How WTA grew through training, competition and performance
WTA’s early seniors trained under Grandmaster Eng-Sin Tan, helped teach and rehearsed demonstrations together. Follow WTA’s history from those years to Malaysian Poomsae teams and Team ARENA productions.
Learning to teach and perform
Jin Kun, Hong Kai, Sara Yap and Kok Jun Ee were part of an early senior group under Master Tan. Alongside working on their own taekwondo, they helped teach and rehearsed demonstrations.
They kept working on their own taekwondo as they helped other students learn and prepared to perform as a group.
From the WTA archive
2007
Team ARENA’s early story
Team ARENA’s public profiles date its demonstration story to 2007. The performance team’s history forms one part of WTA’s wider story.
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2012
WTA seniors representing Malaysia
WTA’s public archive names Jin Kun, Kok Jun Ee, Sara Yap Khim Wen and Choo Hong Kai among Malaysian representatives at the Asian Poomsae Championships.
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2013
Jin Kun on the US Open podium
Jin Kun won men’s senior individual bronze at the US Open in Las Vegas. His international competition record developed alongside the WTA senior group’s teaching and demonstration work.
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2015
TAO: A Journey Through Time
Team ARENA’s trailer introduced TAO — A Journey Through Time, adding a stage-production chapter to its demonstration archive.
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2017
Medals and an opening ceremony
At the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games, Sara won women’s individual gold. Sara and Jin Kun took mixed-pair silver; Jin Kun, Jun Ee and Chew Wei Yan won men’s-team silver for Malaysia.
Team ARENA also performed at the opening ceremony, a separate performance chapter alongside the competition results.
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2018
Sara’s Asian Games bronze
Sara won women’s individual bronze at the Jakarta–Palembang Asian Games. With Jin Kun, her pair results that year included US Open gold and Asian Championship silver for Malaysia.
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2022
Competition and performance
Team ARENA published eight member placings from the national championships and continued to document its performance work. The archive brings together the competition entries and event records with their sources.
2026
A younger athlete on the World podium
Chin Ken Haw, Augustine Linggi Randy Owen A. and Yeap Zhi Bin won Male Team Under 30 bronze for Malaysia in Chuncheon. Ken’s WTA connection adds a younger generation to the academy’s sporting story.
Separately, Team ARENA’s public event listing presented TAO GENZ: THE FINALE — Legacy & Transformation at DPAC in August.
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Meet the people in these chapters
Follow the individual stories, from academy practice to competition, work and further sport.
Early training history: Jin Kun Yong’s October 2026 account. Dated milestones draw on the linked WTA and Team ARENA archive, event results and contemporary reports.