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| Mitra Castano Owner/Program director |
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| Mitra Castano Owner/kick boxing instructor/Jim Wagner's certified level one R.B.P.P. instructor and his only DIRECTOR in Canada |
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On January 26, 2009 Mitra Castano was appointed Directorship of the Jim Wagner Reality Based Personal Protection system in all of Canada. Mitra Castano is proud to announce that she is now the one and only female director of Mr. Wagner's R.B.P.P. system in the world.
Mitra Castano,
Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
Coordinator of Canada
Headquarters: Surrey, B.C.
School Name: Triunity Martial Arts Studios
Website: www.triunitymartialarts.com
Email: triunitymartialarts@telus.net
Phone: 778 578 0088
Mitra Castano is the direct representative of Jim Wagner and the Reality-Based Personal Protection system in English speaking Canada. When Jim Wagner personally teaches in English speaking Canada it is organized through Mitra Castano exclusively. For those organizations wishing authentic specialized seminars or courses (organizations such as bodyguard schools, hospitals, security agencies, airlines, etc.) taught by Jim Wagner must inquire through Mitra Castano. All official Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection merchandize (Jim Wagner T-shirts, DVDs, books, etc.) can be ordered from the United States, Irvine location. If you have any questions you may contact our world headquarters at info@jimwagnerrealitybased.com
MITRA CASTANO
First female in a leadership position for Reality-Based
Mitra Castano was born in Shawrude Iran, and escaped in the late 1970s when the Islamic revolution started. The family packed one suitcase between five of them and left for Bangkok, Thailand never to see their home land ever again. Mitra’s family lived in Thailand for about four years as refugees, and then moved to Canada as immigrants in the early 1980s. Her Father wanted her to change her name to a Christian name, but even then, at a young age, she fought for things that were important to her, and fought to keep her given name to retain her heritage. Reflecting back Mitra said, “I guess you could say that because of my past, and having experienced many things starting from the age of 12, I became some what of a fighter and survivor. I fought to adapt and to fit in with my new surroundings. It was not an easy transition from my own culture and then to the Thai culture, and then again to the Westernized way of thinking. Yet I learned to live and cope in Canada.”
| Five years ago Mitra embraced the martial arts and made it a way of life. The positive change that it had made in her own children’s lives was more than enough to convince her that this was an important investment. When her then instructor left the school that they were originally members of, Mitra and many others left as well. She soon realized that they needed their own place to train, and her then instructor was out of a teaching position, needed a place to teach, so Mitra offered her garage where they ended up training for many months. Through the heat of summer and the cold of winter, kids from all over came to train at this location. It was no frills, and no belts, but just hard training and a passion to learn the martial arts.
The "Garage School" kept growing and Mitra realized that they needed a bigger space to train in. The idea of starting a school called Triunity Martial Arts Studios was conceived and it wasn’t long until all of the “garage orphans” would have a fully equipped place to train, sweat, and have fun. They finally had a place they could call home Triunity Martial Arts Studios.
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According to Mitra, “I found out about Jim Wagner's Reality Personal Protection courses that he was teaching in Surrey in August 2007. I could only commit to one class but after that one class, I was hooked and wanted more. I contacted Dallas Johnson, the Reality-Based Director in Canada at the time, and invited Jim to come to our school and teach his Level 1 courses at Triunity Martial Arts Studios. Then, in January of 2008 I became the first certified Reality-Based Personal Protection female in Canada.”
Several months after the Level 1 courses Dallas Johnson resigned his position as director in order to move down to Brazil to start a new business with his wife. He had been going down there for a few summers, and they fell in love with the place. Shortly after that Mitra’s business partner dissolved the partnership and moved on. These events were behind the motivation for Mitra to shift to the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system and to continue hosting Jim Wagner at her school. On June 19, 2008 Mitra Castano officially became the Reality-Based Personal Protection Coordinator of English speaking Canada.
Besides hosting Jim Wagner Level 1 and Level 2 courses, Mitra has a strong desire to teach the Women’s Survival courses. She said, “I am thrilled to be the first and only female Reality-Based Personal Protection instructor in all of Canada. My goals with respect to self defense for women, through the knowledge that I have gained through my training with Jim Wagner, is to provide a Women’s Survival at our school. Much needed attention needs to be paid to women's safety, especially after the unfortunate tragedy of the brutal, violent and senseless acts that resulted in the death of a young realtor in this area, Lyndsay Buziak, just a short time ago. Women need to be more aware of their surroundings, and not just on a physical level but we also need to pay more attention to our "inner voice". Once we have created the awareness in the women in our community on the importance of "women's safety", and how a few simple Reality-Based self-defense tactics could ultimately help save their lives, we will then provide them with the physical and the mental tools they will need in order to act, and therefore react, in any and all life threatening situations. In Jim Wagner's words, ‘it should not take a student years to learn self- defense, it should only take days.’"
Jim Wagner will be teaching his Level 1 courses (Defensive Tactics, Ground Survival, Knife Survival, Crime Survival and Terrorism Survival at Triunity Martial Arts Studios from August 17- 22, 2009. For more information and registration of these workshops please contact Mitra at 778-578-0088.
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| Sensei Ivan Ugarte Del Aguila. Sensei Ivan is Guatemala's first and only Level one certified R.B.P.P. instructor in the Jim Wagner system. |
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A BLACK BELT IS A WHITE BELT THAT NEVER GAVE UP!
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HEAD INSTRUCTOR
Sensei Ivan Ugarte Del Aguila
*Third degree black belt in Hawaiian Kenpo Karate
(18 years experience)
*Low black in WTF Tae Kwon Do.
*Recognized Black Belt in Sport Kickboxing
Sensei Daniel Ivan Ugarte del Aguila, was born in Guatemala City in 1983. He started learning Hawaiian Kenpo Karate at the age of 7 under siblings Sensei Jorge Castillo and Sensei Ivan Castillo who are both multiple world champions in sparring and kata (form) and run one of the most prestigious and successful Martial Arts schools in Guatemala.
Sensei Ivan belongs to a family of Martial Artists. His grandparents, mother, uncles and cousins have all practiced the art. His grandfather Sensei Cesar del Aguila holds a 3rd degree black belt in Hawaiian Kenpo Karate and a Cho Dan Bo (low black belt) in WTF Tae Kwon Do, to this day he still trains and teaches.
Sensei Ivan started competing in tournaments at the age of 8 and won many national and international first place trophies in both kata and sparring. Sensei Ivan fulfilled one of his dreams at the age of 15 when he was awarded his black belt in Hawaiian Kenpo Karate.
He moved to Calgary, Alberta in 2001 and started learning Tae Kwon Do under Master Yoon Sang Ha, owner of Kee’s Tae Kwon Do Calgary, where he reached the rank of Cho Dan Bo along with his grandfather. In 2005 Sensei Ivan followed his other passion in life… videogames. He moved to Burnaby, British Columbia to attend the Art Institute of Burnaby where he graduated with a diploma in Game Art & Design.
During his time in college, he started learning Kickboxing under Sensei Cory Wachal owner of Cobra Kai; eventually making his move to Kikara Martial Arts where he worked as an instructor in the Newton location.
Having heard of Triunity Martial Arts Studios, he came to observe the school and fell in love with its people. He was given the opportunity to join the Triunity family as a Head Instructor. Sensei Daniel Ivan has professionally brought the art of Hawaiian Kenpo for the first time to Canada.
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