Category: Instructors

Instructors at Okami Kai Martial Arts & Fitness

  • Renshi Wally Blacklock

    Renshi Wally Blacklock

    Karate Instructor

    Wally Blacklock Renshi has studied karate with Okami Kai since 2002. He achieved his Nidan (second degree) black belt rank in June, 2011, and his Sandan (third degree) black belt in June 2014. Through the Okami Kai curriculum and additional seminars and events, he has acquired some ability in aikido, judo and jujitsu.

    He has studied the use of sai, nunchuku, tonfa and bo as weapons. He has completed the On Guard Defense and Control Tactics Training Program becoming a Basic Level instructor. In addition, he is an instructor of the Li’l Dragons Karate program at Okami Kai.

    Sensei Wally Blacklock believes that “perfect” practice makes perfect and that skills are built one on another. He realizes the importance of training seriously and often.

    He has come to fully appreciate this in his work as a psychoeducational therapist and as a student in karate. He works tutoring academics with children and young adults that have fallen behind at school or have developmental disorders and delays.

  • Renshi Dave Boudreau

    Renshi Dave Boudreau

    Karate Instructor

    Born in Scarborough Ontario, Dave Boudreau Sensei started his martial arts training at the age of 18.

    From 1986 to 1992 he trained in Wushu Kung fu and kick boxing at the Canadian Chinese Martial Arts Centre also known as Sun Looug Kung fu in Scarborough with chief instructor Loong Wong. Student of the Hung Luck Kung Fu Club in Toronto. Dave Boudreau Renshi started training in Shotokan Karate in 2000 at Okami Kai. In 2006 he achieved his Shodan (first degree) black belt.

    His son, Jessie, who is the eldest of three children, earned his Shodan rank quickly afterward. Jessie now has his Nidan (second degree) black belt while Boudreau Renshi’s daughter, Rachael is currently working towards her Shodan.

    Boudreau Renshi has since then achieved his Nidan black belt rank which he received in December 2010 his Sandan (third degree) black belt rank in June 2014 and Yondan (forth degree) black belt rank in December 2017.

    Boudreau Renshi presently teaches Youth and Adult classes at Okami Kai under Chief Instructor Scott Campsall Shihan. His future goals include developing his Karate and weapons knowledge and continuing to move up in rank in Karate.

  • Shihan Scott Campsall

    Shihan Scott Campsall

    Chief Instructor (Kaicho)

    Although he has been fascinated with martial arts study for most of his life, Shihan Scott Campsall started seriously training with Hanshi Fred Walker in 1994.

    Five years later, under Hanshi Walker’s guidance, he founded Okami Kai which provides award winning martial arts education to the Uxbridge, Ontario area.

    He now currently trains with 9th degree black belt Hanshi Cezar Borkowski of Northern Karate Schools in Toronto. Under Hanshi Borkowski’s guidance, he is always adapting and evolving his martial arts knowledge to not only further his own development, but the Okami Kai student’s as well. On September 24, 2011, Shihan Scott Campsall was promoted to the rank of Godan (5th degree) black belt in the art of Karate by Hanshi Borkowski accompanied by 10th Degree black belts Masami Tsuruoka, Tetsuhiro Hokama, and Kiyonori Shiroma. He was given the title of Shihan (Master Instructor on May 31, 2015. On March 11, 2017, Hanshi Borkowski promoted Shihan to Rokudan (6th degree) black belt.

    His journey into Yoshinkai Aikido training began in early 2003 under the guidance of 9th degree black belt Hanshi Kevin Blok of Windsor, Ontario. He obtained his Nidan (second degree) black belt in Aikido on August 10, 2017 and has also obtained his Shodan (first degree black belt) in Iaido from Hanshi Blok on May 30, 2015. Shihan Campsall also works as an Instructor Trainer with Hanshi Blok’s company, On Guard International. He has also been certified in Non-Physical Crisis Intervention and as an adjustable baton instructor.

    Shihan says he has never met a martial art he didn’t like and this shows in his persistent desire to learn from the best teachers in the world. The phrase “Kyudo Mugen” means the “pathway of learning never ends”. Shihan not only believes this, he constantly demonstrates it by training every chance he gets.