Learn about CMAC Dapo’s history, present, and commitment to the martial arts. Today its reputation, like its longevity, reflects a deep and abiding dedication to excellence in every area of martial arts teaching and outreach.Our goal is for students and graduates
to explore and build a relationship with their choices, attention, and intention— essentially themselves. The goal of classical martial arts training is to become a more refined, mindful, and attuned person, better suited to managing behaviour and instincts to work in concert with each other, regardless of creed, culture, status, or position.
CMAC Dapo · Mississauga and Brampton
is one of the regions’s leading and oldest martial arts insitutions, with a unique martial arts lineage that dates back to the 5th century. Today its reputation, like its longevity, reflects a deep and abiding commitment to excellence in every area of martial arts teaching and outreach.
As a result of that commitment, our martial arts school enriches Mississauga, Brampton, plus international, national and regional communities in countless ways:
- Through the education of children from kindergarten to high school age
- Providing comprehensive adult programs
- Developing the skills of its instructors
- Sharing martial arts knowledge and cultural resources
- Revolutionary martial art installations
- Collaborating with other martial arts and education professionals
- Publishing outstanding materials for further learning and study
- Providing comprehensive adult programs
- Developing the skills of its instructors
The School is also an immensely diverse institution with in-depth curriculums in karate, kobudo, niei chi, and arnis. It boasts a remarkable range of professional and cultural connections, from China, Okinawa, Japan, and the Philippines in the East, to Greece, Brazil, The United States, and First Nations in the West, and many more growing in Canada, among others.
We are committed to expanding martial arts beyond its limits today to empower students and communities past destructive behaviours towards working in concert for the advancement of humanity.
Our mission
is to provide students tools to self-management through a martial arts education that refines oneself and elevates humankind.
We are driven to
- Educate students about being the best me instrument they can be, in the we orchestra of the world
- Reshape the model of teaching children martial arts
- Refine ourselves through martial arts—create the best version of ourselves
- Interface and collaborate with other leading organizations from around the world
- Establish a relationship to the study of martial arts through art
- Usher in a program that models skills and higher abilities for children to manage the shades of fighting and suffering in schools around the world
Read more about our Vision-Mission and history
Learn about our work for ~20 years
Our Code
We train, teach, and live by the code of the martial artist
Respect
Honour
Integrity
Honesty and sincerity
Heroic courage
Duty and loyalty
Compassion
Policies and Higher-Arching Directives
Codes of Conduct, Instructor Requirements, Black Belt Code, Rules for Students, and more, are outlined in detail and available for reference of anyone interested:
Key Facts
Established
2003
Programs (Taught Weekly)
Karate
Sparring
Kobudo
Arnis
Motto
The way is in training
Locations
Mississauga and Brampton
Ontario, Canada
Various elementary schools and children’s programs across the Greater Toronto Area
Other Services in Addition to Regular Programs
Elementary and high school programs
Professional and executive programs
Private lessons
Seminars
Art workshops
Black belts
62
Admissions (2019 Pre-pandemic)
288 Applications
107 Admits
Alumni and Community
Organizations
International Modern Arnis Federation Philippines
IMAF Philippines was founded by Professor Remy Presas, whose goal was to establish generations of arnis practitioners of all ages dedicated to the practice, promotion, and preservation of arnis in the Philippines and abroad.
The Council of Masters of IMAFP is the safe-keeper of the arnis tradition as well as its guiding spirit. It is this tradition that spurs them to undertake the task of strengthening the classical roots of Modern Arnis.
Grandmaster Bambit Dulay
Chief Instructor for IMAFP
IMAFP Affiliates
Philippines – Headquarters
North America: Canada, USA, Mexico
Asia-Pacific: Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, UAE
South America: Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina
Europe: Germany, Finland, France, Sweden, Russia
Director & Faculty
BasselsJ
President and Head Director
CMAC Dapo
Haris Shahdin
Brampton Director / Sensei
CMAC Dapo Faculty
Mr R Gaite
Mr J Paradis
Mr R. Ralliaram
Ms R Samson
Mr A Senson
Teaching Assistants
Ms M Altaf
Ms A Carbone