Silla’s Instructors
Mr Gwyn Brown 4th Dan
- ITFNZ Instructor- Silla Taekwon-Do, Te Puna
- ITF International Instructor
- Tournament Committee Member
- ITF A Grade Referee and Umpire
- ITFNZ ‘P’ grade Referee and Umpire
Mr Brown has been learning Taekwon-Do for 18 years, and has recently returned from Korea where he was selected by ITFNZ to teach there on an exchange program. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of NZ & current member of the Tournaments Committee, has 4 children, 2 grandsons and also runs his own National Childcare Business – when Taekwon-Do allows.
Mr Shaun Skedgwell 3rd Dan (refereeing)
- ITFNZ Assistant instructor – Silla Taekwon-Do, Te Puna
- TFNZ Standards & Discipline committee member
- ITFNZ ‘A’ Grade Referee & Umpire
Mr Skedgwell is a Police Officer and a member of ITFNZ’s Standards & Discipline Committee – responsible for the ethical conduct of ITFNZ students. He is also a specialist in destruction and self defence, having won gold at ITFNZ’s National Tournament and many other events, and of course practising self defence daily during the course of his work!
Both Instructors specialise in teaching children and have together set up, organised, and run ITFNZ’s National Kids Camp (for 5-14 yr olds) for the past 7 years.

