Located 16 hours from Perth, Hedland Taekwondo Club is a leading regional club in Western Australia. And its meteoric rise from humble beginnings has been no accident.
Located 16 hours from Perth, Hedland Taekwondo Club is a leading regional club in Western Australia. And its meteoric rise from humble beginnings has been no accident.
Located 16 hours from Perth, Hedland Taekwondo Club is a leading regional club in Western Australia. And its meteoric rise from humble beginnings has been no accident.
Oh Do Kwan Australia Head Instructor, Grandmaster Carmela Hartnett, has enjoyed an illustrious career across Taekwondo disciplines as both athlete and instructor.
It has been an action-packed start to 2024 for the Australian Taekwondo National Performance Pathways program and the tangible outcomes already appear promising.
Athletes kicked off the year in full force with a four-day training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Combat Centre – a multi-sport Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Canberra.
Hedland Taekwondo: A regional club going places in the west
2 May 2024
Located 16 hours from Perth, Hedland Taekwondo Club is a leading regional club in Western Australia. And its meteoric rise from humble beginnings has been no accident.
Perseverance behind 9th Dan honour for Carmela Hartnett
12 April 2024
Oh Do Kwan Australia Head Instructor, Grandmaster Carmela Hartnett, has enjoyed an illustrious career across Taekwondo disciplines as both athlete and instructor.
Big start to the year for National Performance Pathways
27 March 2024
It has been an action-packed start to 2024 for the Australian Taekwondo National Performance Pathways program and the tangible outcomes already appear promising.
Athletes kicked off the year in full force with a four-day training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Combat Centre – a multi-sport Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Canberra.
At the age of six, Amy Tierney – now the Owner and Head Instructor at Tierney’s Taekwondo Academy in NSW – discovered Taekwondo through a lucky break. Originally from Ingleburn in the south-west of Sydney, Tierney attempted to take up boxing at nearby Campbelltown PCYC, only to be told by an instructor that “girls don’t box”.
On International Women's Day, we celebrate the remarkable achievements of women across the globe, while also advocating for greater gender equality in all spheres of life.
International Taekwondo events are set to return to Brisbane in 2024, with the World Taekwondo President's Cup (Oceania) and the Australian Open confirmed for September 18-22 at Nissan Arena. Open to the world's top black belts, athletes from World Taekwondo's 212 Member National Associations are invited to attend.
Australian Taekwondo is proud to be associated with these organisations nationally and worldwide
We acknowledge that our office is spread across many traditional lands, and we pay respect to all traditional owners of these lands and elders past and present.