Riverton Taekwondo Oh Do Kwan

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.

Congratulations to all who passed central metro Gup grading last week. We had a high number of high passes, resulting in quite a few honours passes, well done. Thank you to our examiners for the week.
Double Promotion
Audrey Vuong (Riverton)
Honour’s Pass
Iya Ramos (Belmont) - Dhaniesha Rajapakse (Maddington)
Agna Aji (Belmont) - Leah Yoo (Riverton)
Parvatee Nowbuth (Atwell) - Lanlan Zi (Riverton)
Zainab Hakimi (Maddington) - Mubina Kurbanova (Maddington)
Yeung Tan (Riverton)
Little Tigers Best In Grading
Sarah Rustami (Maddington)
Examiners
C Hartnett 9th Dan, G Hartnett 7th Dan, T Hayward & C Hayward 6th Dans, A Mariassouce, S Hill, T Hill, & B Schimpf 5th Dans, J Steinert & L W Lim 4th Dans.

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

Well done to all our Riverton Oh Do Kwan members who participated in State Poomsae Training on Sunday.

Perth Open Championships 22nd March - Entry forms available end of the week, check with instructors. Entries close 10th March.

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.

Our last event for the year our Maddington HQ kids end of year party and awards was a great success. Thanks to those that Assisted in making it a great event: C Hartnett: S & L Mohd Raya, D Madurapperuma, J Jeyakajan, S Z Dakham, L & K Ngan, S Mooradi, C Hartanto & A Jordan.
Best Performance Students
K Rajapakse & B Mohd Raya
Most Improved Students
S Suthirtharajan, V Sagwal, Z Hayek, R Kazmi, A Gautham, E Gioussouf, K Sathees, W Maitim, J Kim, E Dwyer, Y X Mah, S Willans, J S Chow & E Majji.
Grand Master Carmela and Ross thank all those who brought them presents and cards, it is much appreciated and we will see you next year.

Congratulations to all our members who gup graded at Gosnells, Maddington and Port Kennedy over the last week. Great final grading for 2025 we look forward to you all acheiving in 2026.
Honour’s Pass : Iris Adnan (Cannington)
Diobett Bangayan (Maddington) Naila Fibriadi (Cannington)
Thanks to all our examiners at central gradings.
GM C Hartnett 9th Dan, G Hartnett & N Brickwood 7th Dans, T Hayward & C Hayward 6th Dans, A Mariassouce, A Durnin, S Hill, T Hill, G Greenfield, & B Schimpf 5th Dans & L W Lim 4th Dan.
Port Kennedy Gradings
GM A Tippet 8th Dan, Master K Hartmann 6th Dan, S Leadbeatter 5th Dan and K L Meng 4th Dan
500 + students passed at our last grading sessions aging from 4 years - 70 years of age, excellent job by students and instructors.

Congratulations on our Riverton students who passed Dan Grading. Riverton had the most participants awarded best in grading with 3 students out of 75 participants. Well done: Erica Kim (Riverton) Kitson Wong (Riverton) and Olivia Lin (Riverton).