Discover Extraordinary Personal Health & Fitness
By Releasing The 'Natural' Martial Artist
Buried Deep Within You!

Welcome to Fang Shen Do,

If you're after self-defense skills you can count on in a life-threatening attack, physical conditioning that leaves others staring in awe, and a feeling of success across all of your life, then you're at the right place.

Training with Bruce Lee! To really learn from a master, you must train with that master or someone who’s been very close to him. That’s why in 1977 Jacques Patenaude began training with James W. DeMile, one of Bruce Lee’s original students. More than just a student, DeMile was an actual training partner of Bruce Lee, helping him in the early stages of JKD development! After 14 years of working with DeMile and becoming one of just 5 of his accredited Wing Chun Do schools in the world (and the first in Canada), Patenaude took the best of all styles, and created Fang Shen Do. As you train with FSD you’ll gain access to many of the foundational elements of Bruce Lee’s own JKD as learned first-hand from his original training partner, DeMile, plus dynamic new elements added in the ensuing 17 years using advancement in Health & Fitness and Personal Development tools. As you train in FSD you’ll quickly discover it’s a powerful combination that uniquely elevates your training to a level you’ve never experienced before! Read more about the 12-year relationship with Bruce Lee’s original student.

Fang Shen Do isn't a traditional martial art. We won't waste any of your time in competitions (so if trophies and ribbons are your thing then you can stop reading now). And we're not one of those "belt factories" either.

Here you'll find martial arts used as a TOOL... one that makes everything else you do... better.

And this isn't by accident. Let me briefly explain.

My name is Sijo Jacques Patenaude. And I have always been a fighter.

Living in a tough family, fighting was expected, encouraged, coached, and praised.

But I knew there were gaps in my training so I turned to martial arts to fill these.

Yet every art stuffed me into a fixed format, a "box" if you will, that simply mirrored
the skill of the art's founder. And conditioning, always my focus, was often ignored.

Slowly this killed my natural movements and completely undermined my fighting
success. After years studying martial arts and self-help/self-development it
became painfully clear: to regain my natural fighting skills I needed to create my
own martial art.

The result is Fang Shen Do, which translated literally means the...
"Way of Survival."

Fang Shen Do molds itself to fit your individual skills rather than forcing you to mold to it. It adapts to fit where you are today... and where you want to be tomorrow. Because of this you quickly discover your natural rhythm.

It's a 21st century martial art that guarantees you survive everything from physical attack to an attack on your dreams, your ambitions or your values.

Fang Shen Do protects you within and without by integrating all 3 core elements of personal success into a single system: self protection, health & fitness and personal development.

Self protection

This is the core of Fang Shen Do but with a single focus on saving your life in a real street confrontation. There are no tournaments. Mix competitions with survival skills and with your life on the line, you won't do what's necessary to live. We never chance that. Yet our fighting tools are extensive.

You'll find hand-to-hand tools from striking, grappling, speed work, closing skills, to Phon Sao energy concepts, how to unleash the personal monster within (when needed) together with a few of my family's favorite "dirty fighting" secrets. Weapons aren't neglected with the blade, Sticks of all sizes including the Kubotan (a pencil-size stick), the Bo Staff and the sword all covered.

Everything is designed to bring out the "natural" martial artist already inside of you! But self protection doesn't guarantee your success in life. You must integrate it as Fang Shen Do does with both health & fitness and personal development.

Health & fitness

Fang Shen Do stresses fitness to an extreme. Once this is in place, everything else is easy for you. That's why all our classes run 60 to 90 minutes. You leave every class having advanced a specific skill or technique you can immediately use in your life plus an intense conditioning workout. Compare that to today's typical 45-minute martial arts class where you exit class with NO new skills and often without a drop of sweat. Using modern research and cutting-edge practices, techniques & equipment, Fang Shen Do guarantees you'll look and feel better (and sexier), and move with a grace and ease you haven't noticed in a long time.

Station Training is central to your conditioning success but you'll also learn to train with equipment and learn to perform amazing feats of strength. But it doesn't stop there.

Fang Shen Do programs touch other aspects of health & fitness such as flexibility, self healing, couples stretching and conditioning, even pregnancy conditioning for women.

Personal development

Fang Shen Do uses martial arts as the foundation to guide your exploration of personal development tools that bring success in the rest of your life by introducing you to meditation, arrow breaking, fire walking, glass walking as well as courses on parenting and self-motivation.

But I'm not asking you to believe what I say about Fang Shen Do. Look at the results. We've used my own kids as guinea pigs for the last 35 years as we developed, tested, tweaked and enhanced this system. Today they own many of our schools. None were given a school. Each had to earn them.

We've taught the system to 1,000's of others (all other school owners have graduated from FSD training. That's a pretty strong endorsement for the complete personal success you build using Fang Shen Do.

Your goal may not be to open a school but mastering what we offer gives you the tools to succeed at whatever you choose.

This website lets you access all these personal success tools in the form of articles, audio, video, a blog and more.

And be sure to sign up for my personal Fang Shen Do Success Secrets
newsletter. Again... welcome to Fang Shen Do... your "Way of Survival."

Sijo Jacques Patenaude


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