The Ying Yang Club has two new Black Belts. Darren Borg and Kylie Cocker took part in a four-hour exam, under the watchful eye of Kancho Adrian Axisa, founder of the Malta Kickboxing Association (MKBA), and were rewarded with the long awaited and trained for Black Belt.

The exam was held last month, where 28 more students from the Ying Yang Club joined students from two other Kickboxing clubs, one of them from Gozo, to be assessed.

During the exam the students were assessed to be awarded a different coloured belt which represents the level they reached in the Kickboxing discipline. The youngest students were seven years old and the oldest 40. Kylie Cocker, since she is only 13 years old, is now the youngest student in possession of a Black Belt in MKBA.

The Ying Yang students, with their respective Belt colour, that took part in the exam where:

Red: Cyra Demanuele, Martina Demanuele, Mariette Gatt, Clint Chircop, Niko Buhagiar, Therese Scicluna, Steve Farrugia, Marouska Camilleri, Marylee Conti, Matthew Micallef, Claire Tabone, Alan Ellul, Svein Zammit, Erika Gingell Littlejohn, Kurt Grech, Leanitta Ellul, Liane Gatt.

Green: Franco Fenech, Stephen Sant, Moira Delia, Schevone Debono, Annalise Camilleri.

Purple: James Flores.

Brown: Owen Falzon, Jonathan Curmi, Keith Millis, Stephen Cassar.

The Ying Yang Kickboxing Club, under the charge of Master Noel Mercieca, is part of the World Kickboxing Network (WKN), which organises international competitions even on a professional level.

Master Mercieca has even trained a number of his students in Boxing and even represented Malta, also winning an international competition. For more information about the training schedule, one may visit the website www.yingyangkickboxing.tk or contact Master Mercieca on 79208283 or [email protected].