23.10.2014 / Sparring seminar with Hwang Su-il

Tekken live

At the end of this summer I received information that VIP guest for this year's Budoshow in Brno is Hwang Su-il from Japan. His visit was automatically linked with seminar before the show. Organiser of Budoshow correctly predicted a huge interest of Taekwondists and because of that he organised two seminars.
The first one on Saturday was for lower grades and for wide public. Sunday seminar belonged to red and black Taekwondo belts.

I did not keep this info for myself and it led to 14-member Sonkal expedition. Sonkal members have played Tekken on summer camps for a long time so the motivation to visit this seminar was not only to gain some new matsogi skills.

The seminar began right after 10 a.m. with active warm up and after that there was some explaining and a lot of kicking. Some basic stepping and sliding were part of the warm up. This showed up as very complicated and many times legs were unable to obey the brain. Master Tekken repeatedly pointed out the most important things in matsogi - to ease your body, maintain correct distance, hold body straight, keep balance and watch your opponent eyes to eyes.

Three-hour-long seminar ran away so quickly and at the end Master Hwang took a lot of pictures with us because picture with Master Tekken is a Taekwondistic necessity :-)