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Sempai
Norm has been training various forms of martial arts in his life.
Born in a rough neighborhood and needing to defend himself against
bigotry, he learned early to defend himself.
He spent five years in the Canadian Armed Forces as a signal man with
the engineers. He took a pause to be in the airborne and learned hand
to hand combat. In 1979 he studied Shotokan karate in Alma (Lac
Saint-Jean) for a short period to then go back in the forces. In the
early 80's, Norm studied Kyokushin with Shihan Daniel Gauthier and
Shihan Roman Szyrajew for a short period but due to his busy scheduled
had to stop.
In the 90's, Norm studied Kung Fu (Chow Gar) from Sifu Teddy until the
training center closed.
In 2005, at the age of 46, Norm went back in training at Seishin Dojo
and received his 2nd kyu on May 10, 2008, at the exact date of his 50th
birthday.
Since then, he as been a teaching kids with lower belts (white and
orange), sometimes teaches the advanced teenagers. Mostly, he assists
the teachers in most of the classes. He has coached many of the
students for various tournaments and himself came in 2nd in his first
kata competition in April 2009 performing a 3rd dan kata: Seienchin.
Norm is proud to have founded the precision kata team "Phantoms".
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