05/09/2026
Tomorrow is P.U.M.A. Day, so I wanted to take a moment to say........
🎂❤️ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISS COLEMAN! ❤️🎂
Tomorrow, we celebrate someone who is quite simply 1 in a million.
Miss Coleman is everyone's biggest cheerleader. She's the person celebrating everyone else's successes, encouraging those who need it and making sure nobody feels like they're facing things alone.
But what makes her truly special is that even on her darkest days, she still shows up.
She volunteers her time, gives up her days, sets up, takes down, leads demos, supports away days and competitions, and somehow always finds another way to help.
She even volunteers to work with our Little P.U.M.A.s at competitions — something even Black Belts and Instructors mysteriously seem to avoid! (and She isn't even technically an official yet)😂🥋
And then there's the time she walked across the Severn Bridge to raise money for a defibrillator, simply so I wouldn't have to walk it alone. ❤️
That's the sort of person she is.
And, of course, she has the loudest kihap in the dojang! 😂🥋
I've been doing Taekwon-do for 28 years, and I've never met anyone who embodies indomitable spirit and the will to persevere quite like Miss Coleman.
She doesn't just talk about those qualities — she lives them.
And perhaps what makes this even more special for me is mine and Miss Coleman's own journey!
From childhood training partners in the same class, to me now having the privilege of being her Instructor, I absolutely love that our lives have remained intertwined through Taekwon-do — and that she eventually found her way back to us.
Chepstow Taekwon-do is a better place because you're part of it.
Thank you for everything you do, everything you give, and most importantly, for simply being you.
❤️🥋 Happy Birthday, Miss Coleman!
You really are 1 in a Million. ❤️
