Jennifer Bustin (Sandan)

 

 

Jennifer is NRKS's most senior student. She acts as the school's Personnel Advisor and teaches the Tuesday night Yoga class.

 

An accomplished professional violinist, she started her Uechi studies in 1990 while in her final year of her undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta. She met Ken playing "The Wizard of Oz" that year in Yellowknife, NWT, and says she was "intrigued when Ken demonstrated his toe-fist by kicking a wall repeatedly."

 

Jennifer leads and manages the Strathcona String Quartet and runs her own private music teaching studio. She practices Yoga, and enjoys cross-country skiing, running and weight lifting. Every chance she gets, Jennifer is out riding her Quarter Horse, Maggie.

 

She lives with Ken and his daughter, Ann, in Edmonton.

 

"Uechi has been good for my confidence,my strength and my back."

Jen puts Ken in his place. "Ok, ok, I'll get a haircut!"

"Look into the technique of using four ounces of energy to control the force of a thousand pounds. Such techniques as these do not depend on brute force to overcome."

Wong Chung-Tua