Talented child martial artists have made their stage debut after two years of intensive training.

Team Taurus's unique blend of hip hop, breakdancing and karate was finally unleashed on the public yesterday.

More than 100 people looked on as the group of six- to 12-year-olds performed a spectacular series of dance and fighting moves at the North Wall in Summertown, Oxford.

Sensei Mary Stevens hopes the show will provide a platform for them to become a world-renowned performance act.

Team member Nisha Hare, 11, from Botley said: "I was really nervous before. It was really quite scary, but now I want to do more performing because of the adrenaline rush."

Team Taurus members train every day alone and spend another seven hours a week practising as a group at the Oxford School of Martial Arts base in Kidlington.