95 Mayor's Cup medals in two years. Every student who has sat a dan test has passed.
The numbers
95medals
Won by our students at the Taichung Mayor's Cup over the past two years
37students
Promoted to a new dan grade in 2025 (we expect more than 40 in 2026)
100%
Pass rate for dan tests every year, because no one gets the application form until a coach says they're ready
At Yuan Power, every belt and dan test starts with a coach's assessment.
You only get the application form once your coach says you're ready.That's why our pass rate is 100% every year.
It isn't that the bar is low. Students who aren't ready don't get sent in.
Four students
01
She trained here in 2015, then stopped in third grade.
In ninth grade, she came back.Today she is at university in Singapore.
Every summer and winter break, when she comes home to Taiwan, she comes back to train.
02
In elementary school he played basketball and had only just tried taekwondo. Yuan Ming-che asked him: “Want to do taekwondo? I promise you can win a national title.”
He started training at Yuan Power in 2016. Three years later, in 2019, he won gold in the junior high boys' +78 kg division at the National High School Games. He won again in 2020 and 2021: three in a row. He also placed second at the National Games in 2021 and 2025.
Yuan Ming-che won the same event three years running when he trained in this dojang as a high school student.
News coverage (in Chinese): ETtoday Sports, April 21, 2019
03
In October 2015 he walked in wearing a white belt.
Ten years later, he is Yuan Power's head coach.4th dan. 2nd at the 2018 Korea Open. 1st at both the Fuzhou and Pingtan stages of the 2025 Cross-Strait Taekwondo Exchange Tournament.
04
She has trained here since she was a white belt in 2015, longer than any other current student.
She already coaches, but every week she still trains in the Advanced Class as a student.Her next goal is the National Intercollegiate Athletic Games.
Silver at the 2020 National Junior Taekwondo Championships. That result led to the Taichung City Government's Certificate of Appreciation for her coach, shown below.
To be clear
Every student who competes does so because they want to.
If your child wants to compete, there's a competition team and coaches who have competed at national and international level.
If not, they still move up in rank, get fit and feel at home here.
Nobody is pushed into competing.
An official document
The certificate thanks him for coaching a student to an outstanding result.
It recognizes that Yuan Ming-che can teach, not just fight.
In 2020, our student Chen Yi-en won silver at the 27th National Junior Taekwondo Championships. On January 5, 2021, Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen presented this certificate in person to her coach, Yuan Ming-che.
Document no. 1090290799 (府授運競字第 1090290799 號). We publish the number so you can check it yourself.
Mayor's Cup
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 37 |
| 2026 | 11 | 19 | 28 | 58 |
| Total | 27 | 31 | 37 | 95 |
Events: sparring, poomsae and speed kicking.
From 2002 to 2004, Yuan Ming-che won the National High School Games three years in a row while training in this dojang.
Fifteen years later, his student Yang Ren-hao did the same, from 2019 to 2021.
To compete at the National High School Games, students must first be selected to represent Taichung.
Beyond medals
Most parents don't bring their kids here to compete. Here are changes our students' families, and our students themselves, have told us about.
Yi-en wasn't a healthy child. After she started taekwondo, her mother says, she had far fewer allergies and colds.
Today she is one of our coaches.
One grandmother first came just to bring her granddaughter to class. Then she started training too.
She says stairs feel easier now, and she has more energy than before.
These are their own observations. Every child, and every adult, is different.
The trial class has a small fee, fully credited toward that month's tuition if you sign up that day.
We'll walk you through how classes work, missed-class make-ups and tuition in person on your trial day. Message us on LINE to book a trial.
