Instructors

Martin Obiorah

With a Taekwondo Career spanning over 20 years, Martins has competed as an elite athlete for over a decade and has won several national and international events in Taekwondo, Among his numerous achievements are; Silver at the 8th All Africa Games, Athens 2004 Olympic Games quarter finalist, Gold medallist and best player trophies at both the Belgian and Austrian Opens in 2005 (European Taekwondo Union- class A Tournaments). His other achievements are a gold medals at the middle weight category of the British Nationals 2005, Gold British University Taekwondo Championships (BUSA )2005.

Martins retired from international tournaments in 2005 to take up full time coaching. His ambition is to identify and train future Olympic athletes. Martins Holds a Master degree in science of sports coaching and currently works with elite athletes, on fighting strategies, and skill development.

Martins is also a registered (REPs) level 3 personal trainer with qualifications from National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and a GP exercise referral specialist.

Jukhee Kwon

Jukhee is from South-Korea the birth place of Taekwondo. She has over 20 years experience in Taekwondo, learning the martial arts within academic and traditional environment of Korea. She values all aspect of Taekwondo especially discipline and committement, and gained her black belt when she was 11 years old. Now, she is 3th Dan and devoting herself in teaching the original form of Taekwondo to students of Best Leg Taekwondo Academy in London. Jukhee has been competing as an athlete since she was 10 years old and has achieved 8 gold medals, a silver, and two bronzes. Moreover she did several breaking performance, showing Korean traditional style of kicking and punching. She is also qualified yoga instructor, and has three years teaching experience in Yoga. Her motivations are to help in directing students to good practices in Taekwondo and Yoga and hopes that, every one of her students will benefit immensely, thereby gaining confidence, new skills and most importantly a healthy life style.