about us
Over the past 37 years of training in different martial arts and fighting disciplines I have discovered one thing we all have in common! You can have all the knowledge and physical skills but if you don’t have the ability to flip the switch to become the warrior, you will never survive that part of reality. If you would ever have to defend yourself or love ones! These days as an instructor we have to be able to give answers for a lot if problems that may occur from personal protection.

As a martial artist who is almost fifty years old, things have become more important to me now that they did in my twenty’s and teens. I realize that meditation is good and essential for our mental health and training and running our Kata’s our good for our physical being.

I do believe that personal safety is 90% mental and 10% physical because knowing and understanding our surrounding are mental preparation and most physical confrontations last seconds. So by that standard thinking is one of the most important aspect of our survival and physical is what we mentally had to think up, and draw a game plan and be able to effectively put it in motion for our survive.

Mental preparation is the key to stay out of trouble and if we can’t avoid the trouble then you have to be able to apply the physical training that we have prepared ourselves for. We must remember that when we were in the military that we trained for the time to fight and a lot of soldiers do not fight because they want to, they fight because of a cause of somebody else.

Can we ever be prepared to fight? The answer is “yes”, but it can be hard and a task to flip the switch until we are forced to or die trying.

As we prepared ourselves mentally and physically for a future that we don’t know anything about. I can tell you that I look forward to getting older and staying mentally and physically fit as I possibly can because of the next phase of my life. I personally look forward to running kata and youth.

If we believe in our karate as a way of life, we must embrace all of the phase that we will go through to truly master the way of life that it brings us too. We can never prepare for what might come our way mentally our physically, for this reason I believe that we must study.
 
Mr. Stephen A. St.Pierre
8th Dan, Kyoshi
Internationally Certified Master Instructor

Mr. St.Pierre has trained and studied in several traditional and non-traditional forms of combative fighting systems. He has dedicated the past four decades to research and developing his martial arts skills.

• Shaolin Chuan Fa / 8th level Black Sash – Grand Master C. Y. Tsai
• Goju-Ryu Kenpo / 6th Dan Black Belt – Miyazato Eiiko, Sensei
• Kajukenpo Karate / 1st Dan Black Belt – Master Robert Penny
• Shiho Karano Jujitsu / 1st Dan Black Belt – Dr. Clement Reidner

Awards:

Mr. St.Pierre over the past 32 years has made his mark in sport karate and professional kickboxing, competing on a state, regional and national level.

• 3 time – Wisconsin Lt. Wt. State champion
• U.S.K.A. National Lt. Wt. Champion
• W.A.K.O. National Lt. Wt. Champion
• Professional Kickboxing Career (21 – 6 – 18 KO’s)
• Assistant Coach of the USA Koushu Team

He has placed in over 100 tournaments over the past three decades of competition.

Experience:

Master St.Pierre began teaching and working as a professional protection specialist in 1974. He has taught martial arts professionally for over 30 years to countless adults and children. Many law enforcement and personal protection specialist have adapted his IFS. He has trained a lot of state, national and world champions in full-contact and sport karate. Mr. St.Pierre conducts seminars in personal awareness, child safety, and women’s defense, as well as stress management through Qigong exercise. He has been featured on local television and in newspaper and national magazines. Through these forms of media he has gained recognition as leading authority in personal safety and martial arts. Mr. St.Pierre possesses the knowledge and mastery to teach all those who have the willingness to learn. He now offers a number of different programs to suit everyone’s needs and to improve their physical health and mental growth through karate-do.

 

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