Our coaches
Four coaches. Seventeen dan grades between them. All former competitors.
“In October 2015, Yuan Power took in a group of white belts.
Ten years later, two of them coach here.”
The team
Who teaches your child
Founder Yuan Ming-che, head coach Lai Kuan-yu, and coaches Chen Yi-en and Wu Chun-ping. All classes are taught in Mandarin.
Yuan Ming-cheFounder
Coaching since 2010
2008 Asian Taekwondo Championships silver medalist
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Lai Kuan-yuHead coach
Coaching since 2020
Started here as a white belt in October 2015
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Chen Yi-enCoach
Coaching since 2025
Our longest-training student, now teaching the next group
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Wu Chun-pingCoach
Coaching since 2022
Former member of the ROC Armed Forces Honor Guard
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Yuan Ming-che, 7th dan
Yuan Ming-che founded Yuan Power Taekwondo in 2015. He has coached since 2010 and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University.
He trained in this same dojang as a high school student. From 2002 to 2004 he won gold at the National High School Games three years in a row. In 2015, his own coach retired and asked him to come back and take over. So those three gold medals say something about this place, too: it has produced a national champion before.
He won gold three years running at three different levels: high school, university, and the National Games. Internationally, he took silver at the 2008 Asian Taekwondo Championships.
In 2021, Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen presented him with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Taichung City Government for coaching a student who won silver at the 27th National Junior Taekwondo Championships. His results show he could fight. The certificate shows he can teach.
Today he also trains the coaches. Once or twice a month, he runs a session for the whole coaching team: how to teach young children, technique and poomsae standards, safety and injury care, conditioning, competition tactics, and talking with parents. Whichever coach your child gets, they are working to the same standard.
| Year | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2002, 2003, 2004 | National High School Games | Gold, three in a row |
| 2002 | World Junior Taekwondo Championships | Silver |
| 2005 | National President's Cup Taekwondo Championships | Gold |
| 2006, 2007, 2008 | National Intercollegiate Athletic Games | Gold, three in a row |
| 2007, 2009, 2011 | National Games | Gold, three in a row |
| 2008 | Asian Taekwondo Championships | Silver |
| 2008 | World University Taekwondo Championships | Bronze |
| 2009 | East Asian Games | Bronze |
Head coach
Lai Kuan-yu, 4th dan
In October 2015, just after Yuan Power opened, Lai Kuan-yu walked in wearing a white belt. Ten years later, he is the head coach.
Yuan Ming-che coached him the whole way. He placed second at the National High School Games in 2018, second at the Korea Open the same year, and third at the Malaysia Open in 2019. He graduated from National Taiwan University of Sport, where he studied combat sports, and has coached since 2020.
Parents of three- to six-year-olds often ask whether the coaches can handle children that young. Lai holds a Level C early-childhood fitness instructor certificate. He also teaches taekwondo at three local elementary schools that partner with us.
| Year | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | National Youth Taekwondo Championships (全國青少年錦標賽) | 3rd |
| 2018 | National High School Games | 2nd |
| 2018 | Korea Open | 2nd |
| 2019 | Malaysia Open | 3rd |
| 2020 | National High School Games | 3rd |
| 2025 | 13th Cross-Strait Taekwondo Exchange Tournament (海峽兩岸跆拳道交流大賽), Fuzhou and Pingtan | 1st at both |
Coach
Chen Yi-en, 3rd dan
Chen Yi-en started as a white belt in October 2015, the same month as Lai Kuan-yu. She has trained without a break for eleven years, longer than any other current student.
When Yuan Ming-che coached the taekwondo team at Focus Junior High School (福科國中) in Xitun, she was the team's first captain. In 2025 she came back to Yuan Power to teach the next group of children.
She is currently studying sport and health sciences at National Taiwan University of Sport. She already coaches, but she still trains in the Advanced Class as a student. Her next goal is the National Intercollegiate Athletic Games.
As a small child she was often unwell. After she started taekwondo, her mother says, she had far fewer allergies and colds. That is her mother's observation, and every child is different. One of her strengths is teaching young children.
| Year | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 27th National Junior Taekwondo Championships (全國少年跆拳道錦標賽) | Silver |
| 2023 | Taichung Mayor's Cup Taekwondo Championship | Gold |
| 2025 | BIG BOSS International Taekwondo Championships | Silver |
Coach
Wu Chun-ping, 3rd dan
Wu Chun-ping graduated from National Taiwan University of Sport, where he studied combat sports, and served in the ROC Armed Forces Honor Guard. The honor guard demands discipline, posture and composure under pressure. Those are the same things many parents hope taekwondo will give their children.
He has coached since 2022 at a taekwondo school in Changhua County, and at a kindergarten and an elementary school in Taichung. He has taught everyone from kindergartners to elementary school students.
In 2025 he won first place at both the Fuzhou and Pingtan stages of the 13th Cross-Strait Taekwondo Exchange Tournament, the same year and the same event as Lai Kuan-yu. He also holds a Level C senior fitness instructor certificate. Adults who want to start from zero can join our Basic Class or Weekend Class.
| Year | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | National Chairman's Cup (全國理事長盃), sparring | 2nd |
| 2024 | Cross-Strait Taekwondo Exchange Tournament, Fuzhou | 3rd |
| 2025 | 13th Cross-Strait Taekwondo Exchange Tournament, Fuzhou and Pingtan | 1st at both |
At a glance
Three facts you can check
17dan
Black belt grades across four coaches (7 + 4 + 3 + 3)
4of 4
Studied sport at university: three at National Taiwan University of Sport (one still studying), one at National Taiwan Normal University
2coaches
Started here as white belts in October 2015
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