Instructor Biography: Ted Truscott

(ttruscott@pacificcoast.net)

• 1972: Shotokan karate

• 1986: Shorin-ji Ryu karate:

  After some time of home training, in 1986 I again looked for a club to practice with, and I met Sensei Doug Mortley of the Victoria Butoku Kai. I had two questions for him that I had learned to ask from my previous sensei, Mr. Lyndon Bateson.

  I asked: "What do you think of kata?" and 'What do you think of tournaments?"

  When Sensei Mortley answered that kata was the heart and soul of karate and that tournaments did not seem to bring out the best qualities that he wished to see in the student so he didn't support them, I joined up and have never been disappointed in that decision.

  Sensei Mortley soon proved to me that Shorin-ji Ryu karate was in fact a superior Ryu in concept and technique. Though I will never equal his awesome fighting ability, nor his prodigious memory for kata, I have much to be thankful for... all my more meani ngful achievements in karate are the result of his efforts on my behalf. This will never change and this is where I publically say, "Thank you, Sensei."

  Under his instruction, I achieved Shodan in the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai and second degree black belt in the Victoria Butoku Kai (dojo level).

Bagua Training:

• 1994: started the study of Bagua Zhang under Andrea Falk of the Victoria Wushu Center. Currently performs the University of Bejing set and the Shanghai set of Jiang Ronquiao and is learning a bagua saber form.

• 1994: started Chinese internal arts applications practice: balance stealing, ghost work, etc., the ultimate in soft style.

Arnis Stick Fighting :

• 1994: became a student of the modern Arnis stick fighting method of Remy Presas.

• Ted is a certified counselor and therapist, and is due to receive the twenty year award for his work as a special care foster parent.

• He has authored the book,Canadian Law: Self Defence and the Martial Artist, is the past editor of Focus Point Martial Arts Magazine and a contributor to the prestigious Canadian Martial Arts Magazine. Currently, T ed has joined the Martial Arts Free Press, (MAFP), as a monthly contributor.