How far can I push performance?
Competition shaped discipline, standards and the ability to work under pressure.
The person behind the systems
I learned the sport.
Then I started questioning it.
Hamed Konarivand's story moves from competition to coaching, from coaching to education, and from education to research and product-building.
1987Ilam, Iran1993Taekwondo begins2017Europe2019+Systems & research
IRAN → FRANCE / SWITZERLAND
Three shifts
The career changed
when the questions changed.
How do different people actually learn?
Teaching children, beginners and competitors turned technique into a study of attention, confidence and progression.
What should the system look like?
Koryo, TaekFunDo and MyTaek turn recurring coaching problems into organizations, methods and tools.
Hamed Konarivand was born on 15 April 1987 in Ilam, Iran. He started Taekwondo at six, entered competition as a child, and grew through Iran’s competitive system into national-team level sport.
His career has moved through three distinct phases: athlete, coach, and builder. The first gave him the standards of elite competition. The second forced him to understand how very different students learn. The third turned those lessons into organizations, methods and products.
From Iran to Europe
Between the mid-2000s and early 2010s, Hamed competed within Iran’s elite club structure, including Saipa and Azad University, alongside national-team involvement and international tournaments. His previous official biography records national and international medals across youth and senior categories.
In 2017, Hamed and his wife, Afarin Djavanrouh, moved to France and began building Koryo Taekwondo Club. Today Koryo operates across Geneva, Vaud and the Pays de Gex, with programs for young children, juniors and older students.
Coaching became system design
Working with young children exposed a recurring problem: traditional martial-arts instruction often asks a four-year-old to behave like a miniature adult. In 2019, Hamed introduced TaekFunDo, a child-centered approach that keeps the technical foundations of Taekwondo while using play, storytelling, progressive goals and age-appropriate challenges.
“The question is not how to make children tolerate training. The question is how to design training they can grow inside.”
Founder & researcher
Hamed founded Koryo, created TaekFunDo and later founded MyTaek, a digital Taekwondo platform. His recent research has examined gamified martial arts, motor-skill development, discipline and AI-driven storytelling in young practitioners.
He also appears as a Taekwondo analyst in international Persian-language media and works with school programs in Switzerland. Swiss Taekwondo lists him as the contact for Koryo Taekwondo Club, while La Découverte identifies him as its Taekwondo lead in Geneva and Mies.
Current focus
Hamed’s work now connects coaching, research and product design: building stronger local clubs, improving how children experience martial arts, and developing tools that make progression clearer for coaches, athletes and families.