Teaching martial arts is my passion. I love seeing my students get better at martial arts and I love helping them improve and grow, both physically and personally. I have been teaching karate full time for many years and am now the owner of both the Acadia and Rutland Park Arashi-Do locations.
It is important to me to connect with every student individually. I am a very detail oriented person and I enjoy helping my students work on their skills. There are so many benefits a student gets from martial arts and it is fun to watch students develop. All of our instructors started out as our students and it has been very rewarding to mentor them and help them develop.
I started training martial arts when I was five years old, after telling my mom I wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle when I grew up. After looking around she signed me up for the karate program Kyoshi Mike had just started in Arashi-Do Martial Art’s first dojo in Calgary. I spent much of my youth in the dojo to the point that it almost became a second home with Kyoshi Mike acting as both a role model and father figure in my life.
And, after I graduated from the Electrical Engineering Program at the University of Calgary, I fulfilled my childhood dream (at least in spirit), first by becoming a Karate teacher and then a dojo owner when I took on managing both the Acadia and Rutland Park locations. After a lifetime of training martial arts with Arashi-Do, I can honestly say that it has turned me into the man I am today.
I love my job!