Master Cairney
Branch Owner & Grand Master
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.
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- 1979 commenced Korean martial arts training, achieving 2nd Dan Taekwondo.
- 1997 1st Dan Hapkido blackbelt (IHF).
- 1999 South Korea training trip, national demonstration team [#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 (KMMKHA), Seongnam championships coach: demonstration team 1st place; pairs routine 3rd place.
- 2013 opened Australia’s first permanent purposed built Hapkido dojang.
- 2014 KMMKHA South Korea national masters courses [training trips #2 & #3].
- 2017 KMMKHA National Master (
KwanJangNim).
- 2018 coach at Seongnam KMMKHA regional champioships demonstration teams silver, pairs routine gold and bronze medals [trip #4].
- 2018 – Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association for the national Master – Instructors course, receiving South Korean Hapkido Technical Master certificate [trip #5].
- 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 KMMKHA 10 gold, 19 silver and 1 bronze medal for various events at the Korean Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association 4th World Championships.
- 2024 – 45 years training, teaching, developing and growing Korean martial arts.
- 2024 – South Korea trip to attend the Korea Moo Moo Kwan Hapkido Association Master course [trip #6]
- 2025 onwards, 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.
