Wed, Sept 30 /15 Kangeiko dojo Decarie Square M Fitness 6900 Decarie 2nd floor, Montreal Entrance from underground parking garage. 6:00-7:00 Black Belts Adults only Francois Gelinas, 6th Dan Melarie Taylor, 5th Dan 514 735 4389 Wed, Sept 30 /15 Westmount JKA Westmount Community center 4675 St Catherine st. w Westmount, H3Z 1S4 18:45-19:45 All Levels All ages Ashraf Ismail, 4th Dan David Pinchuk, 4th Dan Rosanna Eugeni, 3rd Dan rosanna@westmountjka.com 514 941 1962 (David) Thurs, Oct 1/15 Kirkland JKA Kirkland arena 16950 Hymus Kirkland, H9H 3W7 18:00-19:00 19:00-20:00 All levels Green-black All ages Mark Deschatelets, 5th Dan 514 214 7180 Angelo Massotti, 5th Dan 514 299 6354 Fri, Oct 2/15 Côte St Luc JKA West End Gym 7025 Côte St Luc rd Downstairs 18:00-19:00 19:00-20:00 20:00-21:00 Yellow- Green Blue-brown belts All ages Stacy Ungar, 5th Dan 514 487 7839 Sat, Oct 3/15 Nuns’ Island JKA 300 chemin du Golf Nuns’ Island H9J 4c3 10h00-11h00 11h00-12h00 All levels Brown – Black All ages Sharhokh Hoghooghi, 6th Dan 514 909 9089 Sun, Oct 4/15 Notre Dame du Laus JKA Sakurai Dojo 4 rue de l eglise -12h00 All Levels. All ages Mark Deschatelets, 5th Dan 819 767 2893
Ungar, 5th Dan Ashraf Ismail, 4th Dan Dave Pinchuk, 4th Dan Rosanna Eugeni, 3rd Dan The following is a biography prepared by one of Sensei Don’s students. My Instructor, Don Sharp Many of us know how lucky we are to be training with Sensei Don sharp, because of his great teaching ability, his character, his enthusiasm and tremendous expertise of our art…. But I think many of our members have no clue how truly accomplished our instructor is. Don Sharp being so modest we just don’t often hear of his own accomplishments. So I am writing this biography in hopes that our members will know a little more of our instructor and really get a feel for how fortunate we are. Don started training in JUDO at the age of 9. He had already fallen in love with the martial arts and that was his option at the time. He trained very hard and even at that age was noticed by his Sensei’s , Ken Earhart and Dave Jones. Unfortunately the club folded after Don had trained there for a couple of years and had gotten his 3rd Kyu. He continued training under Ken Earhart and still keeps a relationship with Mr. Earhart to this day, over 30 years later. Don saw a Karate club training at the local “Y” and was instantly captured!!! He started right way, under his first Sensei Rob Gale. He trained hard and got to 4th kyu very quickly for a young boy, and then he met Sakurai Sensei!!! Don still talks about that first meeting and training with Sakurai Sensei as a remarkable time of his life and eye opener on what martial arts had to offer. Not just how to kick and punch, but a way of life, a balance of physical, mental, technical and even spiritual way of developing ones growth. He continued to train under Rob Gale until Sensei Rob Gale turned to Don and asked him if he would take over the Dojo! He was only 18 at the time and had just passed his Shodan a couple of months before under Nishiyama Sensei and Sakurai Sensei. He, of course accepted and he then became the chief instructor of the club. He knew he needed to continue his training as much as he had always even though he was now responsible for teaching the members of the club, so he would drive to Abbotsford to train with Rob Sidoli and all the way to to train with Sakurai Sensei. He would always