31.12.2012 / 3rd Christmas camp for red & black belts9 coments

Christmas Event 2012 by Tereza

Hello Sonkal members and you other people visiting our webpage. You could have noticed that from 27th to 29th of December our red and black belts attended the Christmas training camp. It took place in Malé Svatoňovice where our summer training camps are. And if you haven´t noticed or you just couldn´t go with us, I will describe to you how such event looks like.
We met on Thursday 27th of December at 9 a.m. in front of Česká Spořitelna bank at Černý Most. When all of us arrived, we got into the cars and started our journey. Together we were 13 equals 15 people (because I count also Svíťa´s wife and their little son Matýsek – Obiwan :-) ). Attending people were: Ondřej Vrábel and Martin Svitek (instructors), Jana Kovářová, Tomáš Vodička, Pavel Šnábl, Michal Zacharuk, Jirka Huml, Veronika Holečková, Honza Dvořáček, René Čapek, Jirka novák ´99, Pavel Zacharuk and me – Tereza Žilinská. When we arrived, we divided into the rooms and helped Ondra with some stuff. Lunch followed and a while of rest as well. After that we headed for our first trip to lookout tower. Only Ondra didn´t came because he was recovering after knee surgery. The way to the top was quite ok but it was much worse back. There was a lot of slippery ice on the path and we had to walk really carefully and yet few people slipped and fell down (me for example :-) ). This year there was no snow except for the hill near the tower. In the evening we had training focused on self-defence. Part of the training was exercise that one of us stood in the middle of a circle and the other attacked him one by one. After the dinner we had a seminar which followed on the training. After chatting we watched a film called Samotáři.

Second day (28th of December) we had training a while after breakfast. We did few patterns and every time we finished a pattern we made pairs and practised applications of techniques. Our plan for the afternoon was to visit Broumov rocks and after that we went to cafeteria in Trutnov where we could buy a hot chocolate or a piece of cake. It was very tasty. Michal Zacharuk and some other people wanted to go for a kebab except for Ondra, Svíťa and his family. We waited long time for the kebab, because there was just one guy preparing it. We had to dope out who will go with Ondra (Svíťa already left and took Verča and Jana who was leaving for the mountains that evening) and others went back with Michal. We had some sandwiches, vegetables and fruit for the dinner and after meal we watched funny TKD photos and videos and also “Sonkal 2012” video which you can see on our webpage. Odnra and Svíťa told us that trip for the last day is ZOO! We watched film Ninja which was really good :-). After the film Honza brought a guitar and started to play and sing. I went to the shower but then Jirka came later and told me to join the singing. So I went there in my pyjamas with hoodie over it and with wet hair tied into the bun :-). We sang songs such as Tři čuníci (three pigs), Holubí dům (pigeon house) etc. It was fun.

On the last day (29th of December) there was training also in the morning. We played a game for warm-up and practised punches in pairs. Then one from the pair made up some combination and the other had to do it. At the end we had compensation exercises with Svíťa. We ate leftovers for lunch, packed-up, sat in the cars and went to Dvůr Králové where the ZOO is. But before going to ZOO we went to restaurant and had second lunch. When we got into the ZOO, it was almost dark so we visited the pavilions. We saw snakes, elephants, a crocodile, baby tigers, cheetahs, hyenas, small poor monkey who was pulled by other monkeys who fought for her. Then there was another small monkey but bigger than the other one. We saw big fishes; one of them was really ugly because she had big white eyes and looked like blind!!! :-). When we left the ZOO, we gathered in front of the cars and wish a happy new year to everyone. After a short (note of the translator: it was not short for me, I was desperately trying not to sleep, because Michal the driver looked tired as well and I wanted to watch over him :-D) way home our Christmas event 2012 ended :-).