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♦ ♦ 24 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, May 14, 1999 Learn to Sail Adult and Youth Programs Oakville Yacht Squadron 338-9379 Sports An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 255) Fax:337-5567 National jiu-jitsu champ set to take on the world By N orm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR j cott Schilling is looking to beat the world into submission. The 30-year-old ' martial arts instructor, who has lived in Oakville for five years, is a member of Canada's five-member jiu-jitsu team which will compete in the world championships (sanctioned by the World Kobudo Federation) next Thursday (May 20) in Quebec City. The sport is not for the faint of heart. "It's submission grappling," explained Schilling, who was actually in this past Wednesday's Beaver for earning one of 14 citizen's commendations from Halton Region Police Services. Schilling notified police of an act of vandalism taking place, which eventually led to the arrest of three suspects. Most martial arts movies feature whirling dirvishes of flying hands and feet. And that's exactly what submission grappling is not about. Striking, whether with hands, feet, knees or whatever, is forbidden. And that's about the only rule, other than "no eye gouging." "Other than that," explained Schilling, "everything goes." As in wrestling, the two competitors start from a standing position. The science of wrestling is to pin the opponent on his back or at least outpoint him. The object in submission grappling, he said, "is basically to get the guy to scream mercy." "You start from standing, close the dis­ tance on each other, and take each other to the ground. Either choke them or arm broad them or leg lock them or just manipulate any joint in their body 'till they say, 'I give'. It's pretty hard core." He claims it's not as dangerous as it sounds. "I also play soccer and I get 10 times more injuries playing soccer than I ever did from mar­ tial arts. Soccer is much more dangerous." The reason, he said, is because they are experts. Definitely don't do this at home. "At our level there's a tremendous amount of control. It's very easy to do some major damage but when you get to our level you have such control that once you catch somebody in a posi­ tion where you know that you have them, they also realize that too, and they submit. "Now, it's their responsibility to tap (submit)." And it's especially crucial at high level events such as the world championships "because you don't know what this person's range of move­ ment is or flexibility." Scott Schilling ' ' i i Photo by Barrie Erskine "So if they get injured if's their fault. It's their responsibility to let you know, okay, I give. So if you don't 'tap' you will get hurt but that's your fault." Take away the few rules that govern this sport and basically what you have left is the contro­ versial 'no holds barred' fighting. Speaking of which, Schilling figures he'll be competing in that 'sport' in about a year. "If you're familiar with the 'no holds barred' scene, there's a family by the name of the Grade's, and they've pretty well dominated that scene since day one. I train with them." Schilling has been in martial arts for more than half of his 30 years (16 to be exact) and has been competing in submission grappling since 1995, the last few years on a more serious basis. While martial arts is his sport, his passion it's also his life, his job. He's not a teacher, per se. But a self defence expert. If some martial arts are akin to ballet with their zen-like moves borne out of centuries of tradition, then Schilling is surely at the other end of the spectrum. His moves are borne out of very real situations on our very real city streets. And he's packaged it into his own Oakville company called Hybrid Defence Systems. He has a varied client base, from women's self defence seminars to the police. "I'll be training the Halton Region Police SWAT team in September. I've taught at the last two Use of Force conferences, two years ago with Peel and last year at Seneca College." Schilling has warmed up for the worlds with two key national wins in the past few weeks. For the second year in a row, he won the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Canadian nationals this past Saturday. Prior to that he won the gold cup at the Canadian Challenge. It will be his first trip to the worlds, and he'll be competing in the light heavyweight division. Canada was the top team at last year's world championships and Schilling is certainly gunning for Canada to retain the team championship as well as individual gold. Schilling has certainly ruled his division in Canada and he sees no reason why he can't repeat his success on the ultimate stage for this sport -- the world championships. That's not to say that Schilling can't be beat. But, the one person he's pretty sure could do the trick he doesn't have to fear because it's his 17-year-old friend and train­ ing partner who is competing in a lighter division. "I can't do nothing with that kid. He kills me." Schilling, naturally, has an exhaustive training regimen. "Strength training, technical training. I do running. I run by the Oakville pier. I run on top of the wall to maintain balance. I get some looks from people that think I'm nuts. It enables me to focus." With his business and personal life, his work­ out schedule varies. "Lately we're training five days a week, three hours a shot. And then we'll do running in the morning." Next Thursday, in Quebec, he'll find out if it was enough. Coyotes host Kitchener tonight 7:30 p.m., at Oakville Arena The Oakville Coyotes are not panicking despite a 0-3 start to their Major Junior A roller hockey sea­ son. They dropped their opener in overtime 7-6 to the traditionally strong Brantford Thunderhawks and then, last weekend, they dropped a home-and-home series to the Georgetown Wolfpack, fast year's Walter Gretzky Cup winners. Oakville ran into a hot goalie in the first game losing 8-4 last Friday despite firing 43 shots. And then on Saturday in Georgetown, they dropped another one-goal game, 10-9. The Coyotes host the Kitchener Rink Rats tonight (Friday, May 14), 7:30 p.m., at Oakville Arena. It's another home and home series and they will repay the visit to Kitchener at Albert McCormick Arena on Sunday, 2 p.m. High school golf tour The Halton high school golf tour is under way, and the first stop was at Heron Point. It was an impor­ tant one, as it was round one of the Halton championship to determine the indi­ vidual and team champions through stroke play. The second round of the Halton cham­ pionship will be (See 'High' page 25) 1 s t - NOTRE DAME (237) Andrew Parkes 77 Bryan Faldowski 77 Joe Perinno 79 Jeremy Dennie 87 2nd -1. RIDGE (240) Jeff Kotulak 79 Dan Repath 79 Connor O'Shea 81 • Jamie Ball 83 3rd - ALDERSHOT (241.5) Jeff Buschhausen 76 Scott Johnston 81 Steve Johnson 83 Geoff Booth 86 4th - ASSUMPTION (243) Jared Skinner 78 Josh Wallace 81 Grant Warren 84 Daryl MacLean 84 5th - M.M. Robinson (244) Jason Foucault 77 Michael Gardner 78 Vittorio Collaciti 80 Tom Gerrard 98 6th - PEARSON (245.5) Mike Harrison 73 Dave Glasbey 76 Peter Verschoote 80 Trevor Sway 113 7th - AQUINAS (249) Adam Bianchi 80 Mark Calzonetti 82 Jeff Brace 86 Mike Kozak 88 8th - LOYOLA (250) Sean Lowry 80 Brandon Hill 82 Doug Keene 85 Ryan Dickinson 91 9th - Q.E. PARK (252) Luke Ridley 79 Andrew Jones 80 Gary Sumak 93 Andrew Reid 93 10th - CENTRAL (252.5) Matt Bliss 79 Scott Kilby 82 Tyler Dren 89 Jeff Baynton 94 11th - BLAKELOCK (257) Andrew Poynter 81 Dean Henry 86 Scott Wallace 86 Josh Crowley 94 12th - E.C. DRURY (258) Jeff Mitchell 77 Marc Jones 88 Jeff Gollin 88 Matt Brown 98 13th-WHITE OAKS (259.5) Jason Dziable 74 Karl Wulf 90 Jeff Disher 95 Matt Hanson 96 14th - ACTON (288.5) Chad Greenwood 87 Chris Near 92 Phil Wilson 106 Mark Bailey 113 15th-LO R D ELGIN (290) Cam Reynolds 84 John James 89 Alex Brown-Reym 105 Scott Mackett 109