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    There is a person behind every result

    WTA’s early seniors trained together, helped teach and rehearsed demonstrations. Follow the people who went on to represent Malaysia in Poomsae, build careers or take up another sport.

    Start with the shared years

    Meet the early senior group and follow the events that connect WTA training with Malaysian Poomsae and Team ARENA.

    Team ARENA group · club archive.

    The people and events that shaped WTA

    See how training under Grandmaster Eng-Sin Tan, Malaysian Poomsae competition and Team ARENA performances shaped WTA.

    A taekwondo presentation group from the Jin Kun Yong archive.

    The work between the camps

    Jin Kun, Sara Yap and Jun Ee trained together at WTA. Follow their work between national Poomsae camps and the results they went on to earn for Malaysia.

    From the WTA archive

    Students and coaches in taekwondo uniforms pose together in a sports hall with Malaysian and Korean flags.
    An earlier training session with Korean coaches in a sports hall. WTA archive.
    A group in evening clothes poses together indoors at WTA’s 2017 anniversary dinner.
    A group photograph at WTA’s 20th anniversary dinner in 2017. WTA archive.

    Follow a person’s journey

    See who helped teach at WTA, who trained for international competition, and where study, work or a second sport took them.

    Sara Yap Khim Wen. Photograph published in HELP University’s Meet Sara Yap profile.

    Sara Yap: from pair silver to individual gold

    Sara won SEA Games silver with Jun Ee, then individual gold in Kuala Lumpur and Asian Games bronze. She also taught taekwondo at WTA.

    Kok Jun Ee with his 2015 SEA Games medals. TAR UMT, 3 July 2015.

    Jun Ee takes on a second martial art

    A SEA Games Poomsae medallist, Jun Ee later placed joint third in a white-belt masters division at the 2026 IBJJF Asian Jiu-Jitsu Championship.

    Choo Hong Kai. Portrait from Connect Chiropractic’s team biography.

    Hong Kai: training, demonstration and a profession

    Hong Kai helped teach and rehearsed with WTA’s seniors. His path also included Malaysian team competition and co-founding Connect Chiropractic.

    A taekwondo presentation group from the Jin Kun Yong archive.

    The team-mates alongside Jin Kun

    Jin Kun trained and helped teach with WTA’s seniors. Jun Ee and Sara later appeared beside him in Malaysian team and pair results.

    Explore an event or meet more people

    Browse the competition and performance archive, or meet WTA’s teaching and programme contributors.

    Sources

    Early WTA training history: Jin Kun Yong’s October 2026 account. Each story credits its sporting and professional sources.