The Afghan Taekwondo Federation... Biography

Mr Usman Dildar started practicing Taekwondo in Afghanistan in 1988 and trained regularly with his brother, Master Yousuf Dildar. In 1992 Mr Usman Dildar was elected as the Secretary General of the Afghan Taekwondo Federation and, along with his brother, helped many Afghans achieve great success in Taekwondo.

He departed Afghanistan in 1993, traveled to the UK and was teaching students at his local college.
In 1994 he received his 4th Dan certificate from the WTF and by 1995 he had established London Taekwondo Academy. His first branch was opened in West Acton, London and as the club progressed another branch was needed and he started classes in Hanwell, London.

In 1997 he completed a National Referee course, conducted by the BTCB and was awarded a Class 2 Technical Referee Pass. In 1998 his brother came to the UK, and by 1999 another LTA branch was opened in Southall, Middlesex.

In the year 2000, Usman traveled to Portsmouth to participate as a judge in the 3rd BTCB International Technical Championship and was awarded a Class 1 BTCB Technical Pass. LTA opened a Ladies Class in Hanwell, London, which concentrates more on fitness and self- defence. In July Usman went to Korea to participate in the 3rd Foreign Instructors Training Course at Kukkiwon (The World Taekwondo Headquarters). It was a great experience for him and consisted of both theory and practical examinations and he received a certificate of qualification.

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Master Yousuf Dildar

Master Yousuf Dildar started training Taekwondo about 20 years ago, and since then he has achieved tremendous success. Master Dildar started teaching Taekwondo in Afghanistan and went on to teach in Pakistan. In the year 1988 Master Dildar was able to establish the Afghan Sports Association, by doing so he helped thousands of Afghans to take the opportunity to learn Taekwondo, whilst they were immigrating from Afghanistan to Pakistan. As well as the Taekwondo clubs, he also organized English language courses for the refugees.

In 1992 he was able to establish the Afghan Taekwondo Federation and succeeded in gaining recognition from the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Korea. After registering the ATF to the WTF he promoted more than one thousand Afghan Taekwondo practitioners to WTF black belt.

After all his activities he traveled to most of the provinces of Afghanistan to promote and affiliate the regional clubs of the country to the federation by holding regional and national championships.

In 1994 Master Dildar was very active, at the beginning of the year he visited the UK and whilst there he took a team to the 1st BTCB International Championships in Edmonton, London. After returning to Afghanistan, he received an invitation for the Asian Games in Japan, this was the first Afghan Taekwondo team to participate in such an event. He then took a team to Singapore and then Thailand. Once again he returned to Afghanistan only to find an invite to Korea to participate in a three months training course at Kwanghae University, which he successfully passed.

By 1995 he had at least thirty branches established all over Pakistan, he then started to become more involved with Taekwondo Academies in the UK, Holland and Iran. As the situation in the Afghanistan is getting worse day by day, he traveled to join his brother and students in the UK and continue his Taekwondo activities.

Master Usman Dildar

Master Usman Dildar

Master Yousuf Dildar