Sunday, April 25, 2010

FSD Training Day a Success!

Well, as always, this year's event was bigger and better than last year. An amazing turnout, informative workshops and focused participants, what else could you ask for?

With so many things happening all at once it was special for us but also for the students to have an awesome, out of the ordinary Saturday afternoon. A big THANK YOU to the students and people who got involved to make this event a success!

Here are a couple of snapshots from the event. Enjoy!

Sijo Jacques Patenaude on Philosophy and Happiness












Sijo, our founder sharing his philosophies and insights about life, happiness, getting what you want, becoming a leader, and discovering what you were born to do.


Sifu Stephane Patenaude working with Kids














Simultaneously we held our Kung-Fu Olympics for kids and gave out new belt promotions at the event headed by Sifu Stephane Patenaude.


Happy Kung-Fu Kids

























We reserved 2 full gyms for the event, one side kids , one side Adults. The kids said it rocked! Obviously it did!


Sifu Christine Patenaude teachign women how to defend themselves













My sister, Sifu Christine, also had a chance to work one on one with the women of FSD.

Women's Self-Defense and Women's Fitness are 2 of her specialties. No one's going to mess with this group!


Sifu Patrick Marcil Sanshou Sparring Drills


























Sifu Patrick running through our Sanshou Drills. Integrating our Street, No rules Self-Defense System in a sport like Kickboxing was no easy task but with the success of our fighters in various competitions recently, they have shown the transition to be seamless and quite successful.

Fang Shen Do Kung-Fu Olympics for Kids












Events like this are great for kids. A major confidence booster. Offering the right guidance as well as building leadership skills is what real martial arts is all about.


Fang Shen Do Training Day














Seeing so many people take fitness and health so seriously makes me really happy. Mastering the body and mind should be on everyone's priority list.

Sifu Christine Patenaude Warrior Fitness and Women's Self-Defense















With the right instructor learning is fun and informative. Actually doing the techniques is easy and makes you realize "You can do this too!"

Sibok Martin Patenaude Stick Training



























Spending some time teaching elements of the stick through the various ranges and what can be done in each of them opens your mind to the endless possibilities.

Fang Shen Do Grappling Tournament



























The day ended with our Submission Grappling Competition. Some guys fought some tough matches. Congratulations to Mathieu Lemay for Winning the competition!

I'll have other major announcements coming soon about Grappling and upcoming events related to that very shortly, Stay tuned!

There were several hundred pictures, I will upload more in the coming days.

Master Yourself,

Sibok M

P.S. Are you excited just by looking at these pictures? I am. Use that motivation and train extra hard today!


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