Nobody on this floor is teaching from a manual they have not personally been beaten with. Between them, our instructors hold every rank they award.
5th Dan Kukkiwon18 years teaching
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.
“A black belt is a white belt who refused to quit. Everything we teach here is a footnote to that sentence.”
Head Coach, Women's Program
Built the self-defense course she wishes she'd had at sixteen.
Sabina joined the Tigers as a yellow belt at fourteen and never really left. She now runs the women's self-defense program and the junior girls' squad, and has represented Nepal at three South Asian championships. Her classes are famous for being warm for the first ten minutes and merciless for the next fifty.
Sparring Coach, Competition Squad
Watches film the way other people watch football.
Rajan runs the competition squad's tactical program. He treats a three-round match as a solvable problem — spacing, timing, scoring geometry — and has the round-by-round notebooks to prove it. Under his corner, Tigers athletes have taken four national golds in the last three seasons.
Director, Youth Programs
Can hold the attention of twenty five-year-olds. Simultaneously.
Anil designs and leads the Little Tigers and Kids curriculum. A former primary school teacher, he brought a classroom pedagogue's understanding of attention spans to the dojang — which is why our under-tens can hold a stance longer than most adults.
Poomsae Coach
Believes a single stance can be practised for a decade.
The youngest instructor on the floor and the most exacting. Pratik came up through the Tigers' own junior ranks, took a national poomsae title at nineteen, and now teaches forms with a precision that borders on the geometric. New students find him intimidating for about a week.
Book a trial class and stand on the mat with the people above. It will be the most useful hour of your week.