(HBO) - Nguyen Cong Minh, living Huu Nghi Ward (Hoa Binh City) is currently a coach of three-level karate as well as the founder of Cong Minh martial art club. Born in 1995, he is now only 24 years old and he has been passionate about karate since he was a small child. So far, Minh has had a lot of experience in training as well as playing this sport.

Nguyen Cong Minh (on the left) is taking the second national promotion karate exam in 2019.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, the members of Cong Minh martial art club in the typical white costumes of karate are passionately practicing the martial arts at the yard of the Provincial Center for the Youth Activity (Thinh Lang Ward - Hoa Binh City). Currently, Cong Minh martial art club has 4 training facilities, which are at the Provincial Center for the Youth Activity, Mong Hoa, high and junior high schools with 300 learners in Hop Thanh, Hop Thinh (Ky Son). The learners of all the club’s classes are mostly teenagers, pupils and students as karate is a sport regardless of the gender and the age. The number of learners attending classes has been increasing each summer.

Nguyen Cong Minh has fallen in love with karate since he was 12 years old. Gradually Minh has been passionate about karate. He has studied many martial arts such as taekwondo, boxing ... but at the end, Minh has chosen karate. In 2017, Minh opened the classes for training martial arts and established Cong Minh martial art club with 150 learners initially. The trainer is strict and the learners always seriously practice in the Karate tournaments, therefore Minh's learners have achieved a lot of outstanding achievements. Cong Minh martial art club has successfully won the second team prize with 8 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 25 bronze ones At the Second Karate Open Club Cup of Hoa Binh province in 2019.

Coming to karate with the passion and enthusiasm of the youth, Nguyen Cong Minh says that fun, health and usefulness is the top priority goal of the club.


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