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25.12.2019 / Czech national championship

Czech national championship 2019 and strong Sonkal

Top of sport season took part in Nymburk this weekend. Some of Sonkals participated in Euros and Worlds, but Czech national championship is top of sport season for most of us. And nearly 30 of us went there to show what (not only) sport skills are in them.
Thank to Sonkal punctuality we arrived in time and managed to weigh, register, accomodate and take dinner in a bit longer than one hour. Whole evening without duties was nice suprise for older of us. Chat in sport bar and enough time to sleep well for coming event.

We got second place in schools´ overall score. Only one gold medal in front of Karviná and 10 behind GBHS. It is worthy to mention that we had the smallest group. GBHS brought 3 times more competitors than us!
We also took some trophies for the most succesful competitors (Tereza Štekerová, Vita Gagloeva) and you may go through our successes in competition section of our website.

It was nice experience for me to coach with Ondřej Vrábel as he decided to work even more for Sonkal after years of organizing events and lecturing referees. We were pretty busy and it was good to have Verča Holečková to cover our backs.

But performance of Sonkals´ was what made me happier than successes. Nearly everyone practiced and fought for 150% compared to what I normally see. So I will forget who got what medal or not, but won´t forget how Misa Hudák, blue belt, fights other team´s black belt and does everything he knows with heart loosing just 1-2 points, but winning my respect. How Ondra Faltin and Jirka Novák outscore tough hitters (with intention to injure!) of opponent team them in master manner. How Vita carefully listen to my advices after first round of final and then do everything I told her (bandae dolyo chagi to head as in movie :o) ). How Míra Novák (our veteran) fought in manner even ten years older may be afraid of and takes silver in power breaking despite former and present national team members took part. How Honza Dvořáček with his "I am not good and will loose" attitude beats younger ones, national team members and lose only in final with our Stepan. Not because of luck, but because he showed what is in him really. I believe Ondra may add plenty of such experiences. I was also happy to shake hands with other coaches after emotional matches as I believe fighting ends with end of match and who keeps sport wrong-doings in him for future takes more bad than good from Taekwondo.

And it is good to realise that every success is work of plenty of people. People who teaches you, ones who spend hundreds of hour doing school and federation paperwork, family and friends, ones who destroy their vocal cords motivating you and also ones who don´t have to reach medals, but train hard and are great mindful training partners. But after all, you are the one who got the medal and you are mostly responsible for it. And that is the Taekwondo that is worthy to be part of.

Congratulation to everyone participating, we again showed that Sonkal is worthy.

Martin Svitek, one of the instructors
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