Catching Cannonballs: Aussie Jumps into Dutch Training Cauldron

 

International Kickboxer Magazine, Volume 16, Number 2 

Melbourne Heavyweight Jarrod Boyle jumped on a plane at the end of February and headed to Breda, Holland for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – to train at the Golden Glory Gym of K1 stars Semmy Schilt, Stefan Leko and Chalid ‘Die Faust’ Arrab under the auspices of legendary trainers Cor Hemmers and Ramon Dekkers. Here he talks to MICHAEL SCHIAVELLO about life in the cauldron of one of the world’s most successful and toughest gyms.

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Inside Golden Glory, the World’s Number One Dutch Kickboxing Gym

 

International Kickboxer Magazine, Volume 16, Number 3

Australian Heavyweight Jarrod Boyle lives in Breda, Holland, where he trains out of the world-renowned Golden Glory Gym, home to such champions as Semmy Schilt, Errol Zimmerman, Gokhan Saki  and Stefan Leko. In the following story, Jarrod takes us inside a typical Dutch ‘A Class’ training session.

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Combat Sports and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016

“Life after fighting is more scary to me than dying.”

-‘John’ Wayne Parr. 

I sat on the edge of the treatment table at the Albert Park Sports Medicine Center in 2006. I had come to ask Gary Nichols, former physio for the Collingwood Football Club, about a persistent twinge in my knee.

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