About Us

Teaching martial arts for over 40 years!

Mr. Strickland’s school is a long time member of the Flower Mound community where he opened his school in Highland Village in 2001.

He started his training in Taekwondo in 1979 with Master Rick Hoadley at the Family Fitness Training Center in Mobile, Alabama. A member of the American Taekwondo Association (ATA). 

In 1984 he became a full time instructor and soon began teaching his own club in Tillman’s Corner, AL.

 In 1988, he moved to Charlotte, NC and opened his first full-time Taekwondo Plus training center with the United States Taekwondo Alliance (USTA).  

Mr. Strickland served as the North Carolina sport chair for the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union), hosting the 1997 qualifying tournament for the Jr. Olympics Games held in Charlotte that year with many of his students winning gold.

In 2011 he relocated his center to its current location in Flower Mound, TX and began his training in Filipno Martial Arts, incorporating these lessons learned into his thriving Taekwondo program, where he puts martial skills before martial arts.