World class martial arts instructor and personal trainer with a third degree black belt. My special skill set is self-defence, kickboxing, boxing, functional strength training, long and lean muscle development, losing the last ten pounds, and women's self-defence.
Our intent is to provide a source of empowerment for women, explore intersections, and to be a good ally. A suggested contribution of $15/class or more is geared towards keeping the gym open and equipped. Members involved in either our personal training or group training are invited to participate in our non-profit webseries production named Honey Badgers where we re-enact potentially dangerous women assault scenarios that can and have happened on the streets of Toronto and cities everywhere. These scenarios are combinations of character back stories, the event that occurs and the lesson learned.
Womans Testimonial
(interview) woman answering unheard questions from unseen journalist: “I was training hard doing cross-fit everyday. I felt confident that I could defend myself because I could push a lot of weight in the gym and felt strong”.
I thought it would never happen to me…
I guess You could say that I was stubborn.I didn’t need any help. In my mind I was confident enough to be able to handle myself in any situation.
Sometimes it was boring weight training and doing the same repetitions over and over again so I would skip a workout more times than I should have.
Counter Assault Training (C.A.T) makes me feel safe. Had I known that I was going to be assaulted I would take back skipping that workout and would have practiced groin attacks!
The day of the attempted assault changed my life forever. I will never forget…
I now have the support of a team of dedicated enablers who have chosen the same positive lifestyle as me. I have a fitness family. Thank-You Concrete Jungle for bringing out my true potential and for showing me that If your eyes are only on the prize you sometimes realize you lost sight of the pathway to get there, so keep your head down, stay humble, let go of all ego and let your light shine bright. Bless
Here’s more fire from our video library street-anime!
Contact us for training in boxing, kickboxing, womens self-defence, weight training, MMA.
Ronda Rouseyformer UFC Bantamweight champion valiantly tried but inevitably lost her belt to Holly Holm a former boxing champion and new UFC champion. Holly Holm shook down the only champion to ever hold a bantamweight belt or title in the UFC. It was a mugging but it wasn’t easy. What is was, was one of the most masterful performances in the Octagon ever!
We want to congratulate UFC’s newly crowned champion Holly Holm and also to add to that Ronda Rousey and womens MMA have been our motivation for our up and coming webseries affectionately called Honey Badgers. It is about these very tough daring women who dare to share their bold stories of assault prevention. They’re real examples of courage. They have MMA female fighters as peers and mentors to empower them with following through on their goal of self-actualization, who are all strong dominant women who don’t quit. Some they know personally, some are just being discovered and some are MMA pioneers who we have the privilege of following through social media and pay per views. These are the alpha women who are out there on the front line. Ten toes to the curb. Street. Front line soldiers. They are ambassadors for martial arts and it’s effectiveness. These are our heroes.
I came up with this idea through my experiences as a martial artist and personal trainer, training women and providing support through active listening. From boys to men, we have always known that women have it more difficult in this world due to the way we view women’s place in our society. Its’s worse than we thought. Women are often victims of assault and this often results in a lasting trauma that they may have to develop skills to let go of the memories and heal.
Upon further examination, through life experiences and having had the privilege of similar conversation with many women of different intersections, and by cross referencing and introspection, I slowly came to understand the depth of the oppression that many women face. I also realized that as a black male that women and people of colour like myself have a similar story of needing to develop more techniques to handle those challenging situations when it comes to oppressive behaviours, such as discrimination and oppression due to privilege, directed against us. This set the tone to create a women’s Counter Assault Training Self-Defence fightclub That metamorphosized into this webseries project that we now affectionately call Honey Badgers.
Strength in Unity!
Remember the military phrase an enemy of an enemy is my friend? This became so relevant when I realized that we had all these intersections of common ground that we share. As a martial artist and an activist I’ve been trying to find a solution to women being downpressed by the male patriarchal system dominating us and the world. If we are truly “out of many, one people “, then regardless of gender, race, class, orientation You are all on our team. One Love. Aboriginal, same team, women same team. Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited, everywhere is War! This also applies to groups of people, cultures, societies, gated communities, we must come together to fix the world.
In retrospect, my thirst for personal development has led me here so that this can also liberate myself and my team. Hindsight has shown me that the empathy was really sympathy because I don’t identify as a woman but I can feel some of their pain…now. Ultimately this project has helped me by personally allowing me to be ever more conscious as a man and compassionate while allowing me as a problem solver and an architect for change to find a solution to permanently transform the system that enables the powers that be to downpress us, our women and all humanity which extends to the entire earth and her inhabitants.
Introduction to Jiu-Jitsu class
Our Origin Story
If you’re familiar with the African proverb It never rains on just one roof then you understand that we’re all in this together so we must lift up each other so that we can climb higher. Armed with this information we formed a T.E.A.M which means Together. Everyone. Achieves.More. We adopted the Honey Badger as our mentor and spirit guide, the most ferocious and tenacious of all animals, voted pound for pound champion in the animal kingdom for toughness, intelligence and cunning. This is the beginning. Our goal is growth.
The canvas for our art looks like…
Our intent is to continue to gather intriguing stories of situations that actually happened with alternate endings or what if scenarios written by our exceptional writers and showcase them using our multimedia platform, Concrete Jungle TV, in order to promote the intangible things less talked about like consciousness, easing people’s suffering, innerstanding, crossing invisible boundaries,privilege, breaking glass ceilings, etc…
Our Mantra!
We believe that to achieve you must first conceive then believe. With this as one of our mottos we are empowering women worldwide with scenarios of conquering women achieving victory through hard-fought battles with our camouflaged common adversarial downpressor, the reigning heavyweight champion has no name, however…
Are you talking about “The Man”?
You could say that colonialism introduced the male patriarchal system and also racism, homophobia, sexism, misogyny and is imbedded in the government, finance, wage structure, business structure, western culture, it is against women, so-called minorities, Indigenous people and mother earth.
Our response to violence?
These downpressive people describe themselves as the majority when they are only a small percent of the population. They only understand power and force. This is how we fight back against force. Men need to understand that they should protect women and not antagonize them. They are our mothers, sisters, and daughters, not our slaves or our entitlement or our spoils.
Who are we?
We are those who oppose and sometimes get chose to turn in our hats for halos, who see it as our duties as protectors of the planet to intervene on behalf of all those who are downpressed and will stop at nothing to free their spirit and their minds while we continue to free our own. We acknowledge that it is an ongoing process that will take many lifetimes. We are fighting for our spirit and our light. Help us help you help others. Blessings
Short Bio – Lee Turner AKA. Xiaolin
I am Lee Turner a former champion in various martial arts. Black Belt. I am the founder/grandmaster of Concrete Jungle. I am currently a teacher, personal trainer under the umbrella of martial arts consultant which covers everything. My day consists of training my clients in physical fitness, nutrition, boxing, women’s self-defence and training or studying fight directing and choreography for my films, also playing the drums and musical instruments with my indigenous band The Kingtones.
I have an organically grown women’s self-defence fightclub that trains MMA which is basically boxing, kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu when on the ground. Our fightclub is the foundation for the Honey Badgers. From training women I realized that they all have interesting stories, whether they choose to share it with you is their choice.
All of our actors train with the fightclub making it easier to choreograph our fights scenes. What we’re doing with this webseries is telling the most amazing, interesting stories using multimedia with a twist to it.
We teamed up with GutterWebSeries.com a production company and the rest is herstory.
Concrete Jungle TV is our window to the world TV internet channel where we will feature our Honey Badgers webseries and other links as well. On Concrete Jungle TV we have instructional videos, public service announcement, motivational videos to give you a view of what training is like in my Concrete Jungle which is the name of my fitness lifestyle company/brand and martial art as well as a place on earth where good things are manifest and bad things are seen as challenges and tests.
Stay Blessed!
T.E.A.M. stands for Together. Everyone. Achieves. More.
This year has been the year of collaboration. Concrete Jungle has been teaming up with top experts in their fields to free the people. What it takes to reach our highest levels of vibration, our lifelong goal and our destiny is to lift while climbing which is a metaphor for having compassion and good karma. We have very interesting original projects to share that we are working on right now. We’re going to use this space to inform you of what’s happening now and in the near future please stay in the loop. Here is your update!
Our intense focus currently is dedicated to our women’s self-defence fightclub webseries inspired by Ronda Rousey. This has been our most challenging, ongoing mission which is to create content and edge of your seat films, bursting with exciting episodes that we produced for our first season. We thought it would be not only be interesting but imperative that we approach this on more than one front.
Anna Von training with Lee Turner
What’s coming very soon to your screen is this webseries of our women of Concrete Jungle Honey Badgers Fightclub members who enthusiastically agreed to subject themselves to potentially dangerous scenarios that have actually happened onto which we overlayed our exciting action filled alternate ending. This might be an extreme example but we live in a patriarchal society and this is what we have manifested. Many men don’t recognize boundaries and only understand force. Their vocabulary does not include the words, stop, no and don’t and they see no repercussions for their actions. Even though this may seem extreme it is also a reality for many women who have experienced intimidation tactics, real-time with no rehearsal. Avoidance doesn’t always work either. Since there is no right or wrong way to deal with this kind of obtrusive behavior, we collaborated a few ideas to help equalize this imbalance. We need to work toward building a more equitable society.
Ronda Rousey – Current (UFC) – Ultimate Fighting Championship World Champion
Our first priority is to provide entertainment and content from a humanitarian, women come first, positive health and fitness, martial arts, lifestyle brand point of view. Meaning our intent is to show the pleasurable benefits of fitness and self-defence training for women in an empowering space that doesn’t sexualize or marginalize but instead empowers and uplifts these undercover female warriors who know who they are, who are downpressed by popular culture and stepped on for speaking out. We see You! Salute!
Ronda Rousey – Open Workout for her fans in Brazil
The Honey Badger is our totem for a style of jiu-Jitsu that we use in our Fightclub.
“They just don’t give a sh**!”…
If you live in Toronto and choose to change your life by choosing a lifestyle of fitness and self-defence we welcome you to contact us and come to the studio and let’s collaborate! Blessings.
Speed Kills! In boxing there is a saying that goes… I hope You payed your hydro because it’s going to be lights out for You. Concrete Jungle has taken that phrase a step further. We are issuing a challenge to the entire WORLD online. We challenge anyone and everyone to put out a tea light with a punch. No touching it with said punch or anything else. NO CONTACT! NOTE:When You watch the video pay close attention to the lit candle on the table.
The backstory to this is that my friends and I were having a debate on what was seemingly possible and not possible. I said that Impossible was Nothing. They called me out and replied that I was only cliche and empty words repeated from Adidas.This got me thinking and prompted me to show and prove on the spot. I don’t usually give demonstrations that are so official, usually someone just wants me to show them a move or an escape but what they were asking for was proof of the supernatural. First I asked them to try it. After a lot of encouragement on my part they both tried it, unsuccessfully. That’s when we decided to extend the challenge to the world to make new friends and further the advancement of martial arts globally! If You found this challenge extremely difficult join a reputable gym near You or come train with Concrete Jungle where You can learn to have lethal technique. Remember with great power comes great responsibility. Technique is a tool that can be used for the greater good or for the worst evil, so Use it wisely.
-Blessings
Bonus
While we have your attention we also want to show You the Best installments on our video library from ConcreteJungleTV. Check this out! Just Press Play.
Martial Arts is a discipline that is often misunderstood. It is the art of war played out between individuals instead of armies, even deeper, it is War played out internally instead of externally.
Through the years it has acquiring a reputation that’s hard to shake, of people saying it’s just about fighting only, its not going to help You on the street, that not all it’s practicioners can fight and that just because someone is a black belt it doesn’t mean that they are tough enough. They talk about how other fighting arts like boxing or kickboxing are better because they only teach techniques that You can use in full contact competition. People associate martial arts with mysticism and smoke and mirror tricks. They think when they see a martial artist break a few boards or bricks or bend spears that it is some kind of stunt. they think all the flashy moves are for show. They think the martial arts practitioner is a hypocrite for talking spiritually but not walking it every second of their life, no mistakes allowed. They assume martial artist are ego driven, power hungry, nerds that used to get beat up and had to learn to defend themselves (even though this could be true). It is assumed there is no concrete explanation for their seemingly superhuman abilities therefore it can’t be real. It is almost universally overlooked that Martial Arts is actually the science of the mind. This is true because the mind rules the body and it is imperative that the mind has to step back for the inner soul to shine through. It is the art of war played out between individuals instead of armies, even deeper, it is the art of war played out internally instead of externally.
I have been involved in martial arts over half my life and there was a time that I also was guilty of having these same prejudices. What I have discovered though is that fighting is just the inevitable conclusion in martial arts when all else fails. How can You negotiate with an enemy when they are armed either physically or mentally and You have no weapons? So martial arts is the great equalizer. Since there are so many ways to get attacked or enter into conflict, it is almost impossible to prepare for each individual scenario. Â
Our approach to this problem is to link the person with their body, mind and spirit through rigorous training. This training is designed to break down the physical body to the point where it is willing to accept new programming in order to overcome the exercise that it previously failed at. Our human body from birth and even sooner, from conception only wants to improve it’s condition. Self-perfection. Just like how a tree only wants to grow big and move towards the sun, our body wants to heal and be as efficient as possible in it’s energy consumption in order to continue to heal, grow and reproduce cells to stay alive. All this happens subconsciously, however a qualified martial arts instructor is aware of this process and knows it is their duty to use this process to take the practitioner to a higher level of excellence.
Even though there are infinite scenarios in which we can be attacked there are only a finite amount of weapons we have at our disposal to defend ourselves. The martial artist learns to use every one of these physical weapons through repetitive movements. We train the body for movement, not for big muscles. In nature there are few things more beneficial than true functional strength. Functional strength is gained through muscle endurance, cultivated over an extended period of time such as the time it takes to get a black belt, or time it takes to get farmer strong, approximately 5 years. Â
There are many different styles of meditation, all designed to take us on the inner journey, the path less travelled. this is how we truly make contact and form a relationship with our true self. Our soul. Once that unity is achieved fighting is just a formality or a technicality which doesn’t have to happen. Bullys pick fights they believe they can win. It is more difficult for them to see as a victim someone who has is trained and has made a body, mind and spiritual connection that shows subliminally or even outwardly. This now becomes more of a mental warfare. Â
Martial arts is a moving meditation. It questions everything  You think and forces You to alter Your core beliefs. This is true because people often come looking for help but failing to realize that You can never solve a problem with the same energy that caused it. So what is needed is a change in thinking. Here’s what it looks like after all the training and hard work has already been done. In moving meditation we first learn to quiet the mind. It’s job is only to observe as a witness what happened and if intervention is required then the mind must be flexible, able to change shape according to the situation and improvise, in a Jazz kind of way. This is the same for all spiritual meditative practices. The only difference is that in this scenario someone is trying to kill You while You do this. This is also true in non-contact styles because visualization plays a big part so in the mind the conflict is still real.
Black Belt means not that You are an expert but that You have mastered your basics. With basics mastered fighting can now be a spiritual practice because the body instictively already knows what to do and now that It has been taught the technique and the timing and the distancing and the core strengthening, intent, energy direction, to not quit and to persevere among other things. It’s up to You the practitioner to sit back and be the observer in the NOW and allow the body to do just that, defend itself, with no blockages. Any intervention should be You stopping yourself from finishing them off.
Make an appointment and You can train with us for one week free! Watch our empowering films showing how we achieve your fitness goals. Realize how strength is not only physical but mental and spiritual as well. Satisfy your soul with a life changing experience and join our team. Congratulations, You have already made the first step!
Holistic nutritionist Andrew Judson is the newest member of the Concrete Jungle family. Find out how he can help YOU!!
Many of our personal training clients were requesting nutritional support because they or their jobs require a level of physically fit that can only be acquired through monitoring nutritional intake. So what we did was brought in the absolute best holistic nutritionist Lion for You and now we provide 24 hour monitoring in order to exceed your expectations!
We have self-defence lessons for her! Learn to defend yourself on the subway, street or in the bedroom. Watch this video to see how fun and exciting it can be to achieve your fitness goals and defend yourself. Learn to defend yourself with the most effective techniques ever invented, under careful supervision, in a good place!
Concrete Jungle TV is our own network channel on Youtube for entertainment and instruction. Watch the first video Episode 1. This shows our humble beginnings, where we started our Counter Assault Training program for women to where it is now and gives you a clear idea of what the training is about and how You will benefit!
If you liked Episode 1, try Episode 2. This is in a first person Go-Pro camera type video that shows training from an instructors point of view. Pay special attention to the workout in the beginning. We challenge you to try it. Not for quitters!
Don’t forget that our Personal Training program is second to none, and is ongoing. You are now eligible to go to 2 Counter Assault Training C.A.T. group classes per week when you purchase personal training sessions with us!
How do You register for a class or training session?
Register by email to leejitsu@gmail.com or leave us a message in the comment section and we will get right back to You and will get You started!
Concrete Jungle’s new media is right now shaking down network TV! We have our own online TV channel! Now You can easily watch our videos for entertainment and instructional purposes, just don’t try everything You see here at home. Take a look in our eyes and see what we see. You can view our extensive online video collection anytime you want to from our very own video library which you can easily subscribe to at no charge! -One Love
My name is Lee Turner. The Concrete Jungle style of martial arts and fitness was founded in the year 2000 at the turn of the century by me. In the 90’s I was designated a 3rd degree Black Belt in various martial arts with a particular skill set that translates very well into all styles of fighting and self-defence. I am currently a martial arts consultant, a world class martial arts instructor, a personal trainer specializing in functional strength and weight loss and am currently operating out of downtown Toronto, Ontario at Yonge and Bloor.
I Love meeting new people and I welcome You to come in and try a workout or tell a friend about us.
My clients are very interesting and extremely diverse. From Judges to Cirque du Soleil performers. People with high stress jobs seek us out. Actors, basketball players, doctors, executives…etc. We are all about adopting a new full immersion lifestyle, livity. One of eating consciously and training for a bigger reason than how you look in the mirror without diminishing the truth that what we experience visually when looking in the mirror will always be a factor concerning the intensity of our workouts. During the course of our training, we are going to address physical health, mental health and spiritual health. All are necessary for balance. My job is to guide you to be the best You, You can be and there is no better way to measure improvement than to master the art of life.
Concrete Jungle offers:
Women’s self-defence and fitness group classes (C.A.T) Counter Assault Training
Personal Training for anyone
Small Group training for open group or exclusive for You and your friends.
Fight shows for grudge fights, charities, corporations.
Small group MMA Classes
Personal Training in Toronto by Lee Turner the Former World Champion 