Awesome job by Gustavo our student of the week for 6-5-26.

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Very well deserved.

Gustavo earned this award for excellent progress in hyung (Forms).

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

This young man needs no introduction, he is an unbelievable practitioner and still amazes me and everyone else every single week.

He was awarded student of the year at the end of 2025 and it's easy to see why. He has been with us a good few years now and has still been training as hard as ever every single week. When people talk about the X factor or in this case the Soo Bahk Do factor, Gustavo has just got it. He is it. So so naturally gifted. Never have I seen or met anyone more meant to be doing what he is doing.

Since Gustavo joined us his confidence has massively improved. He has got unlimited amounts of energy and loves sparring. He is a total natural and born to do it. Over these past few months he has been on that same upward learning curve. His desire or want to learn has never ever faded not one single bit and now he is even more than ever in the zone every single class, soaking up what is being taught.

For someone so young to be a perfectionist like he is and the way he remembers everything so well is unbelievable.

His Hyung (Forms) and Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) techniques are really coming on well and it makes me so very proud seeing that he is picking the new syllabus material up so well and really turning into a great practitioner.

Gustavo always gives 100% concentration and effort every single week and I truly believe he has found his passion.

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

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

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

Well done Gustavo 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

We started with a good stretch and warm up followed by some races, while still warming up.

Our class theme tonight was:- Dynamic Sparring

Everyone will sleep well tonight thats for sure.

We practiced lots of sparring techniques with partners. We then moved into syllabus material, Hyung (Forms) Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) and IL Soo Sik Dae Ryun (One Step Sparring).

When then moved to kicking techniques on the shields.

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

After the family class was our senior class where we worked on our Hyung (Forms) and Ho Sin Sool (Self Defence) also one step sparring.

Someone from tonight's class will receive a student of the week award next class.

Keep up the great work everyone.

Soo Bahk !!!

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