Dojang X Martial Arts Academy

Mr Hugh was very touched to receive this thoughtful card from Lara, one of our Little Ninjas 🥹🥋

It's moments like these that remind us what our club is all about – confidence, kindness, and the amazing young people we get to teach.

This is our final week of classes before the summer break 🌞. We hope all our members and families have a fantastic holiday!

We're also excited that in September, our Head Instructor, Sabrina, will be returning from maternity leave. She's looking forward to seeing how you've all progressed in your training over the past few months 😊.

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📩 We have limited spaces for new beginners to start with us in September - so drop is a DM to book a free trial!

We had an action-packed week with gradings for our Little Ninjas Club and also the Main Pathway!

Great to see everyone's hard work and focus 🎯

We've got to give a special shout out to Fred and Elliot 😁

They've been training at our Little Ninjas Club since we launched the programme a few years ago.

This week, the boys successfully demonstrated their syllabus and were awarded their Little Ninjas Black Belt - making them the very first in our Club! 🥷

Please join us in congratulating them and all our members who've put in the work over the past few months since our main instructor, Sabrina, has been off on maternity leave.

Also, a special shout out to Hugh for volunteering his time to cover classes so that the Dojang stayed open for training! 🙏

Our first black belt (Dan) candidates preparing for their big day in 2026 🥋

It's a proud moment for us : three of our original students have trained consistently week after week since our Club's founding days 💪

They lead by example, take their training seriously, and support other members in their growth and development.

Motivation is what gets many started.

Discipline and consistency is what gets you to your goal 💯

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It's our last week of training for the half term!

Unless, of course, you're joining us for the holiday session next week 😁🥋

Whether you're spending time away from Oxfordshire or staying local, we'd love to see your Soo Bahk Do pics! 📸

So, send them through and we may feature them! 👍

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(Photo of Sabrina, DX instructor, accompanied by duck.)

✨ Happy New Year to all our members, families and supporters! ✨

A brand new year means fresh goals, new challenges and plenty of progress 🥋

What will you achieve in 2026?

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Classes resume w/c 5th January – who’s ready? 👊

Let’s make this our best year yet 🔥

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤! ⛄️

Our successful grading candidates were awarded their rank promotions and we had fun with board breaking! 🔥

Also congratulations to the following students who were given our 2025 awards:

🏆 Student of the Year: Chansroop

Who has shown amazing dedication to our Club and martial art over the years. It's really hard to communicate the level of impact and respect this young man has in a short text like this. As one of the first DX students ever, he's assisted gradings from a very early stage and young age, and is always happy to help others at class. He also demonstrates strong work ethic, focus, and kindness.

🥋 Most Improved Student: Aadam

This young man has been on a great transformative journey this year. He stepped up to become one of DX's Youth Leaders, showing great courage and increasing confidence to lead others in warm ups. He puts his focus into training and has turned up to train at our other locations and participate in seminars.

🎖 Leadership Award: Simon

Another one of our Youth Leaders, Simon has incredible attention to detail in everything he does. In particular, he's been consistently attending Little Ninjas to offer his support and demonstrate role model behaviour, in addition to attending his own classes. It's clear that the younger kids respect him a lot!

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As Instructor, I'm very grateful for the wonderful community that we have at Dojang X. I'd like to thank all our students for their good training ethic this year - and to the DX parents and family members for supporting our students and Club.

Wishing you all a lovely Christmas and winter break!

Sabrina
(Instructor, Dojang X)

Here's some photos of our action-packed Winter Grading on Sunday 14th December 2025!

Congratulations to all our members this morning who demonstrated their skills at the Oxfordshire Winter Grading (Shim Sa)! 🥋🎉