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Welcome to the Lightning Family Martial Arts Website. Lightning Family Martial Arts is a family based Taekwon-Do club focusing on safe, fun, effective martial arts training for kids and adults starting as low as 3 years of age in our Lightning Strikes Pre-School Program, from 8 - 15 years of age in our teen and young adult classes and from 17 to 74 in our Adult Classes. We also offer aerobic classes and cardiovascular intensive training.
Lightning Family Martial Arts is a Member of the Canadian Taekwon-Do Federation International (CTFI) www.ctfi.org and the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) www.tkd-itf.org
August 19, 2008
The Annual LFMA Summer BBQ has now come and gone. It was a great day on the sun and we have the pictures to prove it (thanks to Mike Kehn).
We’ve also added an improved Events calendar to the site which we will be posting all events and class scheduals on. So check back often for all the info.
June 19, 2008
The Annual LFMA Year End Banquet was this past Saturday. All club members were dressed in there finest and had a terrific time. As always the food was excellent as was the evenings entertainment;
The year recap video by Mrs. Howes, which featured a 10 year retrospective of the club in honor of Lightnings 10 year anniversary. Some fantastic old pictures were donated for the video, thanks to everyone for pitching in with some old memories.
And as always the Demo teams all put on a fantastic show! Great pattern technique, breaking, sparring demonstrations and yes, even monkeys! Good job to all the Teams & their captains!
Thanks to everyone who came out, you made it a memorable evening.
June 12, 2008
Mr. & Mrs. Howes, along with Mr. Stevens represented Lightning Family Martial Arts at the recent ITF International Instructors Course in beautiful (and very hot +40C) Oakville Ontario. The ITF Technical Committee, headed by Master Hector Marano, Master Paoblo Trajtenberg and Master Willem Bos, visited Oakville to conduct the 36th ITF International Instructors Course. Participants from across Canada, USA and even 3 participants from Nepal were put to the test as the Technical Committee covered all 24 patterns, self-defence, free sparring tactics as well as various other aspects of Taekwon-Do. ITF President Master Tran Trieu Quan also did a presentation on “Do”.
Among the 114 participants, 60 were 4th Dan and up with an astounding 10 Masters in attendance. On the Saturday evening everyone gathered at the Hotel for a formal dinner banquet in honor of the Technical Committee. In his closing remarks, event host Mike Morningstar thanked everyone for their support as well as the Masters for their efforts around the world to keep the teaching of General Choi Hong Hi alive in its true form.
May 24, 2008
Lightning recently attended a Friendship tournament hosted by Mr. Sanford & Indomitable Spirit Taekwon-Do. Here some shos from the day Special thanks to the photographer Mr. Mike Kehn.
LFMA would like to thank Mr. Sanford, Indomitable Spirit Taekwon-Do & all the volenteers for the invitation and the great time had by the Lightning club.
April 4, 2008
As promised here are a pile of pictures from the 2008 Westerns. Special thanks to the photographer Mr. Mike Kehn for the great shots. Here’s a preview
April 2, 2008
The 2008 Westerns are finished and as always the club did very well. Here are the results & we’ll have some event pic’s up soon.
March 24, 2008
Pictures from Mrs. Howes’s 4th Dan testing are up now in the gallery
March 20, 2008
The 2008 LFMA spring tropical training has come and gone for another year. Have a look at what you missed.
March 14, 2008
The recent Master Pierre Laquerre technical seminar pictures are up.
March 2, 2008
The website is currently undergoing some major construction and we are working at getting everything up and running.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MRS. HOWES IV DAN
Mrs. Sonya Howes successfuly graded for her 4th Degree Black Belt this past weekend under Master Pierre Laquerre VII, CTFI Technical Director, and Master Clint Norman VII Dan, President of the CTFI.
This past weekend LFMA was host to Master Pierre Laquerre for a technical seminar, with special guest Master Clint Norman. The seminar was a tremendous success and we will be posting pictures from the event shortly!
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