After a year, we met again at Černý Most, this time in the big gym of Vybíralova Primary School, to recapitulate the year 2023. The pre-Christmas period is hectic, but still everything went well and the performers did not fit side by side for the whole length of the gym, there were so many of them. This year we were able to fulfill a wish from last year's showcase - to have all 7 of our gyms perform. Girls and boys from Černý Most, Petřiny, Horní Počernice, Hloubětín, Velké Přílepy, Břevnov and Velká Dobrá presented their demonstrations. Each demonstration was different, int

On Thursday afternoon, the world turned upside down in the Czech Republic. Many people were a direct part of it, for many it was a reality only a few tens or hundreds of metres away. Either way, the horrific act affected virtually everyone in our country. The images we have seen so far, mainly from the USA, have hit us directly. Although almost three full days have passed, it is still so close, so vivid and still so surreal. Sonkal has joined the national mourning by not posting anything on its website and social media. It's a symbolic gesture, but I consider it important. In our global wor

Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th November belonged to the technical seminar with Master Jerzy Jedut, which is organized annually by the Czech National Taekwon-Do ITF Union. The venue is traditionally the gym of the Elementary School in Stránčice. This year's seminar was marked by training of technique into patterns, patterns themselves, combination of kicks and also movement into sparring. Master Jedut added interesting variants of self-defence within the individual elements. I am very happy to mention the presence of Master Vladimir Machota, one of the pioneers of Czech taekwondo, who w

On November 9, all taekwondo men and women commemorate the 105th anniversary of the birth of Korean General Choi Hong-hi. Although more than two decades have passed since his death, his life's work remains here for generations to come. That work is nothing less than the martial art of Taekwon-Do. Sonkal symbolically completed today the publication of videos of patterns that were missing from his instructional section. From Yon-Gae to Tong-Il. Today's premiere is the 24th Taekwon-do pattern, Tong-Il. Let's wish that the idea of unifying the divided Korea will be realized in the future and, i

On Wednesday 20th September we had a great opportunity to show the first grade schoolchildren of Vybíralova Primary School in Černý Most in three demonstrations how Taekwon-Do looks like. Because Vybíralova is a big school, we divided the classes into three separate demonstrations. Nevertheless, the audience was always large and appreciated each part of the demonstration. This time the yellow, green and blue belts got the biggest space from our ranks, commanded by experienced I. dan (black belt) holders Jiri Faltin and Hubert Sk�

On Sunday, August 6, the Czech Taekwon-Do ITF held the traditional summer examinations for the technical dan level. We were there with our cameras and we have 338 photos for you.

On Sunday 28th May the second DAN technical grade examinations were held. The exams were organized by the Czech Taekwon-Do ITF Association after the international technical seminar in the Prague Step Hotel. Rumen Matanov took his first black belt exam and for the fourth time Pavel Šnábl, who runs our gym in BPA Hloubětín, stood in front of the Federation's exam committee. Both of them showed very good performances and during the summer they will receive certificates - Rumen for I. dan and Pavel for IV. dan. Congratulations!

The Czech Taekwon-Do ITF Association, at the request of Grandmaster Hwang Ho-yong, organized another online training course, this time focused on the education of referees and coaches in Taekwon-do. The event was free of charge for all participants and aimed to unify the view on the correctness of techniques in routines during international competitions. The above parameters attracted a large number of participants and the final number stopped at 374 registrants. However, the number of connected was around the figure of 220, but it is true that we recorded 2-5 attendees for a considerable numb

On Sunday, March 12, we accepted the invitation of the Czech National Taekwon-do Union and Master Oleg Petrovskyi to participate in a seminar with the icon of Ukrainian and world taekwondo Master Oleg Solovey, who was accompanied by his son Vitaly Solovey. Vitalyi, despite his very young age, is already a three-time World Champion and multiple European Champion. The seminar itself was divided into three training blocks and all were very dynamic and movement intensive. However, the following ideas for the sport of combat can be taken away from the whole very interesting training day: - con

The Czech Taekwon-Do ITF Association in cooperation with Grandmaster Hwang Ho-yong organized another online instructor course for interested people from all over the world. The course was held in the traditional format - two three-hour sections filled with the theory of our martial art and one block focused on practice. As usual, the assistants and translators were masters Martin Zámečník and Ondřej Vrábel. Alex Mach provided the entire online broadcast, and in the Sunday practical block, Lea and Tea Rathouské from Sonkal, and Zdeněk Pavelka and Jana Odstrčilová from GBHS helped ou

On Thursday, February 2, our caravan went to the first camp of the year and our destination was Zákupy where we have been going for many years. After a few health corrections, 50 participants attended the camp. The lower belts were attended by two coaches - Jiří Huml and Tereza Štekerová. The higher belts were led by the traditional trio of master Ondřej Vrábel, Martin Svitek and Vladimír Švanda. Each technical level got a good portion of their exercises and those who were not enough, added an evening of free training according to their taste. And why does the title talk about n

On the second weekend of January we visited the Sports Centre Repy again, this time for an online international technical seminar with Grand Master Hwang Ho-yong. Although Covid 19 doesn't prevent us from travelling that much, it's not quite that easy and moreover the format of the online technical and instructor seminars has proven to be a great success. Above all, it saves everyone a lot of money and also time! But let's go in order - everything was preceded by two hours of preparation of the broadcast hall on Friday - tatami, rollups, two big TVs, cameras, laptops, editing box and above