Last month a three nation Martial Arts event was organised in Malta. Kickboxing and Thai Boxing athletes from Malta, Slovakia and the UK met in order to compete with each other in K1 matches.

Terence Cilia was one of the Maltese kickboxers that won his category.

As a Ying Yang Club’s member, Cilia was part of the team that represented Malta, which was the hosting country.

Cilia competed with Scott Richards from the Samurai Fitness and Martial Arts Gym in Manchester, UK. As a Thai Boxing practitioner, Richards has numerous title belts in such discipline. Among them he has the UK title belt and the golden belt in Thai Boxing in his category.

They had a K1 rules match of three rounds of two minutes each round. During the match both Cilia and Richards gave a spectacular show with their techniques. None of them backed down and kept on giving and receiving hit after hit till the end.

The spectators witnessed a balanced match where Richards showed more action and where Cilia reacted with continued hits to the body and to the head. At the end it was a judges’ unanimous decision which gave the victory to Cilia and Malta.

Cilia has been training with Master Noel Mercieca, founder of the Ying Yang Club, for the past 11 years. Cilia has a 3rd Dan Black Belt and since he started his Kickboxing career, he won various titles on international and local level.

In 2008 he even won a boxing match against a British boxer. This year he even won his first World Kickboxing Network (WKN) K1 European title belt.

Another member of the Ying Yang left his mark this year. Daniel ‘The Jet’ Zahra is the first kickboxer who has been nominated forthe Sportsman of the Year event. The Ying Yang Kickboxing Club is even a member of the World Kickboxing Network (WKN).