Instructors
Master David Hiltz
8h Dan Black Belt
Owner / Master Instructor
With over 40 years in the Martial Arts, Master David Hiltz is a 7th Degree certified International Instructor of ITF Taekwon-Do . Master Hiltz is also Provincial director and representative of ITF Taekwon-Do in Nova Scotia.
He holds over 50 National and Provincial tournament victories including Eastern Canadian Champion (1996), National Silver Medalist (1997) and twice competed at the World Championships in England. He has been teaching for HRM Recreation Department programs for the last 19 years and has done Bully Proofing classes in many of the schools and organization in HRM.
Master Hiltz was trained by some of the best Masters in Canada including 9th Degree Grand Master Pierre Laquerre and former President Master Andrew Blake. Having been a National coach 6 times, Master Hiltz has traveled with the Canadian team to Italy twice, Ireland, New Zealand, Honduras and Canada. Master Hiltz's Taekwon-Do students have represented Canada for the last 8 World Championships. Master Hiltz’s first discipline was boxing.
He started amateur boxing and training with such local names as Ralph Hollett and Chris Clark when he was 19 years old. During his 6 years of training he had the honor of training and sparring with past Heavyweight World Champion, Lenox Lewis. With the combination of the 2 disciplines, Hiltz Taekwon-Do produces many top skilled students.
Mr. McElhinney
5th Dan Black Belt
Instructor
Bruce started Taekwon-Do at the age of 39 to spend time with his son who had started a year before. They trained together for 10 years, going to class 3-5 times a week, traveling around the country for tournaments and seminars and testing for belts. After testing for his 2nd Degree Blackbelt, he moved on to other things, but he continued training and testing until he achieved his 5th Degree Black Belt in December 2020.
Other highlights include winning gold medals at two Eastern Canadian Tournaments, and watching a student that he helped train, win gold at the World Tournament in Italy. His main focus now is to teach this wonderful art to people of all ages who have joined Champions Taekwon-do, and help them reach their goal of becoming a Blackbelt.
Grand Master Scott Downey
9th degree
Champions Technical Director
Grand Master Downey is President of the International Taekwon-Do Federation Newfoundland and Labrador (ITFNL) and technical director for ITF Union Canada.
He started his Taekwon-Do training in 1979 under Grand Master Jong Soo Park who was a pioneer of Taekwon-Do in Canada.
G.M. Downey started teaching in St. Johns Newfoundland in 1990 and is still teaching today.
He was promoted by General Choi Hong Hi, legendary founder of Taekwon-Do for his 6th degree. He also attended 6 International instructor courses taught by General Choi including the first and only Masters seminar taught by General Choi in Vienna Austria in January 2002.
Grand Master Downey and his wife Master Cathy Downey, 8th Dan, travelled the world as umpire A level referees in 6 World Championships in Canada, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina and Ireland.
He created the lyrics for "The Ode to General Choi" as a gift to General Choi.
He assisted General Choi with his final contribution to ITF Taekwon-Do prior to his death in 2002 with the project entitled 4 year University Taekwon-Do Master plan and also developed a training manual entitled "Sport Psychology for the ITF Taekwon-Do athlete".
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