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The founder and chief instructor of No’s Taekwondo is Ke-Hyung No. Ke-Hyung was born in Korea and in his youth spent four years in full-time training at the Korean National Yudo College which has produced some of the finest martial artists of our time and is now known as Yong-In University. Every evening, he undertook taekwondo training at the Korea Gymnasium, the home of many famous names in Korean taekwondo.
 30th Anniversary of WTF
In 1965, he came to Australia at the invitation of the Australian Judo Federation to teach both judo and taekwondo, which at that time was known as ‘Korean karate’. He ran specialist courses for Australian instructors, grading them to higher ranks, and also trained many successful national and international contestant, becoming the most respected name in martial arts in the country. In 1970, he returned to Korea for a further 12 months training before opening his own school in Ringwood, Victoria, naming it Ke-Hyung No’s Martial Arts Centre. This moved to full-time premises the following year and was renamed No’s Martial Arts and Fitness Centre. In 1982, land was purchased in Croydon, Victoria and construction was undertaken for the first full-time purpose-built martial arts centre in the southern hemisphere, with an area exceeding 300 square metres. With the surge of interest in taekwondo this became known as No’s Taekwondo and it is estimated that some 7500 students have passed through its doors.
 Ke Hyung No and Dick Robinson 1967
Today Ke Hyung No simply enjoys concentrates on teaching Taekwondo at his club.
Ke-Hyung No was promoted to taekwondo 8th dan in 1988 and judo 7th dan in 1989. He remains active in the field of taekwondo and now runs classes at the Bayswater Primary School Gymnasium on the corner of Mountain Highway and Birch Street in Bayswater (Melway Map 64 E 4). |
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