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Craig Harmer is a 7th Dan in Taekwondo and Black Belt in BJJ Coach Craig Harmer has been involved in the martial arts for most of his adult life. Starting his martial arts career in Taekwondo Craig soon moved through the ranks to become highly proficient in his style which eventually led him to become World Champion under the CHITF. Craig wanted to expand his martial arts skills and decided to take on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a way of acquiring ground skills. After 9 years of training in the art Craig attained the level of Black Belt which gave him the skills and qualifications to direct his full-time martial arts academy, Goulburn Martial Arts Academy. Goulburn Martial Arts Academy is a 1st Class facility that serves the people of the Goulburn district from children all the way to senior adults. The purpose of the GMAA is to “lead & set the example of what and who we want our children, teens, and adult members to become.” GMAA is staged in a positive and encouraging environment, and also challenges the members to become the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. Craig sets monthly tasks for students in his children’s program to help them achieve skills on time which also helps develop the character and behavioural traits that we all want to see in our children. Craig believes that Martial Arts is a way of life and is passionate about what he does and is excited to share it with everybody!

Carlo is an Internationally certified 6th Dan Kukkiwon Black belt and has had one of the most successful careers in the history of taekwondo in Australia. During his time as a professional athlete, Carlo was fortunate enough to work alongside many great organisations including the Victorian Institute of Sport and the national suicide prevention charity Life's a Ball. Carlo was also a sought after public speaker and motivator drawing on his experiences as an Olympian. He regularly conducted sessions at Melbourne secondary schools teaching students life-skills and self defence. After the Athens Olympics, Carlo made the decision to retire from competitive sport and focus on fulfilling his dream of opening up his own taekwondo centre. Today Team Carlo Taekwondo is one of the fastest growing schools in Australia.

Bill Poly is a 6th Dan in Kyokushin Karate Shihan Bill Poly is a martial arts leader who has been involved in the teaching the Kyokushin style for over 40 years. One of the originals of the Kyokushin style in Australia, Bill Poly made a name for himself early in competition and renown for his kicking style that few could match. His passion for martial arts has led him from the champion fighter to instructor and mentor to many hundreds of students. The Budo Kyokushin Karate organisation is led by Shihan Bill with many dojo’s operating in the Altona/Brooklyn, Blackburn (headquarters), Templestowe and Warrigul of Melbourne. Shihan Bill understands that Kyokushin Karate is not just about the outward appearance of the art but its inner significance. Shihan Bill earned his passage to travel internationally early in his martial arts career and has trained with all of the greats including mas Oyama himself and Hawwai’s Shihan Bobby Lowe. The friendships established by Shihan Bill extend to most countries where he is held in hig esteem by all who know him. Shihan Bill is a loyal advocate of the Kyokushin system and the instructors who helped in in the early stage of his career including Hanshi Eddie Emin, and Hanshi Tino Ceberano. Shihan Bill now involves himself in the passing down of his art to the young people with whom he mentors and by doing so has become an influential contributor to the communities that he serves. You may contact Shihan bill Poly by sending him a message from the Coach Check page or by visiting his website https://www.budokyokushin.com/

Sensei Carl Sullivan is a 2nd Dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and a 4th Dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate. Sensei Carl is an instructor and international competitor with over 30 years experience training and teaching Karate-do. At the age of nine, Sensei Carl started his Martial Arts journey with Shotokan Karate. Eight years later he pursued his passion for full-contact Karate in Kyokushin. At the age of 12, Sensei Carl was given the responsibility to teach Karate-do. Some students were more than 30 years his senior but respected his ability to teach even at such a young age. The passion to help others by teaching began. Carl promotes his students in National and International competition circuits as well as being currently active himself. He has a wealth of tournament experience and successes including winning the Japan All Martial Arts full contact Championships in 2012. In 2014 Sensei Carl fought in the All Australian Karate Championships placing 2nd to the current Australian Heavyweight Champion. It was an epic match and one of his greatest achievements. Nearly forced into retirement by injury, Sensei Carl had two major hip operations late 2015. Surgeons did not forecast a positive outcome but through belief, physio and light activities (which soon turned into months of intense training) – went on to compete in the World Full Contact Karate Championships in Shibuya, Tokyo 2016.

Hanshi Terry Wingrove is a 9th Dan Black belt in Karate (Jutsu,) 9th Dan Jujutsu, 3rd Dan Judo and 3rd Dan Aikido. Terry Wingrove was born in London on 8th May 1941, his first serious contact with martial arts was practicing Judo as an 11 year old at the Budokwai in London. By the time he was 15 he came under the influence and teaching of the late Vernon Bell. By the time he was 17 he had enrolled in Vernon Bell's Jujitsu and Karate classes, the first classes in Karate anywhere in UK. Terry's drive to improve his knowledge meant he studied with all the Oriental instructors that Vernon Bell invited to the UK including Huang Nam, Tetsugi Murakami both of whom were teaching Yoseikan style Karate. Terry attended the first Aikido course ever held in the UK in 1960 under Tadashi Abe. By late 1960 Terry was travelling to Paris to study with Murakami in Henry Plee's Dojo. Also Terry attended classes at Jim Alcheiks - the great French Karate teacher who studied martial arts in Japan in the 1950's and subsequently was killed in Algeria by anti-terrorist police in 1962. By 1963 Terry was an assistant instructor in Karate and Judo in UK. In December 1963 Terry captained the first ever British Karate team in Paris where he and Jimmy Neal were the highest grades in the UK team at 1st Kyu with Vernon Bell as the national coach. Other members of the team included B Hammond, A. Sherry, A. Smith. In 1965 Vernon Bell invited the JKA to UK and Sensei Kase, Kanazawa, Enoeda and Shirai arrived in the summer of '65. Terry was now 24 and motivated to go to Japan to see for himself and train in Karate, Aikido and Jujitsu. He married in 1965 and went to Cape Town, South Africa following Shirai Sensei who was teaching at Hugh St John Thompson's Dojo. Eventually in 1967 he obtained the necessary work visas and arrived in Japan in August '67. He was employed as a physical education teacher at the Marist International School in Kobe and joined the biggest Karate Dojo in the area which was the Shito-Ryu Dojo of Chojiro Tani and became secretary of the internationl Shukokai organisation training with Kimura and Tani. Tani Sensei was a school and university teacher and very articulate in English and greatly respected as an original student of Mabuni, the founder of Shitoryu. During the mid 60's there was a major and sincere effort to unite all the styles of Karate under the patronage and sponsorship of Japan's richest man Ryoichi Sasakawa. Tani Sensei introduced and recommended Terry to Sasakawa and Terry was appointed to the secretariat of Federation All Japan Karate Organisations (FAJKO) and the World Union of Karate Organisations (WUKO) as the only foreigner working in the organisation of FAJKO and WUKO. Terry held the position of Chief of the Information Dept. Terry helped organise the first World Karate Championships in Japan in 1970 and subsequently travelled the world many times as a WUKO staff member. This was the so-called “golden years” of united Karate with the great Masters such as Nakayama, Yamaguchi, Ohtsuka, Iwata, Tani, Mabuni and many others teaching and grading in unison on instructor courses. Terry attended the first and famous all-styles course in 1972 in Chiba, near Tokyo where he was awarded his 5th Dan. Terry also studied Jujitsu and Aikido and was invited as a Karate instructor to many countries. Terry's position in the secretariat of FAJKO and WUKO opened many doors for him to study with great Masters in martial arts during his 21 year stay in Japan. Terry was awarded his 7th Dan Kyoshi in Goju-ryu Karate-Do in 1989, by Masafumi Suzuki 10th Dan and founder of the Seibukan in Kyoto. Terry received his 8th Dan Hanshi Karate Do in Tokyo in April 2007and his 9th Dan Karate Jutsu with Shihan Menjo in March 2011. Most importantly for Terry in 1972 he started training seriously in Jutsu after a 5 year constant search in Japan for a Jutsu teacher. Jutsu has become the core of all Terry’s teaching and the motto of “Feeling is Believing” has been spread throughout the world by Terry and his students. Terry's passion is teaching a martial art NOT sporting Karate. His research and specialist study of Karate & Jutsu has taken him all over Japan, Okinawa and China. This again was possible as Terry combined his study of martial arts with his business as an Oriental art dealer. Terry enjoys teaching and is in constant demand all over the world, where he has built up a strong following amongst serious students of martial arts. Terry is non-political regarding martial arts and truly enjoys imparting his extensive knowledge to students and teachers of all ages and grades from ALL martial arts irrespective of their styles and/or their affiliation.