JONESBORO TAEKWONDO DOJANG INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT

August 20, 2025

Head Instructor/Owner Richard Dekok is a 5th degree black belt in Taekwondo under his instructor Master Tim Grant of Greenwood Arkansas. Mr. Dekok began his Taekwondo Training in 1980 in the ATA school at K-Mart Plaza in Fort Smith Arkansas. He soon after began training with Master Jimmy Brown of Fort Bragg Taekwondo (also his Platoon Sergeant). He returned from the army in 1985 and resumed training under Master Grant. Mr. Dekok opened his own school in 1995, training with friends in a small apartment complex gym in Jonesboro, Ar.