Since 2010

About Dragon Taekwondo Academy

Family owned. Founded in Milton in 2010 by Master Shakeel Chaudhry and run by Master Shakeel and Master Sadia Chaudhry, with schools in Milton, Oakville and Burlington.

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A Dragon Taekwondo black belt bowing with students in class

Master Shak founded Dragon Taekwondo Academy in Milton in 2010. He is an 11-year veteran of the Toronto Police Service and trained in Canada, the United States, Korea, Iran and Mexico, and a national title as Pakistan’s lightweight champion in 1996.

The school’s mission: work alongside parents and students to overcome the barriers they didn’t know they could, and become the individual they didn’t know they were. Hard work pays off, there are no short cuts to success, and you will not get a participation medal for just showing up.

Master Sadia oversees all programs across the three schools, including the Dragon After School Program. Master Arshia Chaudhry, a Canadian junior national silver medallist, is the operations manager. Oakville opened second; Burlington is the newest school.

Dragon students have gone on to international medals in taekwondo and, in the owners’ words, to training as officers in the military. Two of the current instructors, Master Gareth Ireland and Instructor Omar El Haj Khalil, started as students in the Dragon After School Program.

The five values every instructor works to

Students learn the same five values the staff are held to, and in class the Five Tenets of Taekwondo: honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and indomitable spirit.