Vovinam practitioner performing a flying scissor kick above Garachico at sunset
Gallery

The club, in pictures

The salute, the flight, the classes and the town. Six images that explain what we do and where we do it.

01 — Gallery

Illustration, not photography.

The images on this site are illustrations created with artificial intelligence, checked so that the uniform and the techniques stay faithful to Vovinam. They are used instead of photographs of our students in order to protect the privacy of the children in the club.

Vovinam student in the sky-blue uniform performing the salute facing the sea at dawn, on the lava coastline of Garachico with Mount Teide behind
Vovinam

Nghiêm Lễ, the salute

An open hand over the heart: a steel hand over a benevolent heart. Every class begins and ends the same way, facing forward.

Vovinam practitioner performing a flying scissor kick in mid-air above the rooftops of Garachico at sunset
Vovinam

Đòn chân, the flying scissor kick

The technique Vovinam is known for worldwide. It is learned slowly, on the mat, with a controlled fall.

Group of children in blue Vovinam uniforms lined up and saluting in the school gymnasium in Garachico
Vovinam

The children's group

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:00 to 17:30, in the gymnasium of CEIP Antonio del Valle Menéndez. Free for pupils of the school.

Adults and older adults stretching in a row during a maintenance gymnastics class in the sports hall
Adult fitness

Maintenance gymnastics

Joint mobility, postural work and gentle conditioning. Everyone works at their own pace, competing with nobody.

Portrait of master Gerardo Ramón Gutiérrez Dorta in the blue Vovinam uniform with the yellow belt and red stripe of 1st Dang
Technical leadership

Gerardo Ramón Gutiérrez Dorta

Founder and technical director of the club, 1st Dang. In Vovinam the yellow belt with a red stripe is the equivalent of the black belt in other martial arts.

View of the town of Garachico with its natural lava rock pools and the offshore rock, on the north coast of Tenerife
Our town

Garachico

The town was buried by the lava flow of 1706 and rebuilt itself stone by stone. It is the same idea we teach on the mat.

02 — Images and minors

Our commitment.

Separate consent
Permission to use images is requested separately from the privacy consent, is never pre-ticked, and can be withdrawn at any time.
No names beside images
We never publish a child's full name next to their photograph.
Removal on request
Any family can ask us to take an image down, and we do so without asking for an explanation.
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