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Pivot Point Martial Arts BY PETER HINTERMAN PHOTOS PROVIDED BY PIVOT POINT MARTIAL ARTS DESTINY

South Korea, in Seoul and in GyeongJu, in Canada and across the United States. He has taught side-by-side with Kuk Sool martial arts founder and Grand Master, Hyuk Suh. But of all his accomplishments and ac colades, the one that means the most to him is obtaining the title of Kwan Jahng Nim which gives him the ability to correct – to teach. at, and his unwavering faith, gives him true purpose. “Teaching and working with

my students are in the wind for me to do,” he smiles. “I feel it is my calling in life from God.My goal is to help people change their destiny in a way they are proud of.” Master Wright started in the world of martial arts at around the age of two after watching a Bruce Lee movie. “My parents told me that I was kicking and chop ping all over the place,” he laughs. When he was in the second grade, they enrolled him in Tang Soo Do, but that didn’t last. “My family could no longer aŽord it,” he remembers. e spark for the art never left him, so when a school for Kuk Sool opened in Burton years later,Wright again asked his parents to enroll him. “My father asked me to show him what I had learned years ago in Tang Soo Do,” he says. “I showed him everything.

He agreed that I could try Kuk Sool.” In 1995, Master Wright started down a path he continues to walk today. In 2001, his instructor, Brian Lingenfelter, was looking to move out of the busi ness. At 19, Wright bought the business and operated it on a part-time basis. “In 2010, I felt a calling to open the business full time and I quit my regular job,” he explains. “ at summer, I immediately gained 20 new students and before I knew it, I was up to 35 and needed a bigger space.” Master Wright then moved to his current location on the corner of Davison and Belsay Roads. Today, Pivot Point Martial Arts has more than 90 students of diŽerent ages and backgrounds with the collective purpose of improving their lives, their disciplines and futures. 

A 15-time World Kuk Sool Asso ciation (WSKA) Grand Cham pion and 5th Degree Black Belt (Master), Kenneth Wright has traveled the world practicing and honing his art. He has trained at the Baek Dam Sa Temple in

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MASTER WRIGHT RECEIVES AN AWARD FROM GRAND MASTER HYUK SUH.

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