Bill Conley aka: Hanshi/Sifu C

Bill Conley, Group Senior head Instructor
aKa Hanshi/Sifu C
Bill Conley
Conley's Martial Arts
Group Senior head Instructor: St Stephen-St andrews-BLACKS HARBOUR, NB and in calais, ME Karate Dojos/Schools and TaijiChuan kwoons/Schools
Head Instructor for the Private lionsheart preemptive personal protection system

"Maintain good attendance and give your best effort consistently. In short order, that is the formula to progressing and doing well in the Shurikan Kenpo Karate Dojos System and Organization. Most of all, understand that there is, and should be, nothing free in Life! Definitely not in my Dojos! I don't give Participation Awards for just having two feet and a heartbeat. My students and staff will frequently (quite) hear me say,
Own it - Earn It!" And further to that, regarding life and society today, I also frequently say, "Step Up, or be Stepped On!"

Remember our Dojo Creed: There are two paths one can take in the martial arts: Make excuses, or make the effort. The first will eventually only lead you to the exit door. The latter will lead you to many rewards in your martial arts, and life.

Bill Conley, Group Senior Head Instructor
8th Degree Black Belt
Over 40 yrs of martial arts experience

"Our victories propels us, but it is our defeats that most defines us."
- Hanshi C

Hanshi Bill Conley

Bill Conley, 8th Dan/Hanshi, Shurikan Kenpo Karate

Someone's getting "the look," with the index finger! LOL!

Hanshi Bill Conley with his wife of over 33 yrs, Kelly.

Conley, The Fistslinger/Strikist

Conley, Fistslinger PT II The Sequel

“Sometimes you have to play a long time, to be able to play like yourself”- Miles Davis

"Longevity in anything (today), is an accomplishment," - Bryan Adams

Personal History
Hanshi Bill Conley first began the study of martial arts in October 1978 in Chito Ryu Karate in Black's Harbour, NB.
Began cross training with friends and fellow college student Randy Ferguson (Assistant Instructor at the Fu Lynn Chi Academy, Saint John, NB) in Jeet Kune Do Concepts in 1981, until 1984.
Received the rank of 1st Dan in Chito Ryu Karate from founder and Supreme Master Tsuyoshi Chitose, 10th Dan, in September 1982 on his visit to Canada.
Assisted and trained with Sensei Ken O'Brien (Impact Associates) during East Coast (NB & NS) seminars on Institutional and Corporate Security Tactics & Methodologies in 1983-84.
Received an honorary certification of Advanced First Rank in Jeet Kune Do Concepts in June 1983.
Started formal training under Shihan Jon Hahne in Isshin Ryu Karate in January 1986 with an honorary rank of 1st Dan.
Started formal training under Shihan Raymond Brown, 5th Dan in Aikido in January 1986.
Received the formal rank of 1st Dan in Isshin Ryu Karate in April 1986.
Received the rank of 2nd Dan in Isshin Ryu Karate in January 1988.
Received the rank of 1st Dan in Aikido in March 1986. (Shihan Brown)
Received the rank of 2nd Dan in Aikido in February 1988. (Shihan Brown)
Received the rank of 3rd Dan in Isshin Ryu Karate in August 1993.
Advanced First Rank certification in Jeet Kune Do Concepts by the Martial Arts Masters World Federation in June 2000.
Received the rank of 3rd Dan in Aikido in April 2003. (Shihan Tajiri)
Received the rank of 4th Dan in Aikido in February 2005. (Shihan Shook)
Graduate of the Reserve Law Enforcement Officer’s Course at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro, ME in May 2003. Employed with Pleasant Point Police Department in Perry, Maine until November 2007.
Opened the IDS Martial Arts Academy on 107B Milltown Blvd. in St Stephen, NB in April 2004. Programs in: Isshin Ryu Karate, Aikido (w/ Tai Chi supplement-ally), and Jeet Kune Do concepts & Fu Lynn Chi Internal Kung Fu.
Upon the invitation of Soke Fusei Kise (10th Dan Kenshin Kan Shorin ryu & Shorinji Ryu, and 9th Dan Okinawa Kenpo Karate) in June 2005, became a member of the Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Matsumura-Seito Karate and Kobudo Federation in September 2005 with the recognized rank of 3rd Dan. Under the direction of Sensei Stan Wilbur, then 5th Dan.
Formed the New Brunswick Karate Dojos Association in October 2005.
Opened the Black's Harbour, NB Dojo in November 2005 under Sensei Jay La King, no longer active. (Now closed)
Moved the St Stephen operation from the down town location to the Milltown United Church Hall in September 2006.
Hanshisei Fusei Kise, during his visit to Bar Harbour, Maine September 22 & 23, 2006, tested and promoted Bill Conley to Renshi with the rank of 4th Dan. Also present was his son Kaicho Isao Kise.
New Brunswick Karate Dojos left OSMKKF formally in January 2007 to become affiliated with the Okinawan Budokai, under Eihachi Ota Sensei, then 9th Dan. At that time Ota Sensei formally recognized Renshi Conley’s rank (4th Dan) and that of his yudansha (Black Belts) and did so through a formal letter addressed to the National Karate Association of Canada.
Under the standard of Sensei Conley, Sensei Bill Adams opened a Dojo in McAdam, NB in January 2007.
November 2007, became employed with the Calais Police Department as an uniformed police officer.
New Brunswick Karate Dojos in April 2008 became New Brunswick KO (Karate of Okinawa). Teaching Shorin Kenpo Karate, utilizing the full array of training experience of Renshi Conley with: baseline training in Matsumura Shorin, Matsubayashi Shorin, and Isshin Ryu Karate, Kenpo Speed Hitting, along with supplemental Kobudo/weapons training.
St Stephen Dojo moved to the Milltown Elementary School Gym in September 2008.
Dated 2008; received 5th Dan/Renshi, Shorin Kenpo, from Hanshi Tony Cogliandro, American Kenpo International (post-awarded in 2017).
Opened the St Andrews Dojo at the Vincent Massey Elementary School Gymnasium in September 2010.
Upon the review of the testing board one week prior to the formal test on April 9, 2011 in Windsor, Ontario, under the direction of Hanshi Art Mason, then 8th Dan/Hanshi, Shihan Conley was evaluated for 6th Dan/Renshi. During the test that day, during a late break in the test, the test board and Hanshi Mason felt a 7th Dan/Kyoshi was more in order. A reflection of his then over 30 years in the martial arts, his contributions, impact, as well as his presentation that day and the totality of the martial systems he had experience with and displayed that day. So a second rank certificate was done up and signed. Therefore, on that test weekend Shiahn Conley received two rank certifications: 6th Dan & 7th Dan.
Part time law enforcement officer with the Calais Police Department in Calais, Maine.
First Aid Certified with Emergency Medical Services of Maine.
Morning announcer at Classic Hits WQDY/WALZ and Program Operations Manager for all of WQDY Inc's radio chain: WQDY, WALZ, and WCRQ FM's in Calais, Maine.
December 28, 2012, retired from Radio Broadcasting after 26yrs of activity.
Opened a Practical Tai Chi Chuan school in St Stephen, NB, September 2012.
Opened a Practical Tai Chi Chuan school in St George, NB, January 2014.
Opened a Karate Dojo in St George, NB September 2014.
Retired his commission with the Calais Police Department in November 2014.
Turned over command and control of the St Andrews Dojo to Sensei/Junshidoin Brandon Dowling in December 2015.
Closed the After School Karate Program in Baileyville, Maine in December 2015, in preparation for opening a full program in Baileyville in Jan '16.
Opened a Practical Tai Chi Chuan School & A Full Karate Program in Baileyville, Maine January 2016..
Also holds the rank of 4th Dan/Renshi in Aikido with supplemental Yang Taijichuan and the rank of Sigung in Yang Taijichuan (Teacher: Shihan/SIfu Raymond Brown United States Navy Seal Corps. retired Master Chief of the Navy. Multiple tours of duty Vietnam. Shihan/Sifu Brown trained with many great Taiji masters in Taiwan as well as at the Aikido Honbu Dojo in Japan.).
Conley has additionally trained with/attended seminars: Hanshi Masami Tsuruoka, Hanshi Shane Higashi, Sijo James DeMile, Master Zwing-Ming Yang, Master Ting Jue Zhou, Master William C C Chen, Shihan David Akutagawa, John LaTourette, Hanshi Fusei Kise, and presently his teacher and friend, Hanshi Eihachi Ota.
In November 2017 became the Canadian Director for American Karate Internationalal (www.akikarate.com) under Hanshi Tony Cogliandro, 10th Dan. Hanshisei Cogliandro is a 1st Generation student, friend & confidant to the Late Founder/Grand Master Ed Parker..
Also in November 2017, became the International President for the re-vamped World Budo Alliance under Hanshi Art Mason.
June 9, 2018, upon his seminar to the Shurikan Dojos membership in St Stephen, NB, Hanshisei/Senior Grand Master Tony Cogliandro,10th Dan and President of the AKI, promoted Shihan Bill Conley to 8th Dan/Hanshi in Shorin Kenpo Karate. Soon after, Hanshisei Cogliandro made Conley a member of the AKI International Senior Council.
August 1, 2018 Hanshi Conley took over command and control of the St Andrews Dojo, and effective Aug 1 '18, Hanshi Conley moved the Baileyville Dojo to Calais, Maine.
MARCH 2020 CHINESE WUHAN VIRUS! ALL Dojos CLOSED TFN...

Retail Owner, Martial Artist, Ret. Police Officer.
I believe in and support the rights of the individual over the rights of the collective. When you empower the mob; justice dies and civilization ends.
I hold that if you don't stand for what you believe to be right, you'll fall to anything.
Would rather live a day on my feet,
than a life on my knees.
Bill Conley

Hanshi C's Motto:
If you HAVE a problem, you can talk to me. If you CAUSE a problem, you can deal with me."

Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels wrote: "When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse, when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To a center obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." As to the term Political Correctness itself, professor Frank Ellis of the university of Sheffield noted that it was first used in the late 19th to early 20th century when Vladimir Lenin began his rise to power in Russia. The Nazis also used it to describe individuals and ideas which stuck to the party line. The real weaponization of political correctness and the relentless demonization of supposedly politically incorrect ideas, however, must be traced back to George Lukacs. Born low winger Burnett into a Jewish banking family based in Budapest Lukacs became a communist in 1918 and was made people's commissar of education and culture in the short-lived Red terror regime of Belah Kuhn. He also became a commissar in the red army, later admitting to the execution not only of class enemies but also of eight of his own soldiers. As well as riding a favor of political terror and mass murder, Lukacs developed a theory that sex and sexual deviancy could be used as wrecking balls to destroy the Christian values of the old order, something he believed essential to the success of the Communist Revolution political correctness paves the way for the army of horrors behind it, by turning madness into gospel, meekness into fashion, and surrender into habit. Those who are sent to the absurdity are already halfway to atrocity. They have sacrificed a piece of their souls for security, but will not receive it. The universe never has rewarded, and never will reward, a coward's attempt to bargain. We must understand Political Correctness as a very intense form of psychological and spiritual warfare. The goal of it is not just a censor ideas and words and to keep people in the dark. The ultimate goal is to destroy the subject's sense of right, and the subject sense of shame, and most importantly, the subjects will to resist, to live a life of authenticity, of honor, and virtue. All excerpted from the book, “ DEUS VULT - RECONQUISTA OF THE WEST.”

"A Martial Art does not come with an expiry date, nor does it come with a warranty!"
-Hanshi C

“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier.” - Sir William Wycherley (circa 1674)

Most of my certifications and awards. They are presented humbly and with humility below:

KENPO/KARATE & SUPPLEMENTAL SYSTEMS
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