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COMPANY PROFILE
CTG Development is operated as a sole proprietorship comprised of two distinct, yet related entities; JumpMasters and East County Budokai. JumpMasters is devoted to athletic speed and power development. East County Budokai is a Japanese-based martial arts/self-defense school located in the Spring Valley area of San Diego County. As the Director of CTG Development, Cameron is the Chief Consultant/Instructor for JumpMasters and East County Budokai.

ATHLETICS COACHING
Cameron began his athletic coaching career at Helix High School in La Mesa, CA in the early 1980s.  In the mid-1980s, Cameron coached at the Division-I collegiate level at San Diego State University. Cameron coached the women horizontal jumpers on the track team. Among the standout jumpers Cameron coached was (then) school record holder and National Championship qualifier Gaylen Ames.

Cameron returned to Helix High in 2004-2006. During his Helix years, Cameron coached several school record holders, Grossmont Conference and CIF San Diego Section champions; including, but not limited to Willie Williams, Paul Agnew, Frankie Green, Evon Willingham and Thoraya Maronesy.  Willie was the 1980 California State Games Champion and went on to be a standout jumper for Long Beach State University. Evon broke the school triple jump record and won the CIF section championship. Frankie was the section runner-up, but was a medalist in the California State Meet and the National Junior Olympics with a best of 49’ 4”(w). Cameron also guided Frankie as he won the California State JUCO championship (50’ 8”) at San Diego Mesa College the following year. Frankie went on to compete for the University of Oklahoma. Thoraya won multiple conference championships, the San Diego section championship and qualified for the California State Meet three times. Thoraya went on to compete for San Diego State University.

In 2007-2008, Cameron coached the jumps and short sprints at Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley. Cameron took over a very mediocre jump program and within one year converted it into the strongest component of the track program. In 2006 (prior to Cameron’s arrival), Monte Vista had no conference medalists or CIF qualifiers. In 2007, Monte Vista had two conference champions and five CIF qualifiers. One athlete (Rachel Kirchoffer) was the freshman long jump champion of the County (with a mark placing her among the ten best freshmen in the state). Another (Dale Thomas) was the Grossmont Conference long jump champion and just missed qualifying for the State Meet by two inches. It should be noted that he improved nearly four feet in one year! In 2008, triple jumper Hailey Mayer was the San Diego CIF (small schools) Section champion.  In 2009, Cameron began coaching the jumps and short sprints at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, CA. That season, he guided long jumper Jackae Bridges to the finals of the California State Meet.  Ms. Bridges recorded a best jump of 19' 1/2", the first 19-foot long jump by a female long jumper in San Diego County in six years.

Cameron is also involved with coaching education and consulting. In 2007, Cameron began teaching coaching education clinics for the (then) Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (now called “LA84”). The LA84 foundation is sponsored by profits generated from the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. LA84 provides coaching education clinics in the greater Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego metropolitan areas. Beginning in 2008, Cameron became the horizontal jumps Event Coordinator, succeeding one of his mentors; internationally renowned jumps expert John Tansley. Cameron has also written technique and training articles for Athletes Acceleration, a nationally recognized speed-training forum. 

COMPETITIVE HISTORY
Cameron competed as a jumper at Helix High School in La Mesa, CA. After posting a relatively mediocre mark of 16’10.5" in the Long Jump as a freshman, Cameron improved nearly seven feet to post a best of 23’ 4.5” as a senior in 1978. At that time, this was the Grossmont Conference Championship Meet Record (the previous record stood for 15 years). It is also the Helix High track stadium record. This stadium record has yet to be broken.

Cameron went on to be a nationally ranked triple jumper at San Diego State University. Cameron won the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championship in 1983 with a school record jump of 53’2.5”. During that year, Cameron was mentored by then Japanese national coach and world-renowned jumps expert Yukito Muraki.  Cameron also qualified and competed in the NCAA National Championships, the U.S. National Championships and the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials (the latter without a coach). Cameron was among the top triple jumpers in the country when he suffered a severe ankle injury in a freak accident two months before the Olympic Trials. 

Cameron began working full-time in law enforcement in 1985, and was a regular competitor in the California Police Olympics (Now the Western States Police & Fire Games), as well as the World Police and Fire Games for several years. Cameron was undefeated in both venues, and still holds the Western States Police & Fire Games record in the Triple Jump (from 1989).

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MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND

Training Experience:
Cameron began his practice of combative arts in 1979 with informal exposure to Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu. This training was brief and through various instructors. The majority of his early practical combative experiences came via "on the job" training while working security ("bouncing") in concert halls and college beer bars between 1984 and 1985.

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