Classical Martial Arts Centre

Spécialités

Our school for the martial arts in Mississauga offers classes for children (4 – 8; 9 – 12 years), youth (13 – 17 years), and adults (18 years and up) during the day and evenings. Lessons are offered in karate; tai chi, qi gong, pa kua; kobudo; and arnis (escrima /​kali).

Running for a decade, with a rich history and a foundation in classical values, the Classical Martial Arts Centre (CMAC) Mississauga focuses on hard work, diligent study, and excellence in its instructors and students to create a standard of quality in the martial arts in the city of Mississauga and beyond. Our goal is the student’s health, fitness, and overall wellness, physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, to cope with conflicts that arise in daily life.

We are affiliated, along with twenty other martial arts schools, with one of Canada’s oldest (over thirty years in existence) and largest professional martial arts organizations, Classical Martial Arts Canada.

Historique

Fondé en 2005.

Classical Martial Arts Canada is one of Canada’s oldest (established 1983) and largest professional martial arts organizations, of which CMAC Mississauga is an affiliate of.

Sensei Bassels, director and head instructor of CMAC Mississauga, has been teaching the martial arts professionally since 2003, beginning in St Catharines, Ontario, and later in Mississauga in 2005. He is the head instructor of the Yume Da Po school in Mississauga, both Dai Ichi and Dai Ni schools. He is also the International Modern Arnis Federation-​Philippines representative of Ontario.

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Sensei J. R. P. B.

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«Fighting is not a game to a martial artist; you don’t play life in the same way you play a sport. The most important lessons we learn are realized without applause.»

Throughout his childhood, Sensei Bassels explored instruction in judo, karate, boxing, and wrestling, mostly through various youth and mentor programs in his neighborhood. He presently holds a 4^th degree black belt in GoJu Karate, a 4^th degree in Kobudo, a Laoshi (Instructor Level IV) in the internal energy arts of Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong and Ba Gua Chan, with Classical Martial Arts Canada, and a Dalawa Lakan (2^nd degreeblack belt) in the Filipino Martial Art of Arnis with the International Modern Arnis Federation (IMAF) of the Philippines.

Both as a visual artist and student at the University of Toronto working towards completing degrees in philosophy and anthropology, his goal is to further the benefits and substance of the ever-​evolving study of martial arts.