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HE IS KNOWN as the first promoter to promote a world title fight right here in Guyana while he formed Holland Enterprise Promotions and later gave boxing fans two editions of Caribbean Fury which saw Guyana’s Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred defeat Corrine Van Ryck De Groot. However, Carwyn Holland was Missing In Action (MIA) from the boxing scene for a while, even though he was present at ringside, when Clive Atwell stopped Prince Lee Isidore to take the World Boxing Council/Caribbean Boxing Federation (WBC/CABOFE) light welterweight title at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last October.
The reason for Holland’s absence from the promotion business was disclosed in a Press release last Tuesday, stating that Holland had added new certification to his growing repertoire.
For the last three years, Holland has been busy honing his skills away from the boxing business, since he was engaged in other forms of combat sport such as Wado-Ryu Karate and most recently Combat SAMBO, which is a modern martial art and self-defence system developed in the Soviet Union.
Holland successfully completed the International Certification Course for Sport and Combat SAMBO Instructors administered by the International Amateur SAMBO Federation with headquarters in Switzerland.
SAMBO the acronym which means ‘self-defence without a weapon’ in Russian, harmoniously incorporates lots of elements such as Japanese judo, ‘jiu-jitsu’, Armenian Koch, Georgian Chidaoba, Moldovan Trinta, Tatar Koras, Uzbek Kurash, Mongolian Khapsagay and Azerbaijani Gulesh.
Dr Andrew Moshanov, the Head of Development for Federation International Amateur de Sambo (FIAS), recently conducted the workshop with the purpose of developing the sport worldwide with particular interest in the Caribbean and Holland was one of the participants.
The successful Holland who received his accreditation at the end of the workshop, intends to develop a five-year plan with the intention of seeing the sport introduced and spread all across Guyana since it is expected to be the next Olympic Sport and Guyana is rich with talent.
He stated that SAMBO is the ideal self-defence art for those working in the security services, in particular the Police Force as it will reduce the use of extreme force when dealing with civilians, adding that it is also geared towards the overall development of a person and is not only useful in self-defence, but also in situations where a person may need to brace themselves from falling.
Holland noted that over the next few months SAMBO will be introduced to martial arts clubs and he will be paying much emphasis on the FIAS base programme “How to Fall Safely”.
He recently qualified to represent Guyana at the upcoming Pan Am Games in Panama but subsequently injured his back and will not be able to compete, but in true sportsmanlike fashion, selected Paul Ignatius of the Harpy Eagles Club to take his place on the team, even though he will be present at the Games in an official capacity.
The reason for Holland’s absence from the promotion business was disclosed in a Press release last Tuesday, stating that Holland had added new certification to his growing repertoire.
For the last three years, Holland has been busy honing his skills away from the boxing business, since he was engaged in other forms of combat sport such as Wado-Ryu Karate and most recently Combat SAMBO, which is a modern martial art and self-defence system developed in the Soviet Union.
Holland successfully completed the International Certification Course for Sport and Combat SAMBO Instructors administered by the International Amateur SAMBO Federation with headquarters in Switzerland.
SAMBO the acronym which means ‘self-defence without a weapon’ in Russian, harmoniously incorporates lots of elements such as Japanese judo, ‘jiu-jitsu’, Armenian Koch, Georgian Chidaoba, Moldovan Trinta, Tatar Koras, Uzbek Kurash, Mongolian Khapsagay and Azerbaijani Gulesh.
Dr Andrew Moshanov, the Head of Development for Federation International Amateur de Sambo (FIAS), recently conducted the workshop with the purpose of developing the sport worldwide with particular interest in the Caribbean and Holland was one of the participants.
The successful Holland who received his accreditation at the end of the workshop, intends to develop a five-year plan with the intention of seeing the sport introduced and spread all across Guyana since it is expected to be the next Olympic Sport and Guyana is rich with talent.
He stated that SAMBO is the ideal self-defence art for those working in the security services, in particular the Police Force as it will reduce the use of extreme force when dealing with civilians, adding that it is also geared towards the overall development of a person and is not only useful in self-defence, but also in situations where a person may need to brace themselves from falling.
Holland noted that over the next few months SAMBO will be introduced to martial arts clubs and he will be paying much emphasis on the FIAS base programme “How to Fall Safely”.
He recently qualified to represent Guyana at the upcoming Pan Am Games in Panama but subsequently injured his back and will not be able to compete, but in true sportsmanlike fashion, selected Paul Ignatius of the Harpy Eagles Club to take his place on the team, even though he will be present at the Games in an official capacity.
