31.3.2023 / Online international instructor course with Grandmaster Hwang Ho-yong

More than 70 participants

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 out.

A big positive was the great interest from all over the world, with participants from Hong Kong and Malaysia on one side and Canada and the United States on the other. On the negative side were Saturday's internet outages at the Řepy Sports Centre, which we managed to eliminate by quickly moving to a space with a mobile signal. The broadcast could continue via mobile data.

We were pleased with the participation of other taekwondo grandmasters - Wayne Brown (England), Leslie Hutchison (Scotland), Yeo Chin Huat (Sweden) and Augustus Mitchel (Grenada).

The whole course was attended by one of our coaches - Pavel Šnábl, who is currently preparing for the IV. dan exam. Pavel successfully passed the exam at the end of the course, as did 20 other candidates.

The next online event will be a special technical seminar on 6 and 7 May, again with Grandmaster Hwang Ho-yong, which will be extremely free of charge and will be open to all international referees and national coaches. The aim will be to unify basic techniques, patterns, special techniques and power breaking. I am confident that we will be able to manage this event as well, although we can expect 200 participants.