About Me
| Terry Hill |
| Hamilton |
Terry Hill has over 42 years of experience in the Martial Arts and has trained and competed successfully in many different Martial Arts and Fighting Sports.
His training commenced in the Kyokushinkai style of Karate back in the early seventies and moved into Goju Ryu Karate in 1977. In 1978 Terry took up Boxing, then in 1979 he started to train in Kickboxing, moving into Olympic free style wrestling in 1988, while also training in Traditional Karate-Do. During his many years of training Terry has competed successfully in various Fighting Sports. In 1989 Terry placed 2nd in the National Amateur Wrestling Championships (under 90 kg division).
He also held the New Zealand Provincial (Taranaki) Light Middle Weight Amateur Boxing title (which he won in 1979)- Terry has held a variety of Amateur and Professional national Kickboxing titles, and won International Muay Thai honours against the Thais (in 1989-1990). At this same time Terry won three consecutive National Goju Ryu Karate Kumite titles and the First National Goju Ryu Full Contact title in 1991. Terry also won the first N.K.F. (National Karate Federation) Championships in both Kata and Kumite in 1988.
One of the highlights of Terry's Combative career was winning the last NZ Open Full Contact Martial Arts Championship Tournament ( the forerunner to MMA/NHB Competition) in 1985 and then going on to capture the 1st World Full Contact Goju Ryu Karate title (Heavyweight division) in Okinawa, Japan in 1991.
Along with Terry's tournament success he has established himself as a leading coach and trainer in Karate, Kickboxing Sanda and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Terry has produced numerous Champion fighters in all these disciplines over the years. Most notably in Karate, Terry has produced a number of Iri Kumi (full contact fighting) Champions. There have also been other numerous champion competitors in Shiai Shobu (Point Fighting) and Kata.
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