Meet the CMAC Dapo Instructors and Assistants—a faculty deeply passionate about the martial arts and our students’ growth through it.
For our faculty, training and teaching are inseparable. Each feeds the other. Our instructors are full-time martial arts professionals who play a vital role in shaping our community as mentors and examples to their students.
CMAC Dapo instructors and assistants form a faculty deeply passionate about the martial arts—its inspiring history, its present impact, and its future evolution. Our philosophy of “the way is in training” propels us to train what we teach, and teach what we train.
Head Director and Chief Instructor, Lead Artist
BasselsJ
BasselsJ
Head Director and Chief Instructor of CMAC Dapo Lead artist, IAMDAPO Welcome! 19 years ago, I built CMAC Dapo with my own hands to be a martial arts school for the refinement of body, mind, and spirit. Now with its faculty, students, parents, families, and alumni, it is also a
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Operations and Instruction
Riezl Samson
Riezl Samson
Credentials Goju Ryu Karate-do - Sandan 3rd degree (CMAC) Goju Kobudo - Nidan 2nd degree (CMAC) Niei chi Level II (CMAC) Arnis Dayang 3 (MATTI/IMAFP) Bio Ms Samson has been training for 14 years under Sensei JRP Bassels. She is the head of operations and also teaches at CMAC
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Instruction and Operations
Haris Shahdin
Haris Shahdin
Credentials Goju Ryu Karate-do - Sandan 3rd degree (CMAC) Goju Kobudo - Nidan 2nd degree (CMAC) Niei Chi Level II (CMAC) Modern Arnis Tapi Tapi - Lakan 1 (IMAFP-MATTI) Bio Haris Shahdin is the Head Instructor and Program Director for karate in Brampton. With nearly a decade of martial arts
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Instructors
James Paradis
James Paradis
Credentials Goju Ryu Karate-do - Shodan 1st degree (CMAC) Modern Arnis Tapi Tapi - Tagasanay 3 (IMAFP-MATTI) Bio Mr Paradis has been training for 10 years at the Dapo, with prior experience in boxing and jujutsu before concentrating on Goju Karate and Modern Arnis under Sensei JRP Bassels. He find…
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Alex Senson
Alex Senson
Bio Mr. Senson has been a committed and serious Goju-ryu karate student for nearly 17 years, under Sensei JRP Bassels and Sensei J Kenney. Martial arts have always been a fascination for him even as a young child where he would follow along to karate VHS tapes and learn to
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Rhys Ralliaram
Rhys Ralliaram
Instructor · CMAC Dapo Credentials Goju Ryu Karate-do - Shodan 1st degree (CMAC) Article by Rhys RalliaramKarate in the Real WorldKarate in the Real WorldI’m an adult now and in university, and I’m seeing more and more how my training has been preparing me for the real world. Convenience
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Roman Gaite
Roman Gaite · Arnis Instructor Biography
Learn more about Mr Roman Gaite, arnis instructor and administrator for CMAC Dapo!
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Teaching Assistants
Ms Mash, Ms Alessia
Teaching Assistants
Teaching Assistants (TAs) Ms. Alessia 1st Kyu (Brown Belt) Ms. Mash 1st Kyu (Brown Belt) Baguhan in Arnis (Yellow Belt) Bio As teaching assistants at the Dapo, they are proud to be able to spend time with the students they teach and the instructors they assist. Ms. Alessia has been
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Youth Teaching Assistants
Kasper, Daniel, Jalen
Youth Teaching Assistants
Our Youth Teaching Assistants (YTAs) are instructors-in-training who assist with the instruction for children’s classes, ages 4–7 and 8–12. At 19 years old and older, they become Teaching Assistants and apprentice as instructors for several years before becoming a full instructor. For those interest…
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