About International Taekwon-Do

International Taekwon-Do (ITKD) is the national organisation we are members of. It is very much a “family” organisation, having grown from a few small clubs in Palmerston North and Wellington in the early 1970s. These clubs produced black belts that in turn started new clubs, and the organisation grew. Today we have around 90 schools nationwide.

International Taekwon-Do was first registered in New Zealand as an Incorporated Society in 1981 and is today affiliated with the International Taekwon-Do Federation. Each and every year since then International Taekwon-Do has run regional and National Tournaments for its members, as well as hundreds of other events. It is recongnised by the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).

In recent years our competitors have made huge impact on the international tournament scene and were placed first at the ITF World Championships hosted in Wellington, 2011.

Find out what the benefits of belonging to International Taekwon-Do are here.