Dojang X Martial Arts Academy

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)! 🥋🎉

Big thanks to Barry Snell SBN and Stuart from Surrey Soo Bahk Do for delivering a fantastic sparring workshop today! 😁🥋

Our students worked hard and it was great to see them all level up their skills 💯

Also, congratulations to Aneliz, who was awarded the trophy for best demonstration of Moo Do sparring 🏆

White belts are taught this wrist grab drill to learn how to break out and counter being grabbed. The more we practice, the more this becomes muscle memory 😁🥋

Breaking demonstration at the 80th Anniversary in Korea 🥋

Chong Sile Sa Bom Nim, Senior Sa Bom en Corée, casse avec le coude, 20 plaques de marbre #MDKKorea80

Since Dojang X started, every year we invest in our training, review our policies and apply for the Sport England's Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts mark ✅️

Did you know that not every martial arts club around does this? 🤔

You can easily tell if they have this award on their website, leaflets etc 👍

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By achieving the Safeguarding Code every year, it demonstrates our commitment to upholding our duty of care to our members and community at a very high standard. So, you can feel confident when you choose us as the professional martial arts club to join 💯

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Last month, we were chosen at random as part of a sample for a more thorough review. We collaborated with Active Oxfordshire for this process.

And we're pleased to hear today that we've passed! 🥋🎉

Proof that it's never too late to start a martial art! Have fun, learn something new, and enjoy the process 😊🥋

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqpeeynejo

Karate black belts awarded to two 79-year-old athletes Beryl Bellamy and Susie McPherson both took up the sport in 2020 at the age of 74.