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Paul Norman To Fight For Ontario Title

part on his own. This includes
By Jim Riddell
plenty of “old school” drills, lots

n Sunday evening May 18th, of tire flipping, tire dragging, plus
Oat Casino Lac Leamy in some unique exercises using an old

Gatineau, Paul Norman will have fire hose. Much attention is paid to

the biggest fight of his young the core and legs.
kickboxing career. The twenty-four Norman has a saying –“the
year old Norman, who grew up on legs feed the wolf,” stating that a
Highway 43 between Finch and kickboxers legs must be at their best
Avonmore, has been chosen to fight for optimum ring performance. Each

for the vacant Ontario Heavyweight competitor must get eight kicks in
kickboxing title. per round or face disqualification.

In a sport where everything
A graduate of the St. Lawrence

College Pre –service Firefighter happens in milliseconds, having

Training program, Norman, who strong legs late in a fight can be
the determining factor. Beauchamp
has been a member of the Finch
volunteer Fire Dept. for the past says that Norman is a hard worker,
quick learner, very disciplined and
four years, has a goal of becoming a

professional firefighter. A superbly always focused. Theriault agrees,
conditioned multi-dimensional saying that Paul is an easy to work
with natural athlete who takes a
athlete, he has played numerous
sports in the Cornwall area. He has technical approach, is eager to learn
and always asks smart questions.
played hockey, lacrosse, and is a

member of the Ottawa Nationals - Leading up to the fight, sparring

a broomball team that competes at sessions are five rounds each, five
times per week, split between
the Provincial and National level.
Chesterville and Theriault’s Ottawa

It was the fights Norman had South gym.
in lacrosse, which led him into
The intensity level of the
kickboxing. Those fights made him

realize that he had a natural talent sparring builds during those two
months, stopping one week before

for fighting, enjoyed it, and wanted

to take it to the next level. He started the fight. After being deprived of
training at Therien Jiu-jitsu and sparring for seven days, Norman
says it’s great walking to the ring
Kickboxing in Chesterville, under
the direction of the facilities owner with all that built up energy about
to be released – “I’m ready”. He
Norm Beauchamp, an experienced

and successful trainer of amateur participates in the pre-fight stare
kickboxers. Several months later down but doesn’t take it all that
seriously. “I haven’t cheated in my
at the Chesterville Fair, Paul had

his first fight, an exhibition match. training, I’ve followed Norm and

Jean-Yves direction, I’m in fighting
In attendance at this fight card was

one of Beauchamp’s colleagues, shape and I will not be intimidated
the kickboxing legend Jean-Yves Paul Norman is looking forward taking his kickboxing career to the by whoever it is that they put in
next level at the Casino Lac Leamy. Supplied photo. front of me,” says Norman. “The
Theriault, twenty-three-time World
Middleweight champion. Theriault do not count). He did not fight following Theriault’s eight-week eight weeks of intense training,

liked what he saw in Norman, often while attending college, as program, which is designed to have no partying, following a strict diet
offering him the opportunity to fight time management is essential when the fi ghter peak precisely at fi ght –it all becomes worth it when the

on an upcoming card in Gatineau. referee raises my arm.”
committing to that next fight. Once time. Norman attends Beauchamp’s

In 2009 at age nineteen, Paul had that fi ght is agreed to you have to Pro-kick classes for the sport Fight tickets are available at
his first official fight and now has be “all in until the fi nal bell” says specifi c portion of his training, Therien Jiu-jitsu and Kickboxing,

a record of 5-0 (exhibition fights Norman. This means meticously doing the additional conditioning Chesterville, 613-448-1233.

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