World Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan Australia

Congratulations to all Oh Do Kwan students who passed Dan grading on the weekend, well done.
Thank you to our Examiners for the day:
R Hartnett & C Hartnett 9th Dans, A Tippet & J Crutchett 8th Dans, G Hartnett, N Brickwood & B Emmett 7th Dans, K Hartmann, S Sandover & C Hayward 6th Dans, S Hill, A Mariassouce, A Durnin, G Greenfield & B Schimpf 5th Dans, E Soemali, K Liew, M Buhlmann, L Lim & D Brown 4th Dans.

Entry Forms out now!! See your instructors for entry forms. Dont miss out!!

Entry Forms coming soon!! See your instructors for entries from 6th May. Dont miss out!!

Congratulations to our Oh Do Kwan Head Instructor GM Carmela Hartnett who teaches at our Maddington and Riverton clubs on winning Gold at the National Team Selections. The win earns her a spot on to the World Championships in Korea in September. Carmela is a multiple time World Championship medal winner and will be trying her utmost to add to her World Medal count. Congratulations also go to GM Ross Hartnett who has been selected as one of 6 National Coaches to the 59 member National team.

43rd Year of our Perth Open yesterday, The longest running Taekwondo Competition in Australia by a single organisation or Club. A big thanks to all our volunteers and officials who helped at our Perth Open Championships. Special thanks to referee chair Grand Master Jenny Crutchett, Master Graeme Hartnett and his Belmont club who set up and bumped out and Grand Master Anita Tippet and the Port Kennedy club members who helped and our Riverton, Leeming and Maddington instructors and members under the direction of Grand Master Carmela Hartnett who helped. Congratulations to all the competitors and coaches who entered, well done.
Winning Teams Poomsae Winning Teams Kyorugi
1st Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan 1st Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan
2nd Core Martial Arts 2nd French Martial Arts
3rd ATI Martial Arts 3rd ATI Martial Arts

Happy New Year to all our Students, Instructors, the world Oh Do Kwan fraternity and families. May you and your loved ones have a safe and great 2026.

Happy New Year to all our Students, Instructors, Friends around the world and their families. May you and your loved ones have a safe and great 2026.

To all our students, instructors and friends worldwide we wish you a safe and Merry Christmas. See you all in 2026.

Congratulations to our 75 Participants grading for various Dan levels, well done. Participants ranged in age from 8 years to 70 years
To those who did not pass train hard and improve for next attempt.
Thanks to our 25 Examiners from 4th Dan through to 9th Dan:
C Hartnett 9th Dan, A Tippet & J Crutchett 8th Dans, G Hartnett, N Brickwood & J Warren 7th Dans, T Hayward, K Hartmann & S Sandover 6th Dans, C Hayward, S Hill, A Mariassouce, A Durnin, T Hill & M Duff 5th Dans, B Schimpf, S Faggetter, E Soemali, K Liew, S Madden, J Steinert, T Xu, M Buhlmann, T Best & C Perez 4th Dans.
Special Congratulations:
Cathy Hayward who passed 6th Dan, Barbara Schimpf who passed 5th Dan.
Welcome to our new 4th Dans Olivia Lin, Wikan Palguna, William Poedjokerto & Syabil Mohammed.
Best in Grading awards:
Erica Kim (Riverton) Kitson Wong (Riverton)
Olivia Lin (Riverton) Frankline Kindipan (Maddington)
Lance Sudaria (Kwinana) Winston Xu (Leeming)
Zachary Chander (Kwinana) Ursula Sinsua (Maddington)

Oh Do Kwan Gup Grading Perth, Western Australia

Congratulations Oh Do Kwan Grand Master Carmela Hartnett. GM Carmela was again victorious at the 2025 Australian Open and Oceania Presidents Cup. She has been victorious in every edition she has attended for over 20+ years. Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan usually is represented by a signifigant sized team however was represented at this years Australian Open and Oceania Presidents Cup by only GM Carmela as a competitor. GM Carmela also assisted the Poomsae Referees after she competed. GM Ross Hartnett was again the Referee Chair in charge of the coordination of Poomsae Referees for both competitions, having been charged with this responsability for many years.

Congratulations to our South/West Oh Do Kwan affiliate Instructor Master Justin Warren on winning the Best Event / Program of the year for 2025 at the Bunbury Geographe Sports Award.