Biography

• Technical Director & President of SKIF of Canada

• 2009 3 Gold medalist, 10th S.K.I.F. World Championships, Athens, Greece

• 2008 Promoted to 8th Dan October 25

• 3-time SKIF Master’s Kata world champion: 1997 in Milan, 2000 in Bali, 2006 in Tokyo

• 2006 Awarded Hanshi rank October 1

• 2004 Passed Hanshi (Grand Master) examination

• 2003-2005 Chairperson for the Technical Committee of Karate Ontario, the governing body for Karate in Ontario

• 2002 & 2003 All-Japan Karate Championship Master’s Division Kata Champion

• 2001 Inducted into Karate Ontario Hall of Fame

• 2000 Tai Chi Chuan Shihan September 9

• 1994 Inducted into the Belleville Sports Hall of Fame