About us
Concord TaeKwonDo America
martial arts school in Concord, NC
What do we do?
We build leaders with..
Respect
Confidence
Focus
Fitness
Discipline
Self Defense
You have our full attention
We’re a full time martial arts school
TaeKwonDo has been our full time job since we opened in the summer of 1995. We’ve grown a lot in the following two decades. And have been changing lives through martial arts ever since.
Our school has over 140 students and we have classes every single weekday! We couldn’t be more proud of the work that we do. Just like you, we are always trying to improve and grow a little bit each day.
We’re in Concord
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2353 Concord Lake Rd, Concord, NC
Our core values
At the core of everything we teach here at Concord TaeKwonDo America, these tenets of TaeKwonDo are in the spotlight.
We recite these tenets at the beginning of class. Students are expected to demonstrate them wherever they go: during class, in school, and at home.
Tenets of TaeKwonDo
Courtesy
Integrity
Perseverance
Self-Control
Indomitable Spirit
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Meet our chief instructor
Sean Baxter
“I couldn’t be more proud to be chief instructor and owner of Concord TaeKwonDo America. We’ve been changing lives with TaeKwonDo for over 25 years. With many more years ahead of us, I can say it has been a truly grand experience. And one I wouldn’t trade for anything.”
A little about our instructor
“In 1984, The Karate Kid was released in movie theaters. That fall, I found myself in karate class, wearing a white belt, ready to learn everything there was to know about it.”
11 years, and many belts later, he founded Concord TaeKwonDo America. Over the past 30 years our instructor team has taught over 3,000 students.
In 2023, he was awarded the rank of 8th degree master instructor by TaeKwonDo America.
In his younger years, he served in the US Army as a 11B rifleman and anti-armor specialist in the 113th Mechanized Infantry Company at Fort Dix. In college he studied computer science, and spent many years in the IT industry, asking people “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
When he’s not teaching TaeKwonDo, he can often be found training people in proper firearms handling as a Certified NRA, USCCA, and SC/NC DOJ Concealed Carry Instructor.
Meet the Concord TaeKwonDo team
we’re here to help you succeed!
Leo Rivas-Montoya
4th Degree Black Belt
Michael Rinaldo
4th Degree Black Belt
Kori Chitty
3rd Degree Black Belt
Jonah Santos
3rd Degree Black Belt
Gianna Rinaldo
3rd Degree Black Belt
An Cao Truong
3rd Degree Black Belt
Ragan Baker
1st Degree Black Belt
Logan Mayhew
2nd Degree Black Belt
Shyam Parmar
2nd Degree Black Belt
Cole Smith
2nd Degree Black Belt
Anne Rathnau
2nd Degree Black Belt
Adeleigh Kadel
1st Degree Black Belt
Tim Rathnau
1st Degree Black Belt
Ethan Arellano
1st Degree Black Belt
Brian Jones-Washburn
1st Degree Black Belt
Proud member of TaeKwonDo America
We are one of over 40 TaeKwonDo America schools across the country. Each school is independently owned and operates following the same guidelines of excellence.
We’re a community of real people – passionate TaeKwonDo school owners and students who all love martial arts as much as we do.
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