Instructor

Mr Dave Shillabeer has over 30 years experience in martial arts.

He holds belts in Wado-ryu Karate, Samurai Jiu Jitsu and TAGB Taekwondo, and has also trained in Kickboxing, Judo and Thai Boxing.

He has been studying Taekwondo since 1999 and is currently a 5th Degree Black Belt.

He is a qualified Umpire, Referee and Instructor with the TAGB and has been running his own school based in West Sheffield since January 2009, with a new school opened in Stannington in February 2015.

As with all TAGB instructors he is first aid trained, CRB checked and fully insured.

Alongside being the Club Instructor Mr Shillabeer is also an active competitor and regularly competes in patterns, sparring, musical patterns, power events and destruction.

 He was selected to represent the TAGB at the 100th Anniversary of Rotary International and performed in a demonstration in front of 25,000 people at Birmingham NEC.

He was also selected by 9th Dan National Squad Coach and TAGB committee member Grandmaster Kenny Walton to represent his team in the UK Area Championships.

He represented the winning England Team at the BTC Championships held in June 2012 and  the Silver medal winning England Team at the European Championships, held in Poland in October 2012.

He is 30 times mens black belt National Champion at the English, Welsh and Scottish and British Championships and has also been:

3 x European Bronze Medallist
3 x European Silver Medallist
3 x European Champion
3 x World Bronze Medallist
4 x  World Silver Medallist
and
7 x World Champion.
(current 6 x World Champion)

Over the last 10 years his classes have produced multiple local, regional, national and world champions.

Please see below for a couple of videos of Mr Shillabeer in action and his competitive history to date.

For More Photos and Videos please see the gallery page.

Competitive History