Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

COMPETITION

1.12.2017 / Devil's cup

27.11.2017 / Cup of Czech Taekwon-Do ITF Fedaration

20.11.2017 / Devil's cup

20.11.2017 / Czech national championship

Four individual titles & second place overall

Photos from Czech nationals in Nymburk are complete!

19.11.2017 / 2nd meeting of CYT

Winners for the second time this year

Also the second round of "talented youth centers" competition went very well for center Prague 2 and this centre won again. Taekwondo competitors met in Nymburk this time and for two days they compared their skills. Saturay was dedicated for youth competitors and Sunday for juniors. Sonkal members earned several gold medals for our center, especially four starts of youth green and blue belt competitors ended up with four gold medals! At the end, center Prague 2 was awarded as most successful centre for both this competition and the year 2017. Complete list of results can be found

13.11.2017 / Czech national championship

Impressions and experiences from Czech Championship

On the weekend 3rd – 5th of November there was the traditional Championship of the Czech Republic in Taekwon-Do. This year it was held in Nymburk again. As usual, the gathering was on Friday 3rd of November at 5 o´clock p.m. in the sport hall. It was followed by weighing of the contestants, giving out the accommodation and the tickets for lunch and dinner. The opening of the competition was on Saturday 4th of November at 8:30 a.m. The morning belonged to the pupil category which started with the patterns. In the afternoon the senio

3.11.2017 / Czech national championship

Watch national championship on-line

When you are not able get in Nymburk personally you can watch online streams: Saturday Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3

2.11.2017 / Czech national championship

22.10.2017 / Kicboxing tournament Czech Open

Kickboxing experiences - Czech Open 2017 CSFU

Jirka Novák and Bert Kindl asked me about possibility of participating in some kickboxing tournament to get new experiences and motivation. After discussing with rest of Sonkal instructors and picking suitable events one problem occured - we cannot clone ourselves and there is so many activities that it took more than year to really took part in one. We took part in international tournament in kickboxing Czech Open 2017 in semicontact disciplines (semicontact only on paper everyone hit hard ;o) ). The magnificent seven participated (Pavel Šnábl, Honza Dvořáček, Jana Kovářov�

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22.9.2017 / 20th Adult World Championship

Photos from stay in Beijing and World Championship in Pchongyang

All photos from our stay in Beijing and also 20th World Championship in Pchongyang are available. Today added 10 photos from visit of Czech Embassy in Pchongyang. Already available videos of Czech team members in patterns. Also individual and team final matches. Please accept our apology because pattern adult female III. degree optional pattern is not complete (some technical issues). Updated videos from day two - sparring matches. You can watch fights of Sonkal member Jiří Novák and also all final matches day 2. Today we udpated video gallery with three movies of Czech nationa

9.9.2017 / 20th Adult World Championship

Sonkal at the World championship

What looked like music from distant future at the beginning now is getting really close. We are talking about World Championship of seniors (the twelfth in the order). Foursome of students of our school is about to visit Pyongyang in North Korea. At first, Ondřej Vrábel and other two referees Rostislav Kaňka and Tomáš Kuba went to the Far East on 10th of September. Not that it is necessary to go to the venue in advance, but such a trip is explicitly asking for several days visiting of China, Beijing specifically. The threesome of contestants – Tereza Žilinská, Tereza Štekerová

25.6.2017 / Ljublana Open

Road, Taekwon-Do, road

At the weekend 19th to 21st of May team of our school Sonkal made a trip to Slovenia to attend the 15th year of Ljubljana Open. This competition was attended by 280 competitors from 23 clubs of nine countries. We arrived in Slovenia on Friday evening around seven o´clock p.m. After a whole-day trip sitting in the car we got weighed and then we went to accommodate ourselves. Next morning we arrived at 9 o´clock a.m. in the hall. We made some warm-up and the competition started at 10 o´clock a.m. All of the categories of patterns and sport sparring were finished in a chaotic manner. It

22.6.2017 / 1st meeting of CYT

Talented in Ostrava

The North Moravia meetings of centre of talented youth (STM) recently means to us getting up very early in the morning. We experienced that on second Saturday of May as well. Sonkal part of united team STM Prague 2 set off a while after 5 a.m. from Černý Most to arrive about 11 a.m. at the sport hall in Ostrava. After necessary weighing of competitors for the sparring everybody underwent training program of Taekwon-Do and non-Taekwon-Do activities. The Saturday part of competition started after 3 p.m. and contained the contests of young and older pupils. In the patterns contest Ondra Falt

22.6.2017 / Sonkal Open

Sonkal Open - how to handle a crowd

Our Taekwon-do school has organised local Prague competitions for several years and in many aspects it's aa routine competition. Few years ago we started league system, which is more time-demanding, but is really good for competitors to gain more experience. Last year we maneged around 200 competitors, but in the year 2017 a big challenge came up - 279 competitors. That is a solid crowd of taekwondists. In the beginning I would like to mention high competition of people who arrived to school sports hall in Prague - Petriny. Many current

20.6.2017 / Open Czech national championship of Czech National Union

Czech National TKD Union Championship

In the middle of May, opened Czech National TKD Union Championship took place in Benatky nad Jizerou. After few small problems, short opening ceremony started the competition. Sonkal came with few color belts and 5 experienced black belts. Our competitors earned a lot of medals in patterns and sparring. You can have a look in Competitions - Successes section. Black belts also won the competition in team patterns. Only optional pattern was performed. We were also able to earn few medals in power breaking and special jumping techniques.

19.6.2017 / Devil's cup

19.6.2017 / Sonkal Open

256 contestants at Petřiny

At the weekend on 27th of May the competition Sonkal Open took place at Petřiny in Prague. There were 21 schools and 256 competitors taking part in it. Around eight o´clock a.m. the Sonkal team assembled in the gym to prepare the contest area. The competition began at ten o´clock a.m. using the system each against each. First in the most were the patterns´ competition of pupils followed by the pupils´ sparring. In all our pupils gained 5 medals. The goblet for the most successful pupil got Ondřej Faltin who won 2 golden medals. After lunch the juniors´ and seniors´ categories followed.

30.5.2017 / 23rd Junior, 32nd Adult, 9th Veteran & 7th Youth European Championships

Success of Taekwondists from Sonkal at European Championship

Old Liverpool harbour hosted this year's European ITF Taekwon-do Championship. Not the harbour itself, but the modern arena in the neighbourhood of historical Albert Dock. Taekwondists from Sonkal were traditionally a part of Czech National Team, but this year in record number of seven competitors. In individual patterns, Jiri Novak and Tereza Zilinska were awarded both with bronze medals. Unluckily, performances of Tomas Vodicka, Jana Kovarova and Lenka Hrstkova ended just under the medal positions. Right after, six Sonkal competitors starred in team patterns, where teams of junior male

25.5.2017 / Sonkal Open

Two days to the kick-off

This year Sonkal Open is just one step away and the enormous turmoil of competition is going to burst out on this Saturday (27th of May). Despite the canceling of the double starts we registered all-time high number of competitors – 279. They are composed of 19 Czech schools and 2 Slovakian schools. Sonkal Open is traditionally organized under the auspices of Czech federation of Taekwon-Do ITF and by its financial and material contribution. Build your form for Saturday and show it at School of Petřiny!

19.5.2017 / Sonkal Open

Only one week left

Only one week is holding us from this year Sonkal Open in Petřiny in Prague. What is awaiting the competitors this time? As usual, there would be big number of contests thanks to the system each against each or more precisely a few groups. Due to high number of contestants we were forced to cancel the possibility do compete in two categories. Even though, the competitors will be awarded by the higher number of matches in groups. All of the contestants are awaited by many matches of pattern competition. The blue, red and black belt holders also the sport sparring. There are some medals for

25.4.2017 / 23rd Junior, 32nd Adult, 9th Veteran & 7th Youth European Championships

Share with us look in Liverpool

Yesterday we arrived to Liverpool and today we had opurtunity to do sightseeing of historical center. Look at first photos and also our FB pages for more photos and also a few short videos! Photos from whole European Championship already published. On Sunday we add a few photos from after competition time.

23.4.2017 / 23rd Junior, 32nd Adult, 9th Veteran & 7th Youth European Championships

Liverpool = football? Maybe. Liverpool = taekwondo? Yes

We had to wait for long sixteen years for the return of the great tournament to British Islands. The last time World Championship took place in Edinburgh was in the year 2000. For me it was a little bit emotional for that year it was my first big Tournament. Now we have the year 2017 and I am accompanying the Czech national team at Europe championship with number 17. I hope there would be more time for sightseeing than many years ago in severe north. And if not, I would not mind too much for I go there because of the umpiring. Number seven mentioned above is peculiar because across the English

22.3.2017 / Czech Open (youth, juniors & adults) - info pack

The International Tournament in Nymburk with Five Hundred Participants

I dare say that the name Czech Open took roots in minds of those who are practising Taekwon-Do ITF, at least in Czech Republic, and it became known to them as much the capital city of their land. For Czech Open held in Nymburk is really international competition that every year greets numbers of participants from different places of the world. Their number grows up every year and this year we could count over 500 participants, which was truly praiseworthy. The beginning of the contest was on Friday 17th of March 2017 when all of the contestants had to sign up and be weighed. Unlike previous

16.3.2017 / Nitra Cup ( info pack )

Slovakian experience

Finally we made photos from Nitra Cup 2017. Short info will be later. Our school makes regular visit to competitions and not just in Czech Republic. It´s not only a sport what we are learning but it´s more a martial art in it´s all glory. The main goal is healthy life-style, improving physical condition, techniques and self-defence. The recruitment for kids, youth and adults is all the year round in our gyms. You can find us in Černý Most, Petřiny and Horní Počernice. More information here