The coach recruited by World Taekwondo Europe (WTE) for the “Instructor’s Squad” initiative, provided an hour-long online training through the MasTKD.com social media channels (YouTube and Facebook), along with his outstanding daughter Teodora Jovic National Team Member of the junior division.

Besides of the visible work with Mandic and Bogdanovic, Serbia has an historical arsenal made up of other athletes such as Vanja Stanković, gold at the Muju 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, Milos Gladovic, Damir Fejzic or the European Champion, Drasko Jovanov, among others.

Dragan Jović has been in Taekwondo since 1987 and has been a coach since 1991. That was the year when he opened his Dojang, “Taekwondo Klub Galeb”, in Belgrade, where the two Olympic Taekwondo stars from Serbia came from.

 

Mahdi Khodabakhshi showed all his talent in an online class

 

In this way, WT Europe, MasTKD.com and Daedo Internacional seek to keep people active at home. This initiative was born as part of the strategies to mitigate the stress caused by COVID-19, around the world.

In addition, Taekwondo players are intended to remain active in their homes and not suffer a drop in level due to the mandatory recess.

On MasTKD.com platforms, athletes such as Yousef Karami, Joël van der Weide, Vanja Stanković, Elif Yilmaz or Jesús Tortosa, among others, have already taught their lessons.

You can see the playlist here.

 

Alex Siliezar & Claudio Aranda, Exclusive MasTKD.com