Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

8.12.2001 / III. Christmas championship youth Naeryo chagi school

Great fights at the end of year 2001 in České Budějovice

About 214 competitors from 22 taekwon-do schools from Czech republic, Slovenia and Croatia have come to České Budějovice to took part in III. Christmas championship youth Naeryo chagi school. Sonkal, at last taekwon-do competiton in this year, was represented by 16 competitors, all of them in kids cathegory. Starting in this competiton was pretty new for lot of them, because of getting higher grades after grade test on Thursday. But we could rely on our Official Czech national cha

2.12.2001 / The best schools cup

243 competitors at Frýdek-Místek

More than 240 competitors from 16 taekwon-do schools (12 czech, 2 polish and 2 slovakian) took part in international competition named „Best school’s cup“. Competition on this sport event was great, for example male kids 8.-7.kup had 41 competitors. Sonkal sent to Frýdek-Místek town 17 competitors. As always, we were very succesful in paterns cathegory …..we got double (both first and second place) in these cathegories: Patterns male kids 6.-5. kup Patte

19.11.2001 / CYT whole republic meeting

Young talentes met in Třeboň

Second national meeting of the youth talented oraganization took place in Třebon last week-end. All of 6 regional youth talented organizations participated in this competition. As a part of this was comparing skills of both regional organizations and individuals. Team from Petrohrad taekwon-do school (Russia) competed here as guests and they were very skilled and strong opponents in sparring. This meeting convinced us that lot of talented and skillfull competitors practice in Czech republic and that junior national team is going to have opportunity to take new promising adepts.

5.11.2001 / Czech republic championship juniors and seniors

Competition year 2001 is over now.

Top sport event of a season is always „The Czech national championship“. More than 260 competitors (both juniors and seniors) from 20 czech taekwon-do schools participated in 4 disciplines (patterns, sparring, special techniques and power breaking). Sonkal was represented only by 4 competitors (Tomáš Bobek, Hoang Yuang Huy, Tran Vu Huy and Nguyen Hai Ha). The most succesful Sonkal

28.10.2001 / Czech republic kid's championship

Kids Czech Republic champions 2001 are from Sonkal

Nice sport season ending of Czech Taekwon-do Federation in kids cathegory was Czech national championship for kids. More than 160 competitors from 15 schools participated here. Our competitors started here and as you may read below, they were pretty succesful. We were most succesful, as always, in patterns (tul), where gold medals were taken by Pavel Zavadil, Linda Deutchová, Filip Konár (he defeated his brother Honza in fratricide final match) and Dominika Bardonová. Silver medals were

14.10.2001 / II. Regional competition

Regional competition again on Černý Most

On October, 13 this year, does our club again have the honour to organize Regional Competitions for all clubs in Prague. The rules on paper had been already sent to heads of clubs´ addresses. We request the pleasure to make available the rules to all Taekwon-dists also on our Web site: Rules + Application Form (ZIP) Rules (Word File) Application Form (Excel File)

6.10.2001 / Republic competition juniors and seniors, group B

First Autumn republic competition in Třeboň

Over 80 competitors from 10 clubs met in Třeboň to first autumn competition. This time the hall pertained to juniors and seniors group B (up to 3. kup). As is usual they competed in all of four Taekwon-Do ITF disciplines. Complete results are here. Pictures are available traditionally in whole article.

30.9.2001 / I. Regional competition

Great feat of Sonkal´s kids !

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24.7.2001 / XII. World senior's championship

The best World championship"s actions

With short delay we bring for all our visitors some movies with the most exciting fights from World championship. All movies are in MPEG4 (DivX) format. You can download these movies:

8.7.2001 / XII. World senior's championship

4. place for Czech Republic

The Czech National Team carried off at XIIthe Senior World Championships in Rimini, Italy one gold, four silver and one bronze medals. Thanks to these result was our team placed 4th in the total standings among those 63 participating countries from 5 continents. Predictably, our camera was in and outcoming are following 358 pictures. Available to download are following video records: Traditional Sparring - England Traditional Sparring - Argentina

21.5.2001 / Bohemia championship kids & juniors group A+B

28 medails from Bohemia championship

As the top of the Taekwon-Do season in the Spring part were undoubtly the Czech and the Moravian kids and juniors championships that took place on Sunday, May 20, in the sports hall in Třeboň. 213 competitors from 17 clubs throughout the Bohemia and Moravia participated in all, and 138 competitors from Bohemia. After very good results in previous events (Kerberos Cup or CYT competition), our contestants acquited themselves excellent even this time. Already traditionally were our competitors d

6.5.2001 / Juniors & seniors European championship

Movies from European championship

Now we bring you on our site movies from European Championship in Spain. As we promise short time ago we made 2 movies with new Taekwon-do ITF event Traditional sparring. In first one there are competitors from Greece during their match against Poland. Second one is with Czech fighters Miroslav Sýkora & Kamil Vyvial. In last movie is match between Rostislav Kanka and Greece competitor in IV. degree patterns. All vids are in MPEG4 format (Divx).

6.5.2001 / I. Republic competition CYT

2nd place as year before

It became already a tradition, that one of the competitions organized in May by the Czech Taekwon-Do Federation is devoted to our young talents - to representatives of the regional CYT(Centers Youth Talentes) struggling. Although competitors of the national team do not participate in this kind of competitions, there came much more competitors to Třeboň as in last years. But quantity is not important and as we could see more than 130 from kid and junior categories competitors were perfoming exce

2.5.2001 / Juniors & seniors European championship

Spain is very good place for Czech national team

On Tuesday, May 1st, the Czech Republic national Team returned from the Spanish Villayojosa, close to Benidorm, where VIIth Junior and XVIth Senior European Championship took place. The Spanish spring Weather was very agreeable and as you can see from the pictures taken by us it was pretty nice in Spain (especially the sea). The whole championship set into a new modern arena was planned out to three competition days. Although no one of the representation team succeeded in defendin

14.4.2001 / Czech Republic versus Slovenia

World champions in sparring in Třeboň

Saturday, April, 14, a joust between the Czech National Team and the Slovenian one took place in Třeboň. The Junior and Senior competitors did more than 40 matches, that have been for both of the teams build-up to the forthcomming European Championship. The most prestigious matches were those with Tomáš Barada and Binco Tapilatu - they both showed up belonging justly to the top throughout the world.

5.3.2001 / Germany Open

Gold & bronze medal from Germany

In the days March 3rd and 4th, the Czech national team took part in the, now already traditional, Germany Open (unfortunately one week before the prestigeous Slovenia Open was dropped because of a snow calamity). The competition was designated for junior and senior competitors, who encountered in separated categories of coloured and black belts in patterns and sparring events. Participation from abroad was really remarkable - teams from Netherlands, Latvia, Moldova and first of all from Argentina

25.2.2001 / Kerberos Cup

After few years renewed Kerberos Cup

On Saturdy, March 24th Taekwon-do ITF Kerberos set up a "Cup", renewed after a few years. In contrast to previous yearts, this year for the first time could contend all the age categories (kids, juniors & seniors). It was competed in patterns and sparring. In teh competition took part competitors from 7 clubs comming from all the Czech republic (Kerberos, Toi-Gae, Sam-Il, Frýdek-Místek, Znojmo, Plzeň and our club). From Sonkal started together 22 competitors and in spite of some of them were c

22.1.2001 / Republic competition juniors & seniors group A

First movie from Taekwon-do competition in Czech republic

This is our first movie for internet. In movie is Huy"s final match with Dušan Cába (Naeryo chagi school) in sparring up to 52kg. Lenght is 5 minuts a 30 seconds (including subtitles and a few special effects). We recommend download movie to harddisk and than run in Media Player manually. If you don"t have installed drivers for Divx (MPG4) format download here There are two versions:

21.1.2001 / Republic competition juniors & seniors group A

7 medals with only 3 competitors

First of competitions arranged this year by the Czech Taekwon-do Federation was devoted for junior & senior age cathegory of group A, which means 2nd kups and higher (red and black belts). It was competed so as usually in all the four disciplines (patterns, sparring, special techniques and power breaking). In Třeboň, an excellent concurrence met repeatedly and many top fights were to see. The competition in January is always combined with selecting candidates for the Czech national team, which