Calgary Counselling Centre

2011 Break the Cycle event going for a World Record

Trudy Fossey

UPDATE September 18, 2011: The AKF Break the Cycle event will be postponed to April 14, 2012. The change of date is due to exciting new developments and early discussions with the Guinness World Record team. Stay tuned to both www.akfbreak.com and www.akfkarate.com for the exciting news as we prepare to be the World Record Holders: most people to break a board. To be on our news list, please submit your email address here.

AKF Karate club is going big for the 2011 Break the Cycle event.

This year, in addition to supporting the event with a donation, we’d like you to participate because we’re going after a world record. Funny thing is, we can’t exactly name the particular world record organization in this newsletter story.

If we:

Get a HUGE number of people in the SAIT gym (including you),

On November 5, 2011,

Have all of those people (especially you) breaking one pine board each, simultaneously, in a single location,

We will be eligible to be the world record holder. Click here to see what world record, in our official news release.

“We’re very excited to pursue this top achievement,” says Richard Fossey, president of the Ohtsuka Amateur Karate Foundation (AKF) and the head instructor of the Karate at SAIT Club. “We want to make this a huge event and we really need you there.”

Participants can be eligible to break a board and be part of the world record event, if they raise a minimum of $100 by Nov. 4, 2011. The donations go to Calgary Counselling Centre’s family violence programming at the Wilson Centre for Domestic Abuse Studies. Click here for more information how you can get on board.

The Break the Cycle event has run for three years and had featured the AKF Karate at SAIT Club demonstrating breaks and karate skills. In three years it has raised over $40,000. Richard and Trudy Fossey decided to partner with Calgary Counselling Centre because of our good fit with AKF’s values. Along with the traditional karate values, students are taught self defense, confidence and not to use violence.

“I loved the past event and am thrilled about this new goal,” says Christine Berry, Director of Family Violence Program, Calgary Counselling Centre. “This is an exciting way to launch Alberta’s Family Violence month. It serves as a reminder to everyone they can play a role in their community to end abuse. This is a cool reminder what each of us can do.”

Calgary Counselling Centre aims to end domestic abuse at its root source and is recognized as a leader in domestic abuse programming and research. Approximately one third of the Centre’s work responds to domestic abuse. Since 1981 the Centre has offered programs to meet the changing needs of our community as well as changing perceptions of treatment for families of domestic violence.

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