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Try out day 20 of June 2007
This is a little summary of the first try out day held on june 20th in Claus Event Center, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands.
Most of the participants arrived at 9.30 am in the Event Center.
They came from all over the world because the organization wants to put together the best kick boxing talents in the weight class 75 kg. max.
On this day a team of great judges invited a select group of fighters to train in Thailand under heavy circumstances. During their stay the fighters can show their skills and can be selected to fight in the Amsterdam Arena 2008 and win a super contract of $100,000,-.
Some arrived a little later than others, for example Thomas Hladky from Suisse, he came in when most participants where already changed in to there training gear. He drove all night non stop from Suisse to be part of this great experience. But there where more fighters with different nationalities who came to the try out.
For example fighters came from:
Germany, Belgium, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Mexico, Spain, France, Tsjech Republic, Romania, Italy, Sweden the U.K. and of course the Netherlands.
At 11.00 am everybody was ready and Jeroen Post the host of the show introduced all the judges and trainers to the participants who where standing in the two boxing rings where all the training sessions took place.
The trainers where:
- Mike Passenier from Mike’s Gym; Trainer of Melvin Manhoef, Joerie Mes and many other great fighters.
- Sahin Kaas Yakut; Champion of the It’s Showtime Trophy 75 max 2006.
- Dennis Krauweel; Trainer of great fighters like Alviar Lima en Albert Kraus.
- Dennis Schneider; Assistant-trainer of for instance Gago Drago.
The judges where:
- Edwin van Os; Owner of Gym Alkmaar, manager, promoter and co-owner of SuperproSamui.
- Simon Rutz; Promoter of the It’s Showtime Amsterdam Arena events
& It’s Showtime trophy 75 max. - Lucia Rijker; World champion boxing, kick boxing and actress.
After the introduction Mike divided the fighters in groups and explained what was expected of the fighters during the training session. The training session started with a warm up, shadow boxing, hitting on pads an the last exercise was sparring 3 times 1,5 minute.
After the training sessions the judges had to come together and decide who had to leave in the first elimination round. This was very hard for some fighters as well for the judges. The level of the future great fighters is very high and that gave the judges a very hard time to make their decisions.
And this was only the first elimination round!
After lunch the trainers put the training session into a higher level so the judges could start with the difficult task to send some other fighters home. The contenders had to do a heavy condition training. After that they had to fight against an opponent.
In the mean time the judges where very busy to discus which contenders could be invited to train in Thailand and make change to fight in the Amsterdam Arena 2008 and win the super contract of 100.000 dollar.
At 22.00 pm the judges came to the final decisions and invited 15 fighters to come to Thailand. In Thailand there will also be a try out event, on wich day the other 7 fighters will be invited to the training camp and have a opportunity to go for the Super contract!
For the developments of these fighters watch the It’s Showtime Reality Show on Eurosport starting in December 2007 and before that time visit the web site.
Martial Arts Productions Europe
(for more pictures go to gallery)
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| The selected Fighters (click for more info)
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