The club was founded in 1997 by Gerry Reilly. Gerry is a 5th Dan Black Belt with Taekwondo Chungdokwan Great Britain. Prior to founding
Overton Tae Kwon Do in 1997, he trained under Master Pat Donnelly of Westbourne Tae Kwon Do, and Master Mark Biddlecombe of Southampton
City Tae Kwon Do. He has had the privilege of also training under many senior instructors including Grandmaster Park Hae Man, Grandmaster
Cha Sok Park, and Grandmaster Vincent Cheong. Gerry completed the 12th Class 3 Foreign Instructors Course held at the headquarters
of Taekwondo, The Kukkiwon, in Seoul, Korea in July 2006.
All our black belts contribute to instructing either through taking classes
themselves or by assisting our instructors. The club's active black belts are
5th Dan - Master Gerry Reilly
4th Dan - Master Ian Brown,
Master Kevin Hanks, Master Lynne Firth
3rd Dan - Coleen Reilly, Graham Soane
2nd Dan - Wendy Hayward, Adam Soane, Deborah Paxman, Sue
Thorn, Raul Carpio, William Dinsdale, Anthony Tickner, John Murray
1st Dan - Victoria Soane, Victor Carpio, Matias Carpio, Valerie
Mouret
