last updated JUNE 29th 6pm

Thank you to all our students for training at Reflex. We look forward to helping you achieve your goals! Now with the new floor areas, (Two matted training floors) we have now more classes to offer at convenient times, we’re sure you’ll find a schedule that works for you and your family. Variety of classes of  - 8 Kickboxing, 2 women’s Kickboxing , 6 Kids, 2 Kettle Bell, 2 Boxing, 2 BJJ, 2 Stick fighting , 1 MMA and 1 sparring class. Please check out Class Schedule page!!! 

EZYPAY is available. For only $45.00 a fortnight, includes unlimited Classes! All training classes! Fitness bikes! And Kettle bell training! (Direct debits is automatic, simple and convenient) Join Now

2011 AWARDs

Students of the year 2011: to Shannon Brewer-mccab and Joel Smillie.

KIDS Student of year 2011: to Dylan Ward and Sacha Martin.

Congratulations to 2011 Best achievement to Nicole Quigg, Ryan Hamilton and Max Cranney.

Thank to all Reflex students, Black Belts and Reflex Instructors for training, a great year!

CHRISTMAS BREAK

Closed Sunday 18th December 2011

Re- Open Tuesday 3rd January 2012

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have a wonderful group of people here and your continued support and participation is appreciated. See you back on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012.

NEW CLASS TIME TABLE IN 2012
To view new class time table please click on the Schedule page.

Thank you
Master Dominic Lavalle, 5th degree Black Belt
Master Rosanna Lavalle, 4th degree Black Belt

Congratulations Alyssa Lavalle (10 years old!) for achieving her junior Black Belt

Congratulations Alyssa Lavalle (10 years old!) for achieving her junior Black Belt on Saturday 15th October, 2011 !
We are very proud of you! And you demonstrated great skills!
Well done!

Thai Kickboxing News

2011 - Joel Smillie wining his fight!

2011 Australasian Stick fighting Tournament

REFLEX Stick Fighters Bring Home SIX Gold Medals

Master Dominic Lavalle led a team from the Reflex Martial Arts Centre Wollongong, to the full contact Australasian StickFighting Titles held in South Australia the city of Adelaide, A two day competition on the 11th and 12th JUNE, 2011 Long weekend!

Team Reflex claimed six Gold medals at the Australasian Stickfighting Champions

Congratulations and a great work to:

DOMINIC LAVALLE -
Won the Klulata is with (no amour) gold medal in the men’s division, also won the double stick gold medal and again won in the single stick silver medal!

FELLOW WOLLONGONG REFLEX STUDENTS -

JARON PONCE – Won the single stick gold medal in the boys 15 years to 18 years boys division, also won the double stick gold medal and again won in the Klutata with no amour bronze medal!

PIPPA STEVENSON – Won the Klutata is with no amour gold medal in open weight women’s division also won the single stick silver medal and again won in the double sticks a bronze medal!

JANE TIMBRELL – Won the single stick gold medal in open weight women’s division also won the double sticks silver medal and again won the Klutata is with no amour silver medal!
This was a sport Eskrima – Arnis Titles, and there were male and female categories, with a range of vary age group division.

Events that enable 70 competitors from various associations and backgrounds to come together to stick fight the highest level of professionalism and spirit!!!

Reflex Martial Arts gym got voted the “best Team” of the competitions! I was very proud and so happy!  
There were a lot of experienced fighters at the Stickfighting titles and the Reflex team did the best ever for the history in Reflex Martial Arts Centre with a heap of gold medals won.

10 weeks "training leading up really paid off." Our fitness and techniques was the key! For our wins!
Again Well-done Reflex Team, very proud!

Master Dominic Lavalle
2009 “WORLD CHAMPION STICK FIGHTER”
2011 “Australasian Champion STICK FIGHTER”
2008 “PAN PACFIC CHAMPION STICK FIGHTER”

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INTERCLUB CHALLENGE - SEMI CONTACT TOURNAMENT

Kickboxing – Boxing - BJJ
Saturday 24th September 2011
AT Reflex Centre 32 Auburn St Wollongong
*Competitors check in 3.00pm * Starts at 4.00pm
*Open to all styles and associations. Come and join a fun day for all in a safe, controlled atmosphere, Semi Contact Rules.
Female and Male divisions
All Competitors: $15.00
Excellent medals for all fighters

2011 Reflex grading

Saturday 25th June, Kids at 3pm and Teens / Adults at 4pm
Saturday 17th September, Kids at 3pm and Teens / Adults at 4pm
Friday 9th December , Kids at 6pm and Teens / Adults at 7pm

New Timetable

With our new variety of classes offered at convenient times, we're sure you'll find a schedule that works for you and your family. Black Belt Course and Personal training are available by appointment.
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Reflex Martial Arts Centre - Celebrating 15 Years

Date: Saturday 12th February 3pm - 6pm

Celebration Day includes;

• Sparring demos, Forms demo and more!
• FREE BBQ Lunch and Drinks

Training in Thailand

Master Dominic, Sensei Rosanna, Alyssa and Jake, “Lavalle family” spent Christmas in Thailand training with Sinbi Muay Thai Camp “Phuket” and also at WMC Muay Thai Camp in “Samui”. Both camps have a lot of talented trainers so we enjoyed mixing it up with hard training and holidaying! A great experience for my kids Alyssa 10 and Jake 7 to train and learn Muay Thai, and see the Thai culture.

Coming Up.... Grading 2011

Reflex Kids - Saturday 2nd April 11.30am

Reflex Teens / Adults - Saturday 2nd April 12.30pm

Stick Fighting Doce Pares - Saturday 7th May 10.30am

BJJ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Saturday 4th June 10.30am

Students of year 2010

Adults Class

Aaron Clancy
Jane Timbrell

Teens Class

David Pennimpede

Kids Class

Reece Mardon
Breana Leone

Fighter Award 2010

Joel Smillie

Best Achievement Award 2010

Carmel Hardy
Masyn Corbacho

2010 Christmas Newsletter

THANK YOU to all our students for training throughout the year and for your support! Reflex has had an exciting year and with more great times to come in 2011.

CHRISTMAS PARTY - SATURDAY NIGHT 11th December 7.30pm to 11.30pm.
Come along and have heaps of fun at Mount Kembla Village Hotel for Reflex Students, family & friends. Three awards will be announced for students of the year. Don’t miss out! It will be great to party, drink and dance with everyone. Cost is $30.00 per person includes great food, platters and canapé.   Please place your name and payment at the counter ASAP.

KIDS CHRISTMAS PARTY - Saturday 11th December 12pm to 2.30pm at Wollongong Botanic Gardens. (Murphys Avenue, Keiraville) Three awards will be announced for students of the year. Don’t miss out it will be heaps of fun. Please bring a plate of food and Reflex will provide the drinks! Everybody is invited to come along!

STUDENT OF THE YEAR 2010 presentations at the Christmas party’s!!! This award recognises examples a student sets through attendance, effort, participation, leadership, attitude and respect for all masters, Sensei’s, students, the Reflex Center and the Arts.

REFLEX GRADING   - BJJ Friday November 26th. Reflex Kids Saturday 4th December. Reflex Teens and Adults Thursday 9th December. Congratulations to all students who graded at the end of last term. We are always very impressed with the standard displayed by everyone on grading day!

STICK FIGHTING WORLD TITLES – 2011 in Cebu (Philippines) Students keen to come and compete please let me know soon. I’m going! And looking forward to training and bringing a Reflex team to compete for this world titles! The Dates will be confirmed soon!

FACEBOOK – Join facebook / Reflex Martial Arts for any upcoming news and events.

NEW CLASS IN 2011 – Fight Fit /Circuit Class will be taught at our center, get great cardio and strength fitness. This Class will incorporate a mixture of rope climbing, strength rings, kettle bells, dumbbells, medicine ball and more.  Build up high levels of cardio fitness; Increase your core strength and Improve explosive strength and power! (Days and Times to be confirmed).

INTERCLUB TOURNAMENTS 2010 – Congratulations to all Reflex students that competed. You all did extremely well in fighting and showing your skills!

CONGRATULATIONS – Pippa Stevenson on achieving a Reflex Combative Black Belt! Well done! And also congratulations to Amy Scotland, Chantel Meikle , Jason Chapman and Jo Went promoted to 1st degree black belt.
Junior Black Belts Congratulations Tony Musumeci, Lara Moore and Vince Barila.

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS:  2011 Reflex will celebrate 15 years! We are looking forward to celebrating this special day. It’s Important for everyone to attend students, families and friends! Saturday 12th February Please keep this date free and come along for a great day of Demos, BBQ and Drinks.

Training fees for December – Monthly, EzyPay, 4 months and Private training will be adjusted.

KIDS TRAINING:

End of Term 4         Wednesday 15th December 2010

Start of Term 1       Monday 31st January 2011

CHRISTMAS BREAK - Reflex Center will be Closed on Sunday 19th December 2010

Re- open on Tuesday 4th January 2011

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have a wonderful group of people here and your continued support and participation is appreciated. See you back on Tuesday, January 4th 2011. 
 
Thank you
Master Dominic Lavalle, 5th degree Black Belt                               
Master Rosanna Lavalle, 4th degree Black Belt

GET A GRIP ON FITNESS - Illawara mercury article - JUNE 30 2010

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NAS NSW Club Profile - Reflex Combative Martial Arts

From Article on National All Stars Web Site.

INSTRUCTOR NAME:
Master Dominic Lavalle

STYLE:
REFLEX COMBATIVE MARTIAL ARTS:
The style incorporates kickboxing, boxing, Thai boxing, ground-fighting, Combat Jiu Jitsu and stick fighting skills.

How long have you trained?
I am currently a 5th Degree Black Belt with over twenty years of Martial Arts experience. I have Black Belts in six different styles and disciplines.

Location of club & nights you train?
We are located just a few minutes walk from Wollongong’s CBD,
32 Auburn St Wollongong. Ph: 02 4227 5555.
Reflex centre is open full time, day and night sessions, Monday to Saturday.

How did you find out about the NAS competition?
Through Blitz Magazine, we started competing in NAS Tournaments over 10 years ago with my wife, now a 4th Degree Black Belt, competing as she moved through the lower ranks. She competed for over 4 years and won the following titles:
*1998 Australian Female Black Belt Champion
*1998 NSW State Female Black Belt Champion
*1999 NSW State Female Black Belt Champion

What do you like about the NAS competition?
The challenge of competing against different styles, and it’s very rewarding for kids and adults to be able to show there skills and techniques.

Name some of your up-coming champions from your club and how they are placing in the NAS competition…..
We have a team of 6 kids from ages 6 to 11. My goal is for all our kids competing to do the best they can and achieve their goals of becoming a champion. My son Jake Lavalle, at 6 years of age has a good future in NAS competitions.

What are your future goals for your organisation?
My passion is enjoying training and learning new skills & developing existing ones with my students. Our main goal and reason for existence is not only to create champions of the ring, but champions of the heart.

INTERCLUB CHALLENGE - SEMI CONTACT TOURNAMENT

Saturday October 23rd

AT Reflex Centre 32 Auburn St Wollongong

*Competitors check in 4:40pm * Starts at 5:30pm

*Open to all styles and associations. Come and join a fun day for all in a safe, controlled atmosphere, Semi Contact Rules.

Female and Male divisions
All Competitors: $15.00
Excellent medals for all fighters

REFLEX AWARDS

REFLEX GRADING

2010 Reflex Grading – Kids and Adults

Kids - Saturday 4th December at 11.30am
Adults - Thursday 9th December at 7pm

2010 BJJ grading – All BJJ levels Friday 26th November at 6pm

2011 Stick grading – Early in the year (Day and time will be confirmed)

STICK SEMINAR

SEMINAR IS ON!!! TUES, 4th MAY!!!

DATE: Tuesday 4th May 2010
TIME: 7.00pm to 9.30pm
COST: Participator $80.00
Spectator $20.00

Supreme Grand Master Ciriaco “Cacoy” Canete from Cebu, Philippines, is a world renown legend in the fighting arts community who, at 90 years of age, still travels to personally meet ‘eskrimadors’ and ‘eskrimadoras’, and arnis students the world over, to continue to promote, share, and teach the art his family had bestowed to him.

Accompanied by son Grandmaster Dennis Canete from Cebu and also Grand Master Vince Palumbo from Adelaide S.A.

Cacoy" Cañete is the last surviving member and the only 12th degree black belt and the highest ranking member of the fame Doce Pares Eskrima Club.”
Undefeated in more than 100 death matches, SGM Cacoy is the founder of Eskrido (Eskrima\ integrated with Jiu-Jitsu and Judo) and Pangamot (bare handed defence system). By adding Aikido as “part of the system, [he] revolutionized Doce Pares Eskrima” (Canete, 2009, ‘Eskrima- Arnis Techniques’).

Grand Master Cañete currently holds the following officially recognized Black Belt degrees:

* Eskrima-12th Dan
* Eskrido- 12th Dan
* Pangamot- 10th Dan
* Karate- 6th Dan (USMAA)
* Aikido- 6th Dan (USMAA)
* Juijitsu- 8th Dan (USMAA)
* Judo- 8th Dan (USMAA)

Must have your sticks on the day

At Reflex Martial Arts Centre. 32 Auburn St, Wollongong.

Book Your Spot Now with Master Dominic Lavalle

PHONE: 4227 5555 MOBILE: 0402 010058

REFLEX GRADING

Saturday 27th March. Kids 3.30pm, Teens & Adults 4.30pm.

FIGHT SHOWS

KICKBOXING - Full contact kickboxing competition at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre on the 24th April 2010. A show case of many local kickboxers plus other great tittle bouts. Doors open 6pm, action starts at 7pm. For more information and general ticket sales, Contact the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre.

BOXING – ABA boxing on the 2nd Tuesday of each month! At South Junior leagues Club! Doors open 7pm.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Adults Student of year 2009
Tim Goodwin and Shannon Brewer - McCabe

Kids Student of year 2009
David Pennimpede, Alyssa Lavalle and Antonina Musumeci

Best Achievement & Attends Award 2009
Jeremy Levitski, Naum Dislievski, Dylan Ward and Tex Keeble

Check out the photos from the night.

2009 INTERCLUB TOURAMENT

Semi Contact! Boxing, Kickboxing or Sticks! Saturday 30th May, and Saturday 1st August - 12pm At Reflex martial Arts Centre. Students keen to fight must train in Sparring class 7pm!!! Please place your name at the counter so I can write your name down on the list!
(Next tournaments are at ICMA Academy in Adelaide SA and also Southern Martial Arts in Bomaderry NSW - (confirm dates soon)

REFLEX GRADING 2009 (KIDS & ADULTS)

• April 4th Saturday afternoon
• July 4th Saturday afternoon
• September 24th Thursday night
• December 10th Thursday night

Sticks Doce Pares - Grading for 2009/2010
• March 20th Friday 7.00pm
• Februarys 26th Friday night 7.00pm (2010)

Jiu Jitsu BJJ - Grading for 2009
• March 27th Friday 6.30pm
• August 7th Friday 6.30pm
• December 4th Friday 6.30pm

2009 WORLD STICK FIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Master Dominic Lavalle led a team from the Reflex Martial Arts Centre to the full contact WORLD Cacoy Stick Fight CHAMPIONSHIPS held in Cebu City Philippines, A three day competition on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of April, 2009!

We have “Two World Champions stick fighter From Reflex”

Dominic Lavalle

Jaron Ponce

Congratulations To:

MASTER DOMINIC LAVALLE
won the single stick gold medal in the middleweight men’s division, also won the double stick bronze medal!

SENSEI JARON PONCE
won the double stick gold medal in the under 17 year’s boys division, also won the single stick silver medal!

Also Congratulations To
SENSEI CYD KEEBLE
won the double stick silver medal in the women’s division, also won the single stick bronze medal!

VICKI HECKENBERG
won the single stick silver medal in the women’s division, also won the double stick bronze medal!

JOHN BRACAMONTE
won the double stick silver medal in the men’s heavy weight division, also won the single stick bronze medal!

This was a sport Eskrima – Arnis World championships, and there were male and female categories, plus an over 40's age group division as well.

Events that enable 145 competitors from various associations and backgrounds to come together to stick fight the highest level of professionalism and spirit!!! In total there were representatives from 7 countries including Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, England, America and Poland.

There were a lot of experienced fighters at the world championships and the Reflex team a total of 10 medals "The training leading up really paid off."
Well-done Reflex Team!!!

Adult Students of year 2008
Brad Spears
Jane Timbrell

Best Achievement & Attends Award
Nick Katselos
Brooke Hardy

Kids Students of the Year Award 2008
Rachael Brooker
Tony Musumeci

Kids Best Achievement / Attends Award
Mitchel Gruevski
Jamie Pereria

REFLEX CHRISTMAS PARTY 2009

• Kids and teens - Saturday
- 12th December - 4pm to 6pm
- At Northern Bowl
- $15 per person – includes – game, food & drinks

• Adults - Friday night
- 18th December 7.00pm to 11.30pm
- At Bally Hotel – (upstairs)
- $39 per person – includes – live band and food

Illawarra Mercury Article - Friday May 8th 2009

WOLLONGONG martial arts teacher and player Dominic Lavalle led a successful team from the Reflex Martial Arts Centre to the full contact World Cacoy Stick Fight Championships at Cebu City in the Philippines last month.

Wollongong & Northern Leader Article - July 26 2007

Ring return a winner

PITTING one's self against an opponent is just like riding a bike for Reflex Martial Arts Centre's Rosanna Lavalle.

Lavelle, from Fernhill, recently won a unanimous points decision over Jenny Lau in a full contact Thai kickboxing bout at Manly League Club. The bout was Lavelle's first in eight years.

Lavelle, 33, took a break from competitive bouts to raise her two children and complete her third degree black belt in combative martial arts.

She is no stranger to competition " Lavelle is an Australian Black Belt Champion, and two-time NSW Black Belt Open Martial Arts Champion.

She is training for a bout on October 19 at Dapto Leagues Club under the tutelage of her husband, Dominic Lavalle.

"I was introduced to kickboxing at 17, by Dominic," Lavalle said.

"It was initially for fitness but I wanted to learn more of the art so I started studying Dominic's training style called "?Combative Kickboxing'.

"I started to compete in open martial arts tournaments and challenge other female fighters from different forms of martial arts.

"I competed in over 10 tournaments over 2 years and returned home with either first, second or third place each time."

Lavelle became the first female Combative Kickboxing Black Belt in 1998, after five years' training.

She then won the state and Australian titles and travelled overseas and to train with world champion Peter "?Sugar Foot' Cunningham.

Lavelle also achieved her 1st Dan Black Belt and finished 1998 with two martial arts titles.

Pupil became master in 1997 when Lavelle achieved a Brown Belt. She now teaches self-defence in schools, universities and other centres.

"The passion Dominic and I have for teaching comes from our students," Lavelle said.

"Our art has given many people confidence and a healthier lifestyle that has changed their lives for the better."