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Martial arts enthusiast RJ teams with local instructor to help younger students<\/i><\/b>
By Kevin Woodhouse<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A child at heart, Randolph Jacob has a passion for the Power Rangers and sharing his love of martial arts to other enthusiasts. <\/p>\n

Jacob\u2014or RJ as he prefers\u2014began taking martial arts classes when he was a teenager and was recently matched up with West Island Citizen Advocacy through CROM (West Montreal Readaptation Centre). <\/p>\n

RJ, who is autistic, has found a friend in Meghan Greig, martial arts instructor at Pointe Claire\u2019s Monkey Bar gym and like RJ, a longtime practitioner. <\/p>\n

When Greig and her husband Steve, always an instructor, met RJ, \u201cwe all immediately adored him.\u201d <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before Grieg enlisted her new friend\u2019s help with her younger charges, a match that has worked out perfectly because \u201cthe kids are fascinated by him because he\u2019s an adult who shares the same enthusiasm for some of the same things as they do.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s excellent with the kids and he really backs me up with whatever I\u2019m trying to do with the kids,\u201d Grieg explained. \u201cHe\u2019s a good role model for them.\u201d <\/p>\n

She calls it a \u201cmatch made in heaven\u201d and plans to develop more specific programs for her other students in the future. <\/p>\n

The martial arts instructor is pleased that she decided to donate some of her time to WICA as \u201cI\u2019ve read in the newspapers that the Citizen\u2019s Advocacy is always looking for volunteers to help out but I never realized that this type of match could be made. It\u2019s kind of an unorthodox type of match and it\u2019s fabulous.\u201d
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