Hi My name is Alex, I am 17 and I train WTF Taekwondo. I live in Melbourne, Australia. I've been training Taekwondo since I was 9 and am now a 3rd Dan black belt at my club. I am an internationally recognised 3rd Dan and plan to go for my 4th Dan in minimum time when I am 20. I instruct at my club and serve as the webmaster for our website, which I designed and created with a little bit of help. I also am a qualified coach and have coached a number of times at competitions. I enjoy instructing the most, followed by sparring. I joined taekwondo because my older brother did it, and like a lot of 10 year olds thought being able to fight was very cool. I compete regularly in sparring and poomsae at both state and national levels and once at international level. My club is a small one and we have 2 branches. I am always looking to improve myself and my club in any way I can. I help design each term's self defence syllabus, as well as contribute to updating our entire syllabus to keep it fresh. In more general terms about myself; I just finished year 12 and am now bumming around. I am trying to get a renewed start on my fitness and am thinking about getting into another martial art. My long term goal is to eventually start my own taekwondo dojang and evolve it into a multi-martial art and fitness studio. I found MAP while looking for belt images and am looking forward to being a part of this community. Sorry if this was incredibly long winded, even for an "Introductions" forum.
