Join us as we return to Punch, Kick, Choke, Chat to chat with Sensei Jim “Jake” Maloney, a 10th degree black belt who has been training for over 40 years. Sensei Maloney was the first person in Canada to attain a black belt in Uechi Ryu Karate in 1967. Jim Maloney became interested in Karate and discovered the Mattson Academy of Karate when he was only 16 years old, having moved to Boston, Massachusetts from Nova Scotia, Canada. Sensei Maloney trained and studied alongside some of the most decorated competitors in the sport like Bob Campbell, and was an undefeated New England champion in free fighting and cement breaking competitions from 1967-1973. Sensei Maloney is also an official representative to Okinawa/Japan for Canada in the Uechi Ryu Karate association and has trained more than 16,000 students internationally, as well as trained and developed hundreds of fighting champions on full contact basis. In recent years, Sensei Jim Maloney has organized and operated the first independent, all Aboriginal Training Institute in Canada named the First Nations Tribal Justice Institute. He also developed and taught self–defense programs for the Halifax school for the blind and provided special training for women in self-defense in conjunction with the YWCA, YMCA Helpline and Rape crisis center.