Chandragiri, NepalEst. 2025
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World Taekwondo certified instruction for kids, teens and adults — taught by national-team coaches on Chandragiri's oldest mat. Your first class is free.
Anyone can teach a kick.
We teach the person throwing it.
There are cheaper dojangs in Kathmandu, and faster ones. There is not a more honest one.
Kukkiwon certified
Every Dan grade we issue is registered with World Taekwondo headquarters in Seoul and recognised internationally. Your belt means the same thing in Kathmandu as it does in Korea.
Coached by competitors
All five instructors have competed at national level or above. Nobody on this floor is teaching from a manual they have not personally been beaten with.
Eight students per instructor
We cap class ratios rather than fill halls. It is the difference between being corrected once a month and being corrected every session.
Nobody is fast-tracked
You grade when your technique is ready, not when your fees say so. It is the slowest way to a black belt and the only one that produces one.
Every Dan grade we award is registered with the Kukkiwon in Seoul. It means the same thing anywhere in the world.
A class for every age, and every reason for walking in.
Six programs, one curriculum, no shortcuts. Start wherever you are.
certified
“A black belt is a white belt who refused to quit. Everything we teach here is a footnote to that sentence.”
Bikash Tamang
Founder & Chief Instructor
Bikash Tamang opened Chandragiri Tigers in 2007 in a rented hall with nine students and a borrowed set of pads. A former national team competitor, he has since coached twelve athletes to national medals and certified more than two hundred black belts. He teaches the same way he competed: quietly, relentlessly, and with an unreasonable belief in what a beginner can become.
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Years on the mat
Teaching in Chandragiri since 2007.
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Students trained
From four-year-olds to grandparents.
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Black belts promoted
Every one certified by Kukkiwon, Seoul.
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National medals
Across kyorugi and poomsae divisions.
Eighteen years, one room, ten thousand mornings.
What the mat
gives back
Parents, competitors, and adults who arrived certain they had left it too late.
“My son was the boy who hid behind my leg at birthday parties. Two years later he stood in front of forty people and broke a board. He didn't look at me once. He didn't need to.”
Stand up. Bow in. Begin.
No experience, no uniform and no commitment required — just turn up. The hardest part of a black belt is walking through the door the first time.