Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

20.12.2003 / Taekwon-do ITF demonstration

Taekwon-do demonstration before christmas holidays

On Friday 19th December our club presented Taekwon-Do ITF demostration during enterteinment morning in grammar school Přípotoční in Prague. We performed patterns, foot and hand techniques, some forms of sparring, special techniques, power breaking and also short selfdefence show. Our exhibition had great response and applause from student spectators.

8.12.2003 / 6th Budoshow

Photos from Brno"s Budoshow

Today we put online more than 150 photos from 6th Budoshow in Brno. This Budoshow take a place as usual in sport hall "Na Vodové". More than 3 hours long program was fulled with demonstrations of martial arts, styles and sports. More information will follow as soon as possible. Movies should be available during Christmass holidays.

6.12.2003 / 4th Fighter's Budoshow

Movies from exciting martial arts evening

We would like to present you movies from prague"s Fighter"s Budoshow 2003, which took a place on 23rd Nomember in sport hall of Sparta Praha. Let"s start with 3 movies - Taekwon-do ITF, Viet Vo Dao and Karate JKA. Today we added 2 new movies with Okinawa karate and Freestyle demonstration by David Stránský. Until the end of year we have prepared movies with Taekwondo WTF, Dynami Kickbox aerobic and big show freestyle team. We want to make movie with Wu Shu demonstration.

25.11.2003 / 4th Fighter's Budoshow

Full 4 hours with martial arts demonstrations

Sparta"s sport hall on Sunday 23rd November belonged 4 hours to many martial arts and sports. Complete list of presented martial arts is here here (only in Czech). First three movies from Prague"s Budoshow you can download in Video gallery section. Other movies will follow.

COMPETITION

15.12.2003 / 5th Christmass youth championship of Naeryo chagi school

Three cups for best club, female junior and female kid competitor

Last competition this year in Czech republic was „Fifth Christmas tournament“ held in České Budějovice (13.12.2003). In sport hall with five rings ruled Christmas spirit and after break majorettes´ show makes whole competition more interesting and colorful. Our team, led by trainer Ondra Vrábel, was made up just from 10 competitors and referee Jan Dvořák, but despite of this fact, we achieved nice results and positions. Though Lukáš Topol didn’

1.12.2003 / 2nd regional competition Prague

Pictures, informations and results

Second regional Prague competition took place in ZS Campanus, where taekwondo school Hosinsool has its regular trainings. 73 competitors from taekwondo schools Dan-Gun, Hwa-Rang, Silla, Hosin Sool and Sonkal took part in this event. Sonkal got lot of gold medals in patterns, not only because of high number of our competitors, but because our skills. Category male kids 6.-5.kup won Lukáš Topol and in 4.kup and above Jan Konár practiced

24.11.2003 / 2nd competition of CYT 2003

8 golden medales

On Saturday (22nd November) more than 150 young from youth talented organizations came to Třebon to compare their skills. On third event of this kind this year (national meeting of this organizations) 16 competitors was from Sonkal. The most succesful category for our members were as always patterns. Gold medals in male kids got Lukáš Topol (6.-5. kup) and Jan Konár (4.-3. kup). Between female kids 4. kup and above Dominika Bardonová a Ivana Hřebačková were in final, this time Dominika practiced better. Between ju

3.11.2003 / Kids, juniors & seniors Czech Republic Championship

Both Czech national champions juniors female are from Sonkal

From Friday (30th October) to Sunday (2nd November) Czech National Championship took place in south bohemia town – Třeboň. For the first time in history, all cathegories (kids, juniors, seniors) had competed during only one weekend. This change meant that 454 competitors from 24 taekwon-do schools have participated here – it´s the largest competitors number in history. Our taekwon-do school couldn´t miss at this event, so 26 competitors who formed 4 teams (f

13.10.2003 / 2nd CZECH OPEN

Photos today, informations tommorow !

International tournament „2. Czech Open“ took place in Třeboň during weekend 10.-12. October 2003, organized by Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation. Organizing of the competition itself was task for Prague taekwon-do school Sonkal cooperating with referee chief Dr. Rostislav Kaňka. About 170 competitors from 22 taekwon-do schools from Czech Republic, France, Greenland, Slovenia and Slovakia participated. Few world vice-champions competed here: Martin Kountchev from France (pattern seniors male IV. Dan), Hana Han

29.9.2003 / 2nd CZECH OPEN

General informations

General informations for Czech Open 2003 are available in several languages: General information in English (PDF) General information in German (PDF) General information in Spanish (PDF) General information in Russian

31.7.2003 / XIII. Seniors World Championship

9.7.2003 / XIII. Seniors World Championship

World Championship movies

At present time we hardly working on movies from 13th World Seniors Championship. As first we bring you exclusive D.P.R. Korea demonstration team movie! Movie is cutted from two digital cameras with different view angle. The most interesting sequences are replayed slowly. We hope you will like it. Next week we will put on our website some fights from World Championship - for example finale patterns female III. dan, finale patterns male IV. dan, finale sparring male -54kg and -71kg and more :-). Today we add new movie from World Championship in Greece. We start with finale patterns

23.6.2003 / Juniors division A & B, kids republic competition

The most succesful school is Sonkal

On Saturday (21st June) 213 participants from 18 Czech taekwon-do schools competed in Třeboň. This tournament is counted as a first round of the Official Czech champion serie. Despite the fact that our team had to do without few experienced members (Hlůže, Deutschová or both sisters Bardonová), Sonkal had 15 competitors here, which practiced pretty faultlessly. In patterns (tul), Sonkal always has few

16.6.2003 / XIII. Seniors World Championship

Photos from World Champs

During today"s evening we put online 344 sorted pictures from 13th Seniors World Championship (Thessaloniki, Greece). Up to Wednesday we would like to make movie with amazing demonstration of korean Taekwon-do ITF (patterns, techniques, pre-arranged sparring, self-defense, breaking and special techniques with multi kicks in the air). We hope that next week we bring other movies with final matches of our competitors. Full results lists with entry forms of each country is available HERE (PDF for

12.6.2003 / XIII. Seniors World Championship

First results from WC in Greece

Czech Republic have got first medals from senior WC in Greece: We have World Champion !!! 1. place special techniques senior male - Jaromír Michl 2. place Patterns senior female III. dan - Šárka Kaňková (1. place to Korea) 2. place Patterns senior female II. dan - Aneta Jimenézová (1. place to Korea) 2. place sparring senior female -70 kg - Hana Hanousková 3. place special techniques senior female - Šárka Kaňková Our Master Hwang Ho Yong has gained VIII. degree ! an

7.6.2003 / XIII. Seniors World Championship

3 Sonkal members will represent Czech Republic

XIII. Senior World Championship is going to take place next week (11th to 15th June) in Thessalonica (Greece). Three members of Sonkal tkd school will compete here as a part of Czech national team - Hoang Quang Huy, Tomáš Bobek a Barbora Sýkorová. Regarding the presented line-up our competitors should take part in these disciplines: Hoang Quang Huy, sparring up to 54 kg Tomáš Bobek, sparring 80

2.6.2003 / 1st competition of CYT 2003

The most succesful female kid competitor from Sonkal

About 170 competitors from all 6 regional „Talented youth organizations“ came to Třebon to compare their skills, last Saturday. Our taekwon-do school was represented by 14 competitors, as members of talented youth organization Prague II. Kids competed in 3 disciplines and juniors in four. In kid category Ivana Hřebačková got gold medal in female patterns 4.kup and above and 2nd place in sparring up to 38 kg. Next silver m

13.5.2003 / 9th Juniors & 18th Seniors European Championships

Movies from european championship

One month from European Championship in Košice we bring you some movies. For now we prepared 4 sparring and 1 pattern matches. First in raw will be quater-final match of Hoang Quang Huy (Czech Republic) and Gialidis Stylianos (Greece) in sparring seniors male -54kg. In following days we will offer these: semi-final sparring seniors male -71kg - Jan Mraček (Czech Republic) and Yuriy Pavluk (Ukraine) final patterns seniors male IV. dan - Rostislav Kaňka (Czech Republic) and Nikolaj Bakardijev (Bulgaria) semi-final sparring seniors male -54kg - Hoang Quang

5.5.2003 / Seniors republic competition division A & B

1st round of Czech national championship without our competitors

First round of National Czech championship held in Třeboň this saturday. More than 60 senior competitors from both A and B cathegory competed. We thought that 5 our seniors were going to start there, but injuries or school responsibilities broke our plans. Only out trainers came to pass refree test form Czech taekwon-do ITF federation and during the beggining of the competition they made some patterns photos. Next competition will be 1. national talented youth tournament, which all members are dillignetly preparing to.

27.4.2003 / Kids, juniors & seniors Bohemia championship

Both most succesful junoirs female competitors are from Sonkal

On Saturday (26th March) 192 competitors from 13 taekwon-do schools took part in the Bohemia Championship held in Třeboň. Sonkal sent 25 competitors, who formed 4 teams (female kids, male and female juniors, male seniors). Despite of injuries of Hoang Huy (wasn´t able to took part in sparring) and Tomáš Bobek (wasn´t able to took part in sparring and special techniques), Sonkal ended as seco

15.4.2003 / 9th Juniors & 18th Seniors European Championships

Sonkal members did very well !

Czech national team has returned from European Championship (held in Košice) this evening. In spite of fact that organizers had only 2 months for the preparation, whole championship went well. Linda Deutschová and Bárbora Sýkorová, members of female junior team, took part in friday´s patterns matches. Patterns shown by our female junior team were excellent and it was their right to get gold medal.

3.4.2003 / 9th Juniors & 18th Seniors European Championships

Four Sonkal members going to Euro 2003

Four Sonkal Taekwon-do ITF school members are going to participate in IX. Junior and XVIII. Senior European championship held in Košice (Slovakia). Linda Deutschová, Bára Sýkorová and Tomáš Bobek will leave with main part of czech national team on Sunday (6.4.2003). Hoang Huy will arrive to Slovakia during wednesday´s evening.

2.4.2003 / 6th Juniors world championship

The best of 6th Juniors World Championship

We have provided you a plenty of videos this year, at first from 6. Junior World Championship with individual matches of our national team´s members. Than 2 videos from "Tournament for juniors and seniors" held in January. In March big serie from 8. German Open followed. Nowadays, our website offer 99 videos from various events. To make special video

15.3.2003 / I. Regional competition Prague

!!! FIVE the most successful competitors from Sonkal !!!

First Prague regional competition took place in our gym at Černý Most. During morning registration Petr Šindler´s signature were added to competitors list - together 98 competitors. At first seniors (both A and B, male and female cathegories) faced off in patterns, sparring, special techniques and power breaking. Two gold medals won Tomáš Bobek (sparring A above 71kg and special techniques), one gold medal added Hoang Huy (sparring A up to 71 kg) a

10.3.2003 / 2nd CZECH OPEN

Basic informations about tournament

Sonkal Taekwon-do school is going to organize international tournament named CZECH OPEN. Whole competition will be under the auspices of Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation. Tournament is designated for kids (up to age of 12 including), juniors (13-17 years old) and seniors (18 years and above). Basic facts about coming competition: 10th October - registration, accomodation 11th October - kids competition + juniors and seniors coloured belts

5.3.2003 / 8th German Open

Movies from Germany

During this week, videos from Germany Open(patterns and sparring) are going to be avalaible .We want to give one video every day. Unfortunately , the most attractive duels of our Honag Huy weren´t recorded :o(

3.3.2003 / 8th German Open

Big sussess of Czech National team

On Thursday´s evening (27th of February) Czech national team left to Dortmund in Germany to took part in 8th German Open. Four members of Sonkal left too, because their national team membership. Sonkal competitors were always succesful in Germany – Hoang Quang (Pepa) Huy won his weight cathegory up to 54 kg two times and he wanted to repeat his succes this year too. During this two days championship taekwondoists from Germany, Netherland, Belgium,

31.1.2003 / I. Regional competition Prague

23.1.2003 / Juniors and seniors tournament division A (red and black belts)

Two sparring matches

From January"s Tournament juniors & seniors we chose two matches with sparring. Today we put on-line semi-finale match of Hoang Huy (Sonkal) versus Martin Steinbauer (Dan-Gun) in cathegory seniors male -63kg. Tommorow it will be again semi-finale match, but seniors male -80kg, Michal Kosatko (TKD Frýdek-Místek) & Jiri Teslík (Il-Dong Ostrava).

18.1.2003 / Juniors and seniors tournament division A (red and black belts)

The most successful junior female competitor is from Sonkal

Junior and senior group “A“ (red and black belts) tournament took place, as always, in Třebon. It was first competition organized by Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation this year, but unlike last years this competiton´s results are not counted into score for the official „Czech national champion“ for an actual year. The ma

14.1.2003 / 6th Juniors world championship

Fights of members czech national team

After time difficulties with VHS cassettes making, we are focused on making videos for our web. These are avalaible now: pattern juniors female II. dan, Aneta Jiménezová (CZE) versus Nicole Stratychuk (CAN) finale sparring juniors female +60kg, Petra Tošnarová (CZE) versus Neelia Ferraro (ARG) semi-finale sparring juniors female -60kg, Barbora Sýkorová (CZE) versus Ilona Dziala (POL) sparring juniors male -70kg, Jan Mraček (CZE) versus Przemyslaw Smutek (POL) finale sparring juniors male -70kg, Jan Mraček (CZE) versus Miki Samo (SLO)

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29.10.2003 / XIV. Sonkal sport camp

Training for Czech Republic National Championship

From Friday 24th to Tuesday 28th of October 14th Sonkal training camp took place in one of our favorite locations Frýdštejn, which we pretty adore not only because of its rich breakfasts and great sauna. Nine trainings in 5 days was dedicated mainly to sport preparation before National championship which is approaching (it will take place this weekend in Třeboň). Together with sport preparation it was of course (at least I hope) few nice days with good friends which gave us new experiences a

1.9.2003 / XIII. Sonkal sportcamp

Photos from Sonkal summer camp

Next training camp (13th in Sonkal history) is behind us. This one, the longest training camp in Sonkal´s history (Sonkal members are getting tougher and tougher, 12 days of trainings are really big challenge for everyone), took place in small village Malé Svatoňovice with wonderful surroundings of Jestřebí mountains. This village is well-known as a birth place of brothers Čapek. Our bus with more than 40 participants, not only from Czech Republic, arrived to th

31.8.2003 / New Students' Recruitment in Kladno

6.8.2003 / 1st Summer camp Taekwon-do ITF with Master Hwang Ho Yong

Reportage by Martin Svitek

In days from 31st July to 3rd August 2003 first training camp with master Hwang Ho Yong (VIII. Dan) took place at Ostrava college given by Marek Lazor (II. Dan, chef trainer of Il-Dong Taekwon-do School Ostrava). At first I want to truly thank for organizing such a great event. About 40 taekwondoists from 1. kup to III. Dan came, including few taekwon-do schools chiefs and former national team members. Whole camp was dedicated to taekwondoists who are preparing themselves for next degree tests. Trainer Pavel Bareš (II.Dan), Martin Hlůže and Martin Svitek (both 1. kup) took par

23.4.2003 / XII. Sonkal sportcamp

Easter sport camp was excellent

Fourty four Sonkal members left to Radvanice on Thursday morning (17th April). After two hours in the bus we put up ourselves in Radvanice pension, took lunch and our trainings could have started. During 9 2-hours trainings basic techniques, patterns (Chon-ji to Ge-beak), kicks (basic, turning and flying), special techniques, sparring drills and sparring itself were practiced. Power breaking was tra

4.2.2003 / Final report for year 2002

1.Sport achievments As well as years before, in 2002 our students took part in many competitions organized by Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation. In international matches, Sonkal was represented by four of us, also members of Czech national team - Tomáš Bobek a Hoang Quang Huy in senior cathegory, Barbora Sýkorová and Linda Deutchová in juniors. These 4 took part in Slovenia Open, Germany

13.1.2003 / Course with Master Hwang Ho Yong (VII. dan)

Great 3 hours course with Master Hwang Ho Yong

On last Saturday (11th of January) Prague taekwondo practicioners have first opportunity to train with master Hwang Ho Yong (VII.Dan, official founder of taekwondo in Czech republic) after two years. Thirty-five red and black belts met in our gym. Highest degree was, except master Hwang, of course, Radka Heydušková (Dlouhá) III.Dan. Few second degrees came to train at this course (all of them are trainers) from taekwondo school Sonkal, Hosinsool and Kwang Myong. After

6.1.2003 / Course with Master Hwang Ho Yong (VII. dan)