Master Cairney

• 7th Dan Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association.
• Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association Certified Master Instructor

47 years of martial arts knowledge and skill…

Training, teaching, developing and growing Korean martial arts and philosophy since 1979.

Opened Australia’s first and Melbourne’s only permanent Hapkido martial arts dojang.

Melbourne’s longest continuous Hapkido school.

• • • 1979 commenced Taekwondo training at 15 years of age – blackbelt 1989.
    • 1993 commenced Hapkido- blackbelt 1997 (International Hapkido Federation, South Korea).
    • 1999 South Korea training trip [#1].
    • 2001 Melbourne Hapkido Academy dojang opened.
    • 2011 National Hapkido competition (Melbourne) coach: demonstration team 1st place.
    • 2012 National Hapkido competition (Brisbane) coach: demonstration team 1st place.
    • 2013 Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association championships coach: demonstration team 1st place; pairs routine 3rd place.
    • 2013 opened Australia’s first permanent purposed built Hapkido dojang.
    • 2014 South Korea trips [#2 & #3].
    • 2015 Hapki-Sundo – Korean Zen meditation, philosophy and exercise program launched.
    • 2017 Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association Branch Master (KwanJangNim).
    • 2018 South Korea team coach at Seongnam KMMKHA regional champioships demonstration teams silver [trip #4].
    • 2018 South Korea team coach at Seongnam KMMKHA regional championships pairs routine gold and bronze medals [trip #4].
    • 2018 – 2nd trip to Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association for the Master-Instructors course, received technical Master certificate.
    • 2019 – 40 years training, teaching, developing and growing Korean martial arts.
    • 2020 – Solar Powered the dojang, protecting our environment by striving for Net Zero.
    • 2021 – 20th Anniversary of Melbourne Hapkido Academy.
    • 2022 – Coach: 2nd Place demonstration team at the Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association 4th World Championships.
    • 2022 – Coach: 10 gold, 19 silver and 1 bronze medal for various events at the Korean Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association 4th World Championships.
    • Melbourne Hapkido Academy is formally affiliated with the Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association (the first and oldest Hapkido association in the World, since 1963).
    • 2024 – 45 years training, teaching, developing and growing Korean martial arts.
    • 2024 – [5th] South Korea trip to attend the Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association Master-Instructors course, Masters certificate.
    • 2025 – continuing to grow.

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Melbourne Hapkido Academy acknowledges we train on the lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation, whose lands were never ceded, and we pay repects to their elders past and present and to Country.  We also acknowledge Master Cairney’s heritage, Jerrinja people of the Yuin Nation of the Illawarra New South Wales and pay our respects to elders past and present and to Country.