Our Instructors & Staff Members

Our Instructors have spent many years devoted to martial arts and have attained a certain level of expertise to qualify them as teachers and also mentors.

Through extensive testing and certification, our staff have attained a mastery of the martial arts and now enjoy sharing their skill and passing it on to their students.

Todd Huddleston  Send E-mail to Todd Huddleston
Master Huddleston has been training in the martial arts for over 31 years and has been teaching the martial arts for the past 28 years. He has taught hundreds of students starting from the age of 4 to the age of 65.

Using the systematic, fun, challenging curriculum he teaches, he has helped students with behavioral disorders such as ADHD to have better focus at home and at school. He has helped children learn how to be more respectful to their parents, to classmates, and to the people they meet. He has taught youth and adult students to have better self-discipline and confidence to set goals and achieve them with excellence.
With his desire to help his students reach their physical fitness potential, he has helped motivate overweight and out of shape youth and adults to lose as much as 60 pounds, improve their cardiovascular fitness, and increase their energy levels.

Through his example of disciplined, focused, no-nonsense attitude, through his example of his own continued training in the art, and with his ability to encourage and push his staff and students to do more than they think they can, he has established a professional school of high quality martial arts and in doing so has given his staff and students the mental and physical tools to improve themselves in mind, body and spirit to accomplish with excellence anything at home, work, or play.

Among his many accomplishments


  • Certified Master of Tang Soo Do, World Tang Soo Do Union, Song Tang City, Korea.
  • Instructor's License, World Tang Soo Do Union, Song Tang City, Korea.
  • Certified Master of Tae Kwon Do, Kuk Ki Won, Seoul, Korea
    World Tae Kwon Do Federation headquarters
  • 1992-1999 Tae Kwon Do Master Instructor at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Ambassador's Cup Tae Kwon Do Gold Medallist,
  • 1995 MVP, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2000 Educational Funding Compnay "X Factor Improvement" award winner.
  • 2006 "Martial Arts Spirit Award for Perseverance" Educational Funding Company International Convention
  • Tang Soo Do Achievement Award, November 28, 2008, Bintulu, Malysia
  • Graduate with distinction Louisiana Scholar's College, Mathematics,Northwestern State University.
  • Graduate level study in Mathematics, North Texas State University.
  • Graduate Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
Go beyond what you think you can do
Kim Song Suk  Send E-mail to Kim Song Suk
Master Kim became a well known Tae Kwon Do fighter in high school and college and even went on to become the Korean 1992 Korean National Champion. She has traveled the world, demonstrating the excellence of martial arts. She was one of a few of the many Korean champions awarded a medal of honor by the President of South Korea, Kim Young Sam, for her efforts in the development of Tae Kwon Do nationally and worldwide. She worked with young children teaching them Tae Kwon Do before moving to the United States.

Her attention to making sure the techniques are done correctly and safely give the students the confidence to learn new things. Her firm, gentle, patient, disciplined attitude gives the students the courage to excel, and motivates them to practice until they get it right. Her desire to see her students be the best that they can be sets the example for the students to achieve excellence in their martial arts training.

It is Yonsei's good fortune to have her as a master instructor for its students.

Among her many accomplishments:


  • 1992 Korean National Champion
  • 1991, 1993 Korean National Demonstration Team: The only female on the team.
  • Captain Song Shin Women's University TKD team.
  • Captain, City of Inchon, Korea, Professional TKD team.
  • BS in Physical Education, Song Shin University, Seoul Korea.
  • Instructor's License, WTF Headquarters, Seoul, Korea
  • National Teaching Certificate, Myoung Ji University, Seoul Korea.
  • 2006 Winner "Instructor of the Year" Educational Funding Company International Convention

I love teaching
For more information about the Yonsei Martial Arts Academy staff or training programs, please contact us at 504-465-5353 or by clicking here.