About Our Taekwondo Club
About Quest Taekwondo
Quest Taekwondo was founded in 1988 by Master Mike McKenzie (7th Dan) and is an established and renowned club throughout the UK. With over 45 years experience, including Sports Manager for the London 2012 Olympic Games Taekwondo Event, Mike McKenzie offers an exceptional training experience for students.
Our values are to Educate, Entertain and Inspire, and we focus on those values. Taekwondo will build self-confidence, self-discipline, integrity and courage to live your life.
Olympian Caden Cunningham
Quest Taekwondo has hosted Olympian Seminars since 2000 and more recently Paralympian Seminars. 2024 marks the first time that one of our own has returned to us as the Olympian. Caden Cunningham was a Quest Taekwondo Athlete representing Quest as a Cadet and Junior Athlete before graduating to the World Class Performance Programme and moving to GB's National Training Centre in Manchester.
Caden shares the Quest mission of Educating, Entertaining and Inspiring and he did this in some style when he visited the Quest Taekwondo Centre for his first UK Seminar in September.
The day was split into two 3 hour sessions with guest clubs attending the first session and Quest members the second. The Olympic Silver medallist recalled the times he had trained at the Olympian Seminars and the influence it had on him. Everybody had a great day and Caden promised to return soon!
The London 2012 Olympics
Between the 8th and 11th of August 2012, 128 athletes from 63 countries vied for top honours at the London Olympic Games.
Quest's founder and Chief Instructor, Mike McKenzie, had a very key role to play at The Games. Firstly, he was recruited as the Technical Operations Manager, and then later promoted to Sports Manager in charge of Taekwondo at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Karen Moody, Rebecca McKenzie and Laura Holness, all Quest Taekwondo Black Belt members, were also all selected to be Games Makers at the event and had key roles to play.
The London 2012 Olympic Taekwondo event was a huge success and was hailed by the World Taekwondo Federation as the "best taekwondo competition ever".
