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Students of Ky Moo Kwan, will now start to develop great instructors in order to open to the public and go around to the different areas and work on community service projects like our Master did before us. We are going to try to walk in his foot steps by showing what the martial arts are really about, to help those in need, to be a support group for senior citizens, for women's groups, and to teach teens a few years before they head out to go to university, teaching them about date rape, and many other tragic things that can happen in cities. Swarming, gang violence, and so much more. These kids that grow up here are sheltered from these events. Someone has to teach them the does and don't of how to live when you finally move to the city. Normal things that city people would think of, we don't. Like locking doors, locking the doors of our cars, and making sure to walk or go out with a group of friends, people that can stay to watch the others drinks while dancing, or going to the washroom, always leave someone at the table to make sure no one puts anything in your drink. Also, where, how, and what to do when your car breaks down at night some where in the city. People that do not grow up in cities have to learn these things. And we are just one group that makes sure to do that. One of the greatest teachers in this area that retired recently, was Master James Croy. He worked at Opeongo High School as a science Teacher for his whole career. He taught science by day, and right after school before the kids went home, he would teach a kung fu program, a mixture of self defense, survival techniques when out in the woods. He was such a great teacher that many of the student that have gone on to university have come back to say hello to their favorite teacher. I can tell you he was no push over, and I think that's why the kids liked him so much. He was no nonsense. If the children worked hard for him, did their home work, studied what he taught them, not only for school, but for their kung fu lessons, he gave them back the respect that they earned. The better someone would do, the more praise they received, the worse someone would do, the more help they would receive until they also started to understand. No one was left behind, as you seen with some teachers. If at all you can remember back, those kids at the back of the class that did not care to try, were ignored by most other teachers, Master Croy would sit them down, make sure they understood what would happen if they did not do well right here and now while they were young. To make sure to have that extra education in order to find a great job for their future. That is what was different about Master Croy, he cared about all the kids, not just the good, but the bad too, and in time even the bad became good.

I went a few times to help Master Croy after school with his class of students that stayed after school to learn Martial arts from him. It was amazing to watch their enthusiasm, it was great. They all worked so hard for Master Croy, in turn Master Croy gave them exactly what they needed for life skills no matter where they went in their lives. I am so happy that I went to help Master Croy give his belt tests, and other things, because the experience that I received those days is something that helps me in my teaching to this very day. Right now our classes are very small, and we want it this way because everyone is learning at an excellent pace. We have to have great instructors in order to have the type of school we want, and that is something that will take a few more years, but well worth the wait to do it properly. When we do open, we will then be able to start teaching a senior citizen group as a community service, most probably doing it the same way that Master Fiedler did it when he was teaching them. He never took any money, because they wanted to give him money so badly because they loved his lessons, he finally told them if they would put all the money that they were going to give him for lessons, he would agree to put it all into buying personal alarms for all the seniors, he did this with one of the private women's groups in our area also. What ever a group wants is what we will try to do for them, as this is what the martial arts is all about, to help people. Some day we will also be able to start the classes that Master Fiedler started at Highveiw public school for the grades four and five, gym class. He taught those classes for years and years, and a few students actually liked the classes so much they started at the normal classes downtown where the real kung fu school was. One such student was Sifu Krys van Hoof, who actually turned out to be the highest ranking female student ever in Ky Moo Kwan. She has come such a long way, and is also one of the few that said they were going to start classes when they went to university, and actually did it. Not only did she start classes, she had students that were taught to a very amazing level. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it. Not that I had no faith in her, it's not that at all, it is because of the skill level and enthusiasm of her students, she had them all very excited about the classes. One year Sifu Charles Croy another student that went to university in Toronto, helped teach her students when she had to work out of town for the summer. Sifu Charles Croy took the classes and taught them for the whole summer. Both of these student have done so well, but both are gone. And that is just our luck living in such a small town, most of the students that we train hard end up going to university. They come back for the first couple of summers, training really hard with us, and then as the years go bye, they start to marry, have children, and become professionals in their own lives, they become so busy they no longer have the time they did. We are very proud of all the students that have come up and become such great people.

Thank you

Sifu Dee

Excellent Instructor Sihing Hartlin, always making sure to teach properly and exact, he is a perfectionist, one of the most sincere, helpful, honest, and wonderful people one could meet.

Sifu Dee

Jan. 6th 2005

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