How Taekwondo Can Help Develop Your Child’s Physical, Mental and Emotional HealthEast York Mirror De Santos Premier Martial Arts in Toronto is one of the leading martial art schools in the province and run by sixth-degree Black Belt Veronica De Santos. In 1999, she became the first woman ever to be inducted into the North American Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
South Slocan’s Dean Siminoff uses Martial Arts to help free modern day slavesA program founded by a South Slocan man – Martial Arts For Justice – had a story written about him in a Coloradob-based news website. The Examiner.com, a media company based in Denver, Colorado, that operates a network of local news websites in USA and Canada, featured Taekwondo master Dean Siminoff in a story about Martial Arts for Justice (MAJ), an annual Break-A-Thon campaign which raises funds to help fight back against slavery and oppression.
Meditation part of the curriculum for kids taking martial artsAt Ekata Training Center in Valencia, a massive mural of martial artist Bruce Lee reinforces the power of marital arts. Ironically, the main theme taught here is peace. “If you look at the warrior perspective of the Samurai, it was to maintain the sense of peacefulness in the eye of the storm,” said owner Ed Monaghan.
Whalley man (74) is martial arts masterTerry, who teaches Japanese martial arts internationally, has just returned from teaching a large group in Prague and is now preparing to teach a course in Wroclaw, Poland. He has practiced martial arts for 64 years and in that time he captained the UK’s first Karate team in 1963 and then spent 21 years in Japan, both studying various martial arts and working for the governing body for Karate.
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