October 21st, 2011 by wildmed
WildMed are proud to have helped a young Kickboxer “David Watts” from Invercargill realise his dream of going to Macedonia to compete for New Zealand at the Kickboxing World Championships. (Martin and Michelle’s Son)
David says:
As you may or may not be aware Kickboxing is an exciting and challenging sport that has roots as far back as Asia 2000 years ago and can be considered a hybrid martial art formed from the combination of elements of various traditional martial arts. It must also be said that it is certainly alive and well here in our community and throughout New Zealand.
My goal is simple. I plan on being the best that I can be. I believe that, that means not only as a member of the New Zealand Kickboxing team going to Skopje, Macedonia but also as a role model for younger kids and as a contributing member of our community.
This is my dream and with the support of individuals and organizations like WildMed, Kiwis Stat/Aus Stat Medical Recruitment in Christchurch, Frontier Medical in Auckland and other generous sponsors I can succeed.
23-30 October 2011
WAKO World Championships for seniors – Low-Kick, K1-Rules, Light Contact,
Kick-Light
Skopje, Macedonia
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September 28th, 2011 by wildmed
Just back from a four day trip to Deep Cove, Doubtful Sound with my Daughter Amy and her school group. Very isolated and a wonderful wilderness area with great tramps. Got to practice some wilderness medicine too; One cut ear, sprained ankle, sprained knee and one infected insect bite. Oh, and several emotional crises (12 and 13 yr olds!). Martin.
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August 7th, 2011 by admin
Had a great couple of courses in Queenstown in July. The courses did have a bit of a different ‘feel’ about them.
First course was a slightly larger group and the lecturers included a couple of great visitors from the US – with some very real and recent wilderness and austere medical experience. Lovely fresh snow for the practical teaching, was hard work even walking in knee deep soft white stuff. Had one snow ‘virgin’ from Oz who had never seen it before!
Second course smaller and more intimate and perhaps a little more relaxed. Snow was a bit older for the practical teaching but fresh snow on the final day added a real atmosphere to the scenarios (as did a real cold water immersion scenario!). Created a few problems though – blocked roads and closed airports stranded some of our participants in Queenstown. There are definitely worse places to be stuck. Some took advantage with an extra day or two skiing. One instructor (who will remain nameless) was flown out by a helicopter chartered by his hospital such was the chaos caused by the weather!
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