Honour Wrestling Association (HWA) is one step closer to completing its mission of bringing honour back to wrestling. The Association is in partnership with Region C’s Sports and Recreational Department for the exclusive use of the Roodepoort City Hall recreational facility. HWA’s Steve van Eden has been dreaming of a home for his wrestlers, and of including other sporting codes that need a home.
“We want to invite the community, as we will be offering various kinds of martial arts such as pro wrestling with Xterminator, the World Heavyweight Champion leading the training. As a 12-time amateur Springbok champion, I will be teaching grappling, and kickboxing will be offered too. My main goal is to get young children off the couches in front of the television and into the training halls.
“For that to happen we need to make heroes for these children to look up to and admire. We have already started meeting that requirement by being a positive club and being a big wrestling association in central Johannesburg. We’ve done 22 home shows which has slowly brought more and more fans of the sport to us,” he said.
A secondary aim of the HWA is to develop local talent and establish opportunities for them to become international stars in the future. They have thus been targeting schools such as Laerskool Die Ruiter, where a show will be held on 25 March. Various other charity works will be organised to bring the joy and passion of wrestling back to where it belongs – in the community.
“Honour is not just a name to us, we live by it. So we do a lot of charity events – big and small – to assist the community because we are also a part of it. We have our own space which is great and different martial arts on offer to specialise in. We already have talented seven-year-old youngsters training, while our oldest member is 42 years old,” said Steve.
“It’s important to give back to the community that has done so much to support us. The children are our future, and we have to take care of them.”
Anyone interested in becoming fit and healthy or wanting to learn a form of self-defence can contact Steve on 074 932 7520.
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