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Get Your Kids Involved In Canada’s National Sport

In Cornwall there is a house
By Erynn Henry group, but can be competitive players develop their skill, and
league, which is introductory and fun. Turcotte says that this become more comfortable with
erry Turcotte has been a part for anyone wishing to learn the year they are going to host a Fun they game, they can move onto
Tof Cornwall Minor Lacrosse sport and the Cornwall Celtics Day, where other house leagues a competitive level through the
for almost 11 years now and has rep teams, which is for those will be invited to play against various tryouts that are held. The
been acting president for the last already involved in the sport that one another. rep league teams usually take
five years. He is also the head are looking to play a little bit Currently the program is running 15 kids per team. “It gives those

coach for the novice lacrosse more competitively. The Celtics lacrosse “boot camp.” They kids who want to take lacrosse
team, (ages 9 and 10), but says teams do some travelling and have hired staff from local gym to the next level a chance to fi nd
that the local association has competing at other locations as Caveman Strong to come in and that structure of competitiveness
teams for all ages right up to 21 well as an Ontario Championship help the players understand the they’re looking for,” says
years of age with the Cornwall to work towards. The house mechanics and proper techniques Turcotte.
Junior Celtics division. league is strictly an intramural that are part of the game in order He goes on to say that for
to help perfect the players skills those kids who really take the
Karate Komments and pregame preparations. sport seriously, they should
Turcotte gives credit to the consider looking into lacrosse
Benson Centre for helping give scholarships when researching
the sport more exposure, with post-secondary education.
registration ballooning from If you are interested in
last year’s 40 kids to roughly learning more, becoming
By Jim Riddell,
Seaway Karate Club 70 kids in the winter preseason involved or in signing up your
alone. During the summer that kids, you can visit the Cornwall

number rises significantly to Minor Lacrosse website at
approximately 200 kids! “We cornwallminorlacrosse.ca.
artial artists have used pressure points, traditionally known as can credit a lot of it to the facility According to Turcotte, the
MKyushu points in karate for many hundreds of years. The earliest alone for the exposure we get,” Cornwall Minor Lacrosse
known use of pressure points, which for martial arts purposes, is a nerve says Turcotte. Association is always looking
that is close to the surface, dates back to the eleventh century. It has only The winter program and the for volunteers or coaches. “At
been in the past forty or so years that the research and development of house league allow anyone who the end of the day all we need is
police defensive tactics have given martial artists a scientific understanding wants to join in the fun and learn adults there and parents there to

of how pressure points are affected by different types of contact. about Canada’s national sport. As keep the kids structured.”
Of the more than three hundred pressure points on the human body, only
approx. twenty are used, as they are the safest, most practical and easily
accessible. These points have been tactically, medically, and legally,
researched, allowing officers to use a safer, lower level of force.

The use of pressure points is broken down into two distinctive systems:
1) The nerve motor points of the head and neck. Large sensory nerves
which are close to the surface of the skin are targeted. Sensory nerves
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2) The nerve motor points of the arms and legs. These were researched
initially as a safer method of baton use. Instead of striking joints, which Rookie of the Month
most often would cause injury. These areas are surrounded by muscle
mass and saturated with effector nerve tissue, which receives messages
from the brain that allows for muscular control. The only issue that may CMHA
occur when a motor point is struck is a bruising of the affected muscle. Jakob Doth
What makes the system developed by law enforcement appealing to martial

artists is that it is safe, simple and effective means of self-defense. Simple Jakob is a first year novice

is very important, as one of the first things that happens to someone who player playing in the CMHA
is in a position of having to defend themselves is a quick and often steep house league. Jakob is a

spike in heart rate. At 115 heartbeats per minute our fine motor skills lose graduate of the CMHA IP
their effectiveness. A fine motor skill can be described as a skill requiring

hand-eye co-ordination, such as throwing a dart or trying to sink that 20- program and loves getting
foot putt. out on the ice and playing
At 135 beats per minute, our complex motor skills, which are a combination hockey. His favorite position
of fine and gross skills are no longer working well for us. Gross motor is defence. Jakob has

skills, which are largely unaffected by an elevated heart rate are the only demonstrated a commitment
motor skill used in the targeting of pressure points. to working hard and getting
At Seaway Karate pressure points play a large role in self – defense better each time he is on the ice. He has fun going to the rink,
training, and they are one of the most useful set of techniques that I have
encountered in my years in the martial arts. participating and after the game, sharing his experiences with
mom and dad.