HIGH-FLYING and high-tech – that’s the Chok Dee Thai Boxing Club in York, writes Tony Kelly.

Run by former world Thai boxing champion Richard Cadden, the club has meshed burgeoning success with the establishment of its own website.

At a cost of £4,000, Cadden has set up the chokdeeyork.co.uk website.

It will feature reports of his fighters in action across the country as well as regular blog-casts in which he will expand on the salient points of the martial art form from beginners through to mixing it with the masters in Thailand itself.

Said Cadden, who also runs his Star sports mind performance coaching business: “If you don’t use the technology available to you then you are going to get left behind.

“A lot of people don’t really know what Thai boxing is about, so the website will help to get across the merits of the sport from the grassroots through to elite level.”

Latest from the Chok Dee stable to compete were four fighters at a show at Meanwood Working Men’s Club and, but for a dubious decision after a misinterpretation of amateur rules, the club would have celebrated a quartet of triumphs.

The first fight pitched Mat “The Reaper” Reading against Rhys Lloyd from the Tigers gym in West Yorkshire.

Reading dominated from the off and even had his opponent down for a mandatory count of eight. However, when all contemplated a York victory the decision went to Lloyd, whose trainer Gary Sutcliffe immediately agreed to a re-match due to the verdict.

There was no such doubt for the other three Chok Dee warriors.

Charlie “The Tank” Garforth, who had dropped 17 kilograms in weight in just two months to make the fight, was fully vindicated in his commitment when his crisp display yielded an emphatic points victory.

It was a similarly clean outcome for Chok Dee’s Dan “The Mallet” Malarkey, whose technical power brought an eight count in the third round for his opponent, Dean Todd from the North-East-based Soul of Sukhothai Club before wrapping up the triumph after five rounds.

Danny “Lights Out” Harrison-Little had his rival Reece Lambert of the Northern Fightstar club down on the canvas three times before the referee stopped the contest in round three, Little prevailing by a technical knockout.