Saturday, August 27, 2016
Bash Night
IBF Annual Bash Night
Friday August 16
Swale Martial Arts Club
The Annual Bash started some 40 years ago when Nobby Clarke
6th Dan (1927-1990) was running the Annual Summer Budo Camp at St
Mary’s Bay. The Bash was where originally judoka from all over the Country and
Europe would, on one night of the Summer Camp, challenge each other to a
Contest or, as the Majority would say a Bash. In later years the Bash would be
accompanied by the sounds of Status Quo to get the adrenalin flowing. In 1989
Martin, Nobbys son, took over the Camp, which after many years moved from the
ACF Camp St Mary’s Bay to a new ACF Camp Dibgate Folkestone. About 4 years ago
the ACF stopped hiring out the camp so rather then let the Camp die Martin’s
son John (3rd generations of Clarkes) took over the camp and changed
it to a weekend and held at Swale Martial Arts Club Sittingbourne. The Bash
Night has changed dramatically since the inception it now has other grappling
skills taking part, Judo, Sambo, Kurash, BJJ
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