The BE Team:

At Be Taekwondo, we pride ourselves in the quality of our Martial Arts instruction, providing fun, engaging and informative lessons that accomodate to students of all ages, skill levels and abilities.

Our coaches have extensive experience across coaching general classes and sport-specific coaching.

Master Jay
Co-Owner, Head Instructor

Jay first began her taekwondo journey with Master Alex Sootho from Musa Taekwondo in Sydney. Her talents were quickly recognised and was quickly put into competitions, and started training as an instructor, under his tutelage.

Jay actively competed in both poomsae and sparring, eventually choosing to pursue sparring with more focus.

Jay was selected as 1 of 5 athletes from NSW to take part in the inaugural Elite Athlete Program for High Performance Sparring and later went on to earn numerous state, national and international titles.

After graduating from the University of Sydney, Jay relocated to Melbourne and pursued full-time work within tech, whilst teaching at clubs in Melbourne. She successfully coached numerous athletes to podium finishes and state titles in both Poomsae and Sparring.

Now at Be, Jay is excited to provide excellent martial arts instruction, but most importantly to pass on her love for the sport and martial art to all her students.

  • Working with Children’s Check (exp. 2030)

  • First Aid & CPR Certificate

  • AusTKD Coaches Accreditation (Poomsae & Sparring)

  • B. Eng & M.D (University of Sydney)

  • 11x NSW State Champion

  • 4x Aus National Champion

Master Daniel Trenton
Founder, Co-Owner
Olympic Silver Medallist (2000 Sydney Olympic Games)

Daniel is renowned as our very own Olympic Silver Medallist, earning this title at the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney. Daniel also competed at the 2004 Olympics, and was then the Head Coach of the Australian Team at the 2008 Olympics - making him the most highly decorated taekwondo athlete and coach.

Daniel then went on to contribute as Director of Sports for Sports Taekwondo Australia (now Australian Taekwondo), and was appointed as President of the International Olympic Committee as an Athlete Role Model for the Singapore Youth Olympic Games in 2010, and by the Asia Olympic Council as Head of Youth Olympic Camp in 2013.

He was also appointed to World Taekwondo as Chair of Education and Development and Chair Person of the Juridicial Committee for the World Organisation.

And of course, Daniel founded Be Taekwondo in Brunswick East to service the local community in which he was raised.