Awesome job by Oliver our student of the month for April 2025. 

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Very well deserved.

What a great few months it has been for this young man.

Oliver earned this award for excellent progress in Hyung (Forms).

I am very pleased that Oliver is training at my club with his younger brother, they have both made many new friends and both are really enjoying the black belt journey together. 

Oliver has been quietly going about his business and putting in so much hard work week in week out.

At his last grading before Christmas he graded at a very good level earning the tag on his orange belt. Oliver is currently preparing for his summer grading which will be in June and is well on course for it. It is a huge grading for him as he will be grading for his Green belt.

Oliver gives 100% effort and concentration in class and he is on a great path.

These past few months I have seen a big learning curve in Oliver's progress and seeing great results in sparring too. He is starting to move like a good Soo Bahk Do practitioner.

Oliver is really beginning to understand the movements and using his concentration to great effect. Balance and hand and eye co-ordination has hugely improved also. 

Sometimes students don't realise how far they have come on their journey and cannot see for themselves the progress they are making and it's nice to show them and let them know all their effort and progress is not going unnoticed.

Although its still quite early days, this young man is definitely on the right path and is one to watch and destined for great things at our club.

I am very much looking forward to seeing how Oliver progresses over the coming months and teaching him on his black belt journey. 

Keep up the great work Oliver I am very very proud of you young man. 

This post is also available on our club website:-

https://www.essexsbd.com/student-of-the-week

On our family class we started our warm up on the work stations.

Our class theme tonight was :- Confidence

The feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something.

We discussed our class theme and why confidence is so importatnt in our training and every day life. We like confidence but not cockiness.

After our class theme discussion we moved into Hyung (Forms) and Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) an IL Soo Sik Dae Ryun (One Step Sparring).

I then went round to every belt group and worked with each individual group on their syllabus material. 

Closing off strongly with a group effort of lots of sit up's we had an excellent class. 

We then moved into our senior class which was great, working hard on technique, Hyung (Forms) and Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) and also iL Soo Sik Dae Ryun (One Step Sparring).

Someone will receive a student of the week award next class.

Keep up the great work everyone. 

 

Soo Bahk !!!

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