On Saturday the 19th an internal online seminar with Grandmaster Hwang Ho-yong took place. The seminar was broadcasted on the YouTube channel of Czech taekwondo federation. 276 taekwondo practitioners from 34 countries attended the seminar! Nearly 130 attendees were foreigners. Beside that, members of Sonkal were a majority of the team that made this seminar happen. Master Ondřej Vrábel and assistant Pavel Zavadil led the seminar alongside Grandmaster and two of Sonkal's students provided the necessary behind the scenes support. Alexander Mach was the one changing cameras and making sure tha

Saturday's afternoon at Černý Most park U Čeňku was dedicated to free time activities. Sonkal was also presented, you can look at photos from our two demonstrations of Taekwon-Do.

Saturday described by Veronika Žilinská: While Easter camp was cancelled due to Corona virus, we are now lucky that we are after one year in Malé Svatoňovice on a summer camp that everyone was looking forward to. On Saturday 22.8. we met in front of Vybíralova school on Černý Most where mostly older, but also younger helped with loading of all equipment to the cars. There was many people helping so it went very fast and we could head soon to Malé Svatoňovice, this time by two busses. After the arrival, older prepared the sports hall and in the meantime younger accommodat

While reading Taekwon-do Encyclopaedia I was always more attracted to non-technical topics like philosophy, moral culture and other with overreach to daily life. I had enough techniques and fighting from regular nearly everyday trainings. It was sometime after my I. Dan test when I found chapter with activities that should develop moral culture of student. One of it are cold baths. And because during that times I took everything in Encyclopaedia as great idea I started practicing it without question and continue doing so daily for most of my adulthood. Citing from the book: „Cold showers

In the first video, you will visit Celetná Street and its surroundings with us. Celetná Street is part of the Royal Route. Find out more HERE. Also Russian info. Second part of our tour will bring you to Oldtown square (Staroměstské náměstí). Read more in English or

During the prolonged weekend 26.-29.6. we met each other at the intense seminar in our colleague´s gym in Brno city. The seminar was about deeper body corrections and breath work led by Martin Svitek (V. dan), my direct instructor. The adventure started by the travel by a train with Tereza Štekerová (II. dan), where we guessed what exactly we will do at the seminar. And not even at the seminar. We had a lot of time for check in and visit of the city center, where we tasted their culture. After the lunch in McDonald’s right next to the Astronomical Clock on the square we went to Brno do

Breathing correction is one of my key focuses in my personal training, but also in working with both patients and taekwondists as physical therapist. In these times with restrictions and canceled trainings it is perfect time to correct this basic movement principle. Focus on breathing also work as psychical hygiene. Breathing is vital life sign. Maybe you can´t imagine living without kicking, punching and fighting, but we would survive without it. But there is no life without breathing. Normally we do not think about it, but we are able to voluntarily control it (for example holding bre

I believe most of Czech taekwondoists are now partly living for Euro 2020 in Prague. Some trains hard at national team camps, some thinks about how to improve their students even a bit more, some spends plenty of hours with organizing work. Some may motivate themselves with sport taekwondo videos and look forward participating as spectators. I´ve been thinking about and studying not only what to do during training to improve, but also what not to do and what is worthy part of your regime out of dojang. Laziness is one danger, but other is self-destroying manner of doing everything har

A year went by and the Christmas exhibition time has come as the final Taekwon-do quest. The positive experiences of 2018 led us back to the Theatre in Horní Počernice. Unfortunately, as we experienced at the beginning of summer holidays one feels fate changes and this option fell due to the long-term reconstruction of the Theatre. Our next choice was the Plechárna in Černý Most. First, I would like to say it was not bad option at all – interesting interior, the possibility of refreshment, the base – ZŠ Vybíralova with all the material close by and mostly the very friendly staff