01
ATHLETE
Standards are learned under pressure.
National-team level competition, Iranian league clubs and international events shaped the performance standard everything else grew from.
Career archive ↗From elite competition to modern martial-arts education
Hamed
Konarivand
Former Iranian national-team athlete. Taekwondo master. Coach. Researcher. Founder of Koryo and creator of TaekFunDo — building better systems for how martial arts are taught, experienced and scaled.
30+ years
inside Taekwondo — athlete to founder
Ilam · Iran → France · Switzerland
One person. Four lenses.
Not a résumé.
A system of experiences.
Athlete, coach, builder, analyst — not separate chapters, but different ways of seeing the same question: how do people learn, perform and keep progressing?
02
COACH
Teaching changes what you think you know.
Working with children and athletes across Switzerland and France turned technique into a deeper study of attention, confidence and progression.
The story ↗03
BUILDER
Problems in practice become systems.
Koryo, TaekFunDo and MyTaek grew from real friction inside martial arts — clubs, classes, children, coaches and progression.
Project universe ↗04
ANALYST
Step outside the match and read the system.
Research, media analysis and public commentary turn lived experience into questions that can be tested, debated and shared.
Media & research ↗30+Years inside Taekwondo
2017Koryo in Europe
2019TaekFunDo introduced
2025Peer-reviewed research
Selected chronicle
One career.
Four transformations.
The important dates are not just milestones. Each one changed the way Hamed understood Taekwondo — athlete to teacher, teacher to builder, builder to researcher.
BEGINNING
Learn the language of the sport.
Taekwondo begins at age six in Ilam. Technique comes first; discipline and identity follow.
COMPETITION ARCHIVEPRESSURE
Test it at elite level.
Iranian league clubs, national-team involvement and international competition turn training into measurable performance.
REBUILD
Take the knowledge somewhere new.
Europe becomes the next arena. Koryo starts growing across Geneva, Vaud and the Pays de Gex.
QUESTION
Redesign the first experience.
TaekFunDo asks a different question: what should martial arts feel like to a four-year-old?
SYSTEMS
Turn experience into tools and evidence.
MyTaek, research and media work extend the practice beyond the mat — into software, studies and public analysis.
Competition → Coaching → Method → Product → ResearchFull career record
Selected projects
Systems built to
move Taekwondo forward.
01 / ORGANIZATION
Koryo
A living network of dojangs across Switzerland and France — the place where coaching philosophy meets actual students, families and progression.
Practice, at scale↗
02 / METHOD
Taek
FunDo
A child-centered learning system where play, story and Taekwondo technique become one progression language.
Learning redesigned↗
03 / PLATFORM
MyTaek
Software born from club reality — belts, grading, attendance and progression designed around Taekwondo rather than generic fitness logic.
The operating layer↗
Research / not decoration
Practice creates questions.
Evidence changes practice.
The research program starts with problems seen in real classes — not with topics invented for a publication list.
Media / external record
A voice from inside
the sport.
Broadcast analysis, federation references, education work and conference appearances — outside sources that map the work beyond this website.