Awesome job by Riley earning our club's first student of the week award for 2026.

Very well deserved.

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Riley earned this award for excellent all round progress.

Now this is someone's progress and journey I have been keeping a close eye on for a while because this young man has lots and lots of potential. I can really see it all starting to come together for him and I love seeing his weekly improvements. He is certainly a very hard worker, chipping away and putting in the hard work, week in week out.

Riley graded at a very good standard just before Christmas earning his Green belt, no mistakes. This made him eligible to join our senior class. I have no doubt that Riley will have an even bigger increase in his learning once he starts attending this class. (Watch this space). 2026 is going to be his year.

Over the past few months Riley has really progressed well in all areas. All the little things make up the big things so hand movement, use of the hip and control of power have all been worked on along with many more areas.

This young man's kicks have now got good power and a nice snap on the end, we have been working on kicking techniques and im really pleased with how well Riley is doing.

Riley always gives 100% effort. Concentration has improved massively too. 

I couldn't be happier or ask for anymore. Im so pleased he is getting rewarded for all his hard work.

Watch this space because Riley really is one to watch. He will 100% be a star at my club.

Keep up the great work Riley 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 had 2 very important visitors tonight. (SBN) Master Gillian Dean and Mr David Neale both fantastic instructors and practitioners from up north. They made the long journey down to train with us and I truly feel hounoured for this visit. It's fantastic to be training with some of the best Soo Bahk Do practitioners and instructors in the UK. All our students loved it and learnt so much. Thank you both so much for coming down, you are both welcome anytime Ma’am and Sir. 

In our family class we had a very good stretch and warm up, we then moved into lots of basics and movement headed by Master Dean.

Following on with some intense sparring. 

Our class theme tonight was:- Maturity

We discussed our class theme and why maturity is so important in our training and every day lives. Eg:- Do not train if you are injured use your common sense. Make sure you are stretching and practicing enough. Respond to lifes situations with age appropriate behaviour. Use self control and accountability, learning from mistakes. Understanding oneself and acting in alignment with values.

 

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

Our senior class was great, working hard on Hyung (forms).

 

Keep up the great work everyone. 

 

Soo Bahk !!!

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