Our Instructing Team at Lee's Taekwondo Australia (LTA) are professional, experienced and welcoming. We are passionate about Taekwondo and helping students on their journey at LTA. Our team teach engaging, educational and practical martial arts classes for ages between 18 months and 80 years of age. LTA's Instructing Team regularly participate in training and development sessions to ensure the highest standard of martial arts instruction is provided.
Left to Right: Ms Allyson, Ms Milla, Ms Isla, Mr Rahul, Ms Ella, Mr Samuel, Ms Kate, Mr Jarrod, Ms Baylee, Ms Tayla, Ms Shariz, Ms Tylah, Ms Arianne, and Master Lee.
Instructors
Grand Master Stuart Lee, 8th DanTraining in Martial Arts since 1973, Stuart was a competitor for 20+ years. He captained many Australian teams until he retired in 1994. Stuart went on to Manager the National Sports Organisations (NSO) Coach Education Director (1998-2001), he was the Australian Team Selector and High Performance Manager (2001-2008) and was the Australian Olympic Team's Taekwondo Section Manager in Athens 2004.
Stuart was appointed by World Taekwondo as the Technical Delegate (TD) for the Multi-sport Pacific Games in 2015 (Papua New Guinea), 2019 (Samoa) and recently for 2023 in the Solomon Islands. |
Master Kate Hogden, 5th Dan
Kate is the Head Poomsae (Patterns) Coach
Lead Instructor Jarrod Wilson, 3rd Dan
Jarrod started Taekwondo in 2014 and become an instructor in 2018. This is his eighth year of training, and in that time he scored silver in one competition for sparring although his main focus is on instructing not competing. He is a third dan black belt in Taekwondo, and a blue belt in Hapkido.
Ms. Shariz is a Head Instructor at Lee's Taekwondo Australia and is a 3rd Dan Black belt. She started taekwondo in 2011 as a 10 year old and started competing in sparring in 2013. She competed in the -46kg junior black belt division in the 2015 Adelaide nationals and won silver medal. Ms. Shariz is currently studying a bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Canberra whilst enjoying her passion for teaching and instructing as well as taekwondo as a sport and the Lee's Taekwondo community.
Lead Instructor Samuel Hansen, 3rd Dan
Hapkido Leader and Kyorugi (Sparring) Coach
Instructor Clara Van Puyvelde, 2nd Dan
Assistant Instructor Ella, 2nd Dan
Ella commenced at LTA in 2016 and became an instructor in 2020. Her passion is Poomsae and has competed in local, interstate and international Poomsae competitions over the past few years including the Sydney Taekwondo Festival, Oceania Poomsae Championships, South Coast Taekwondo Competition and WT Presidents Cup Oceania.
When not at Taekwondo Ella also enjoys playing competitive netball, coaching a junior netball team and working her casual job, whilst keeping up with her studies at school.
When not at Taekwondo Ella also enjoys playing competitive netball, coaching a junior netball team and working her casual job, whilst keeping up with her studies at school.
Assistant Instructor Daniel, 2nd Dan
Daniel commenced at LTA in February 2016, at the age of 8. He is currently a 2nd Dan black belt. Daniel has participated in 4 sparring competitions, interstate and locally, achieving 1 gold and 3 silver medals. Daniel has used his Poomsae knowledge to judge at an inter-club competition in 2022.
He started the leadership program at LTA as a class assistant in October 2021 and has progressed to assistant instructor in 2022. He assists with the Tigers, Dragons, and Cadets classes as well also assists with the Poomsae class.
Outside of Taekwondo, Daniel has a keen interest in motorsports.
He started the leadership program at LTA as a class assistant in October 2021 and has progressed to assistant instructor in 2022. He assists with the Tigers, Dragons, and Cadets classes as well also assists with the Poomsae class.
Outside of Taekwondo, Daniel has a keen interest in motorsports.