Team Smith is considered "One of the
Top Teams in the Country" by many teams
and coaches around the Country.
Our Team traveled just last year to
Chicago Il, Columbus Oh, Gaffney S.C.,
Western Va.,Newark NJ, Richmond Va,
Chesapeake Va, Tampa Fl, and many other
Va. locations. In all those venues Team
Smith Won more Championship Belts or
Gold Medals then all the rest of the
Teams or placed in the top three teams
in each event. To be Nationally
Recognized a Team has to travel. Many
Teams around Va. Beach say they are well
known. Maybe in Va. Beach but around the
Country only Team Smith from Va. Beach
is well known. There are a few other
schools in the area who do well, Team
Poey, Team Linxx, Team Dark from Va.
Beach and Team BlackHawk from
Chesapeake, but none of them traveled as
much as Team Smith. With the Team aspect
in our training we put out Champion
after Champion. Team Smith has been
Kickboxing for over 15 years and over
those years many known Champions have
been produced. Some of the first Team
Smith Champions were Mickey Chambers and
Mike Dresch and Joanne Hamilton. Then
came along Team Smith's Top Team to this
day. These Champions set the benchmark
for the Future Teams. We have always
called it our Top Team over the years
and have tried to produce Teams of the
same caliber for many years since. Those
Champions were: Mikey Holcomb,Amanda
Shiner,Travis Qualls,Charles Baines.
That was a Strong Team with a combined
record of 78 Wins and only 4 Losses
between them. That is not including
their Boxing Records of which all of
them had. Just in Kickboxing
Championships alone they produced 23
Championships. Then came the next Team
of which was another stellar Team.
Christina Monaco,Tony Monaco,Cara
Dickerson,Nelson Lebron,A.J.Schmidt, and
a few othe rs. That leaves us with the
Top Team we have today with such Names
as: Ed Robinson,Jessica Goldyn,Michael
Davenport, Their combined Record Today
is: 27 Wins and 5 losses between them.
We also have another Team on the Horizon
with many new names, the list will
continue to grow and Team Smith will
continue to be a Top Team putting out
Top fighters as long as they keep the
Cutting edge style training. Joe Lewis
(Craig Smith) Coach and instructor says
that 70% of a fight is the conditioning
and the rest is Strength and Technique.
The main focus on Team Smith is
conditioning. A routine training for
Team Smith fighters is a (2) mile run
carrying a backpack with between 7lbs
and 40lbs of weight depending on size of
fighter. Then there is Tire pulling
dragging and flipping. The sprints come
next along with vertical jumping and
individual Tug-of-War and also Team
Tug-of-War. Then comes inside drills
where they gear up and hit bags and
mitts and sparring. Then comes strength
with Rope Climbs and Push-ups and
Crunches. This is what it takes to be a
Top Fighter.
To join Team Smith you need tow things,
Heart and Drive. For More info please
contact us at 757-491-1733 or email us
at
kickingboxing@aol.com