AAU Taekwondo Coaches Certification
2024 AAU Certified Coaches - As of 7.11.24

1. Coaches must first obtain a 2024 AAU Non-Athlete Membership if over age 18 years of age.  This is not immediate and should be done well in advance of completing the On-line Course.  You may obtain membership at this link:  AAU Membership  If you are under 18 years of age, you will require an Athlete Membership.
   
   
2. If you are going to be both a Coach and an Official, you may complete the COACH AND OFFICIAL ON-LINE COURSE and upon completion of the modules for Traditional Forms, Point Sparring and Olympic Sparring, you will be certified as a coach for each of those events.  To complete the Officials Certification, you will need to attend an Officials Clinic conducted by a Clinic Administrator.  See the OFFICIATING tab for additional information.
   
   
3. Once you sign into the On-line Course, you will need to provide profile information.  The email will be your user name going forward.  In the profile it requests the email you want to use for communications.  It if very important that you provide an email that you monitor.  This will be the email we use if we need to correspond with you.  
   

   
   Please note that completing this on a phone is difficult and at the end of a course module, you must submit the questions that you answered during the course.  If using any electronic device and those questions do not pop up to be submitted, look to the bottom of the video and you will see a star.  Click on the star and the questions will come up to be submitted.
   
   Before going to the course, review the below steps.  They are critical in order to ensure you are ready to be fully certified.
   
   

4. The Coaches On-line Course allows you to select which courses you wish to be certified in for 2024.  There are four course modules:
   1. Traditional Forms
   2. Point Sparring
   3. Olympic Sparring
   4. Sport Poomsae
      
      
5. You may complete one or all courses.  However, at AAU National Events you will not be allowed to coach athletes for events if you have not been certified in those events.  For example:  If you only complete the course for Olympic Sparring and you have athletes that are competing in Traditional Forms, you will not be allowed in the ring as a coach and you will be unable to file a protest in that event.  You will always be able to go back and complete additional modules at no additional cost.