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1/08/2004 5:45am,
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0300southwark/content_objectid=13785838_method=full_siteid=50100 _headline=-Meet-Linda---a-calendar-girl-with-real-attitude-----name_page.html
UNLUCKY opponents often don't know what day of the week it is after clashing with karate expert Linda Marchant.
But they'll have no such problems this year after an inventive photo shoot with the South London master.
Linda teaches at the Institute of Traditional Karate on Brandon Street, Walworth, and was hand-picked to star in a martial arts calendar. She is known among martial arts enthusiasts as an impressive exponent of gojuryu, one of the oldest forms of Okinawan karate.
But this year she will also be "Miss April".
Linda was photographed for Iron and Silk 2004, the first English martial arts calendar to be sold around the world. Linda, 39, of Gilbey Road, Tooting, was picked because she is the highest graded woman in goju-ryu in the country and has been studying the arts since she was 10.
She has many world and European titles to her name, despite also working as a project manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
She said: "I am really honoured to be on the calendar with such magnificent martial artists.
"For me, this is a way of life and we are always looking at ways to get more women interested in getting involved."
The calendar was produced by an English martial arts publishing company, Spirit Bear.
The finished calendar features 12 martial artists from different disciplines, including karate, tae kwon do, kendo, aikido, kung fu and jeet kune do.
To create the calendar, called Spirit, the 12 masters performed in front of photographer Jackie Nickerson.
UNLUCKY opponents often don't know what day of the week it is after clashing with karate expert Linda Marchant.
But they'll have no such problems this year after an inventive photo shoot with the South London master.
Linda teaches at the Institute of Traditional Karate on Brandon Street, Walworth, and was hand-picked to star in a martial arts calendar. She is known among martial arts enthusiasts as an impressive exponent of gojuryu, one of the oldest forms of Okinawan karate.
But this year she will also be "Miss April".
Linda was photographed for Iron and Silk 2004, the first English martial arts calendar to be sold around the world. Linda, 39, of Gilbey Road, Tooting, was picked because she is the highest graded woman in goju-ryu in the country and has been studying the arts since she was 10.
She has many world and European titles to her name, despite also working as a project manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
She said: "I am really honoured to be on the calendar with such magnificent martial artists.
"For me, this is a way of life and we are always looking at ways to get more women interested in getting involved."
The calendar was produced by an English martial arts publishing company, Spirit Bear.
The finished calendar features 12 martial artists from different disciplines, including karate, tae kwon do, kendo, aikido, kung fu and jeet kune do.
To create the calendar, called Spirit, the 12 masters performed in front of photographer Jackie Nickerson.