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Filipino Martial Arts is a passion of mine. I have trained in Arnis since the 1990s and have had the opportunity to teach it not only here in Canada but

My sister was a rising Jazz musician struggling to make her way. Something about this struggle intrigued me; there was passive fighting merit to the musicians I met at her

The context of fighting as a medium had become most familiar at this point, though I could not speak to it. My frustration grew until depression set in, and so

The Jazz scene in Toronto grew as an interest that began as a way to bring attention to it and my sister, and what quickly became a metaphor of the

I saw martial arts like the black crayon that helps people understand something that at first appears distorted, a way of providing texture to the contours of a large feature