Awesome job by Dexter our student of the month for the month of December 2025. 

Very well deserved.

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Dexter earned the last monthly award of the year and fully engraved trophy for excellent all round progress. 

I am very pleased that Dexter is training at my club, he has made many new friends and is really enjoying the black belt journey.

This young man is a excellent student and has been quietly going about his business, chipping away and the results are starting to shine through.

Dexter has only been with us around 5 months and graded for the first time a few weeks back and did a fantastic job earning his 9th geup, yellow belt.

Iv'e seen some great progress so far in his hand and eye co-ordination also his balance and kicking techniques. Week by week the confidence is starting to show and excellent progress is being made. Dexter is a very hard working student and always gives 100% effort. I can see lots of potential.

I am so pleased he is getting the rewards for all his hard work. 

I am really looking forward to teaching and seeing Dexter progress in 2026 and on the rest of his black belt journey.

This young man really is one to watch and is 100% destined for great things at our club.

Well done Dexter keep it up. I am very proud of you young man.👊

This post is also available on our club website:-

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

Tonight was our last class of the year. We are now closed for 2 weeks and back on 7th January 2026.

There is another post with 3 awards that were presented tonight:- Most improved student, Best Soo Bahk Do Spirit and the big one, Student of the year.

In our family class we started with a good stretch and warm up followed by some sparring and then moved into knife defence.

Our class theme tonight was:- Potential

Having qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.

We discussed our class theme and why Potential is so important in our training and also our every day lives. 

We then moved into some kicking techniques on the shields and movement.

Closing off strongly with a group effort of lots of sit ups, we had a great class.

Our senior class was great, working hard on Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) and Hyung (Forms) and IL Soo Sik Dae Ryun (One Step Sparring).

Keep up the great work everyone. Have a great xmas and new year and I will see you all back on the 7th January 2026 ready to burn off the turkey.

Soo Bahk !!!

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