We chose 270 photos from Czech national Championship in Brno. There are also 10 movies from Brno :) Added two movies of Sonkal's self-defense performance.

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World Championship is behind us but we still need to finish our photos in a few following days. Today you can see pictures of Saturday competition, so do it. Czech colours were successful again and those of Sonkal school were not just visible but even audible thanks to many precious metals. First of all, Jirka Novák shot-out the battle about gold which took place after a lunch and it turned out as gold for Jirka. That meant some compensation for his starts in patterns and sparring contests that were medal less. But contest of special techniques he won the shoot-out and fought out first pla

The competition is passing really fast and the second day was very successful for Czech colours. Junior females launched great performance on the ring number one – Anežka Čurdová gained first place in sparring and Petra Jíchová did the same just a few minutes later on the same ring. In the evening Tereza Štekerová fought out her advancement to the finale and today morning she defeated Korean fighter. After that ring number one belonged to veteran category. Then younger junior female team wanted to begin their fight against the team form Bulgaria. They did not have sufficient number of

New set from afternoon traning of Czech national team and opening ceremongy which been held in the evening. Today we start competiting with tuls.

Brutal getting up early in the morning right before the departure was really, really hard to everyone. But it was compensated by the one and half hour only flight from Prague to Bari. It was followed by a short bus transfer to small town named Corado. There the registration and weighing of competitors took place at a hotel. Our national team was eventually accommodated in this hotel but the referees had to make a long trip to Andria. In the afternoon the national team underwent the adaptation training to gain some energy before the competition beginning on Thursday. Vladimír Švanda monit

We have never tried to attend two competitions during one day. Because youth and junior competitors attended Youth Talents Competition in Nymburk, we decided to send seniors and representants to Benátky for Open Czech Republic Championship organised by Czech National Union of TKD, the other federation od TKD ITF. After morning registration and short opening ceremony the competition started with individual patterns. It came out for us with style start = win. Edita Zelinková, Egor Popov, Pavel Zavadil, Tereza Žilinská and Tereze Štekerová won gold medals. On this championship, also mixe

Another year passed and we had our traditional challenge before us. That means making arrangements for Sonkal Open the competition for pupils, juniors and seniors to take each other on in sparring and patterns contest. This year prepared and innovation in the hall which meant four rings. There were several reasons for this – very numerous amount of referees and large amount of contestants. After early morning registration a few minutes past ten o´clock we could assemble the crowd of 22 schools, one of which was from Slovakia. 195 contestants lined up within rings and after the opening ce

Photos from European Championship in Thessaloniki are complete ;)

On the days 19th and 20th March annual competition Czech open took place. During last year this contest grew up into enormous international event that is attended by a few hundred competitors. This year was not distinguished from the others. The event was honored by the visit of competitors from Slovakia, France, Poland, Greece, even Greenland and a few other countries. At ten o´clock a.m. on Saturday the registration and the weighing of competitors was taking place. The contest started about two o´clock p.m. with traditional line-up of the teams and the introducing of the referees and ex

Whole photo set is available. Enjoy!