Sensei Trish Jennings is a 6th-degree (dan) black belt, multiple-time provincial champion, N.K.A Canadian Women's black belt silver medalist, and former national team member, she has studied karate since 1978. Trish studied physical and health education at the University of Toronto from 1977 to 1981.

Jim and Trish are students of the late O’Sensei Masami Tsuruoka, but consider Sensei Ted Jungblut their teacher and mentor to this day.