Ma'am Cheryl and GM Jonathan founded the Empowered Kickboxing and Defence System to equipped women and teen girls with the self defence tools, concepts, and strategies to give them the ability to physically defend fhemselves if the situation ever occured, as well as to spot and avoid potentially dangerous situations before they occur. Empowered is also designed to improve overall confidence through learning self defence techniques, kickboxing combinations, combative strikes, as well as improving overall fitness.
In the Empowered system, a student can work through four colour belt ranks and eventually earn their Empowered Black Belt and beyond. Students start at white belt and will progress through Pink, Red, and Purple Belts before earning their Black Belt. The curriculum is broken down into modules lasting three months each before progressing to the next module after they successfully past their rank test associated with that module. Each module consists of 4 self defence scenarios and various defences per scenario, 4 kickboxing combinations, combative strikes, fitness conditioning, and pressure testing, as well as defence concepts, principles, and strategies.
Empowered Kickboxing and Defence Classes are taught by Ma'am Cheryl and GM Jonathan at the Empowered headquarters at Cobourg Taekwondo on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The Empowered Kickboxing and Defence System program also includes the Empowered Fitness Kickboxing classes that run during the mornings from Monday through Friday and the evenings Monday through Thursday.