Grand Master Barry Partridge

Grand Master Partridge is an 9th degree black belt with the World Taekwondo Hanmookwon Federation, 8th degree black belt with Kukkiwon (the World Taekwondo Headquarters) and 4th degree black belt with the US Central Hapkido Association under President In Hui Won.

Grand Master Partridge has over 45 years of martial arts training experience. He is the founder and president of United Taekwondo Academy. He founded United Taekwondo Academy in 1996 in Winston Salem, NC. He has since opened locations around the state.

Grand Master Partridge is a 3-time US National Champion medalist, 4-time US National Team Trials Medalist, and US International Champion medalist. He has successfully trained over 20 national and international champions. He was awarded the US Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2002.

Grand Master Partridge personally trains all instructors and is physically active teaching in classes.

MASTER SHAY TIPPENS

Master Tippens is a 6th degree black belt. He has over 20 years of martial arts experience and has been learning from and instructing with Grand Master Partridge and United Taekwondo Academy since 2010. Master Tippens is a devoted husband and proud father.

Master Tippens is also an active competitor and has won national in and international medals in Poomsae, Sparring, and Breaking.

His goals are to continue improving and challenging himself through competition. He also wishes to earn a spot on the National Poomsae team and represent the USA internationally.

MASTER GEORGE WEBB

Master Webb is a 6th degree black belt. He was born in Tennessee.

He is a graduate of Michigan State University with a B.Sc. in Medical Technologies. He has also done Post Graduate work at the University of Maryland.

Additionally, he is also a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator in North Carolina and has rescued animals from hummingbirds to tigers.

Master Webb has been practicing Taekwondo for 28 years.

He was the 1998 US National Champion in Ultra’s Light Division Sparring.

MASTER ZEPH PUTNAM II

Master Putnam is a 5th degree black belt. He was born and raised in Fuquay Varina, NC.

He Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2018, with a B.Sc. in Chemistry. He was also a band member in the Agricultural & Technical State University Blue and Gold Marching Machine, specializing in trombone from 2013 -2015. Where the team was a 2-time first place winner of the Honda Battle of the Bands.

Master Putnam started his taekwondo career at the age of 4 in 1999 and has never stopped training since. At the age of 5, Master Putnam began his sparring campaign and has since gone on to become a 4-time Nation Sparring Team member representing the United States in several countries.

Along with teaching the traditional art of Taekwondo, he will continue to compete in the sport of Taekwondo with aspirations of becoming an Olympic champion.

MASTER JOE DICKINSON

Master Dickinson is a 5th degree black belt. He was born in Houston, Texas, but has spent most of his life in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

He started taekwondo in 2002 and has over 18 years of taekwondo experience.

Master Dickinson is currently a student at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro where he is aiming for a degree in Finance. He is aspiring to earn his MBA there as well.

MASTER LI PARTRIDGE – Office Manager

Marci is a 4th degree Black Belt. She was born in China and has traveled worldwide.

Her career began as a registered nurse, then a World Bank consulting firm officer. She worked 5 years as a Grand Prix event manager. She studied 3 years in Foreign Trade and received a MS Degree in Service Management from University of Buckingham in the UK.

Her daughter Sophie Clark is a 3rd degree Black Belt and a STORM Team Leader at UTA.