Meet The Surrey Instructors

Master Andy Whiteley 7th Dan - Thames Valley TKD

Master Whiteley is the ITF Local Area Senior Instructor. He has been coach, captain, and a leading competitor of the ITF England squad for over 15 years and has Silver and Bronze Medals in the ITF World Championships. He is the top TKD instructor, coach, and competitor in the UK.

• 25 years of TaeKwon-Do training winning more medals than we have space to mention, mostly Gold
• ITF World Silver and Bronze medal holder in veterans sparring and patterns
• Combat Hall of Fame Awards Winner 2001
• Presentations to HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Golden Jubilee 2002
• Presentation to HRH Princess Anne for official opening of Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre (home of England national training)
• 15 years of coaching the ITF England Squad
• Instructor of 5 schools in Thames Valley
• Instructed nearly 50 students up to Black Belt

Richard Hamilton 5th Dan International Instructor - Surrey TKD

Richard is the ITF Veterans World Power Champion, and won bronze in sparring. He is also European Patterns Champion has numerous Gold and Silver medals. He has been teaching for 15 years produced numerous members of the England Squad, and other high quality black belt instructors.

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• Won Gold in ITF World Championships 2010, Bronze in Sparring
• Won Gold in European Championships 2010 in patterns, Silver in sparring
• Won Gold in 2009 European Championships in Team Patterns, and Silver in Sparring
• Won Gold medals 2009 in English Championships in sparring and London Open in Breaking
• Gold medal Welsh Championships 2008 Sparring, Gold Medal Power
• Bronze medal English Championships Veteran Sparring 2008
• Silver medal, English Championship Sparring 2006, bronze medal patterns English Championships 2006
• Won bronze medal patterns London Open 2006
• 4th Dan black belt, ITF/UKTA awarded by Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha March, 2007
• 3rd Dan black belt, ITF/UKTA, awarded by Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha in September, 2003
• 2nd Dan black belt, ITF/UKTA, awarded by Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha in March 2002
• 1st Dan black belt, ITF/UKTA, awarded by Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha in March 1997, certificate number GB-1-1527
• All gradings with Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha, beginning in 1993
• Certified and indemnified by the British TaeKwon-Do Council, supported by the Sports Council
• ITF/UKTA umpire qualification class A result 04-UA-05, class B result 03-IB-03, class C result 01-IC-06
• ITF/UKTA instructor qualification class B result 03-UB-03, class C result 02-UC-06

Nick Newberry 2nd Dan National Instructor - Surrey TKD

Mr Newberry is an experienced ITF and UKTA national instructor, and oversees Saturday classes at the University Sports Centre in Guildford.

Mr Newberry has been teaching Taekwon-Do for many years now and has helped with the pioneering of Taekwon-Do in Surrey including opening of new schools, recruiting new members, as well as, teaching the classes himself.

Gary Crowley - 2nd Dan National Instructor

Gary is the current London Open Gold Medal Champion in Sparring in the red belt class, and was awarded his First Dan black belt in September of this year. Great technique Gary!

Annabel Lock - 2nd Dan Junior Black Belt

Annabel is a National Instructor and trains with the England Squad. She is Surrey's Junior team captain and instructs at Duke of Kent School, and Dorking Sports Centre.

Welsh Open 2008 - Bronze in Patterns - 1st Dan
Welsh Open 2008 - Silver in Sparring - 1st Dan
English Open 2009 - Gold in Sparring - 1st Dan
London Open 2009 - Bronze in Patterns - 1st Dan
Welsh Open 2009 - Bronze in Patterns - 1st Dan
Welsh Open 2009 - Silver in Sparring - 1st Dan

David Isles - 1st Dan National Instructor

Mr Isles is one of the primary instructors at Dorking Sports Centre and also instructs at the Duke of Kent School near Ewhurst in Surrey.

He is studying Engineering and is a graduate of Ashcoombe School in Dorking.

David won the Gold Medal in Special Technique at the London Open 2010 and has won numerous other medals in the national championships.

Justin Rickard - 1st Dan National Instructor

Here is Justin performing flying side kick at Surrey Taekwon-Do's summer day training outside in Guildford. Mr Nick Newberry is defending with a high double forearm block.

Justin originally trained in the GTUK with Master Oldham but changed to the UKTA and ITF under Chang Un when he moved to Guildford for work.

Andrew Shenton - 1st Cup Assistant Instructor

Andy won the Overall Senior Colourbelt competitor's award at the UK Championships 2010. He has numerous Gold medals to his achievements and is one of our top up and coming assistant instructors at Surrey.

Andy instructs at Dorking Sports Centre.

Some of Andrew's medals include:

Welsh Open 2008 Yellow Belt Silver Sparring
Welsh Open 2009 Green Belt Gold Sparring
Welsh Open 2009 Green Belt Gold Patterns
London Open 2009 Green Belt Bronze Sparring
Welsh Open 2010 Blue Belt Silver Sparring
Welsh Open 2010 Blue Belt Bronze Patterns
English Open 2010 Blue Belt Gold Sparring
UK Open 2010 Blue Belt Gold Patterns
UK Open 2010 Blue Belt Gold Sparring
UK Open 2010 Blue Belt Gold Power
Scottish Open 2011 Red Belt Gold Sparring
Scottish Open 2011 Red Belt Bronze Patterns
London Open 2011 Red Belt Gold Sparring
London Open 2011 Red Belt Gold Patterns
Welsh Open 2011 Red Belt Gold Sparring
Welsh Open 2011 Red Belt Gold Patterns
Welsh Open 2011 Red Belt Silver Breaking
Surrey Sports Award 2011 Winner