Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

8.12.2007 / 9th Christmas championship youth of Naeryo Chagi school

Ceske Budejovice’s Sports Hall in Dlouha louka hosted on the 1st of December the 9th year of the popular Christmas Youth Championship organized by the Naeryo Chagi Club. Despite the fact that our club did not attend this tournament we bring some information and more than 200 photos taken during this event. The tournament is in past year intended not only for youth (pupils and juniors) but also for seniors. Even there were two parallel events carried out in the same term – the sport camp of the Czech National Represent

19.11.2007 / 2nd national competition of CYT

7 gold medals from kingdom of snow

It is noon of November 16, sun is shining above Prague, but chilly weather says that it will be long way to Frýdek-Místek. Bus with talented youth organization (TYO) Prague II team starts nearly 400 km journey with the only objective - compare with other talented youth organizations´ teams. Despite of Friday traffic our trip passes quickly, but as we go through city named "Border" (Hranice in Czech) weather changes dramatically. Snow makes our ride slower and creates traffic jams. We have to wait in 8 km long traffic jam just fe

15.11.2007 / 13th junior & 22nd senior European Championship

Demonstration of korean team and fights of Czech national team members

There was Budoshow during opening ceremony of European Championship. Numbers of different martial arts was presented in 3 hour program. At the end was demonstration of Korean Taekwon-do team. You can see whole show of Koreans in our footage. Other serie contains fights of Czech national team members during championship. We published some fights shooted on our camera.

11.11.2007 / Czech Republic Championship of kids, juniors, seniors and veterans

Nationals in motion

You can download some movies from Czech Republic Championship which took a place in Třeboň sport hall from 2nd till 4th November. All spectators could see world quality of Taekwon-do because many european and world medalists competed in final"s matches! Other set contains finale matches in sparring junior male and female. There are also two movies with male & female self-defense.

9.11.2007 / Czech Republic Championship of kids, juniors, seniors and veterans

Photos from nationals

Czech national championship 2007 was special in many ways. At first, this year´s championship took 3 days instead of 2. Next, veteran category was officially presented in this event. And at last but not least, fifth part of competitions Taekwon-do was added – self-defense. But start from the beginning. Third day of competition was added because of veteran category and also self-defense competition. Friday was dedicated to kids and veterans. Juniors´ competitions and also self-defense got all Saturday and finally Sunday

18.10.2007 / 13th junior & 22nd senior European Championship

Photos from Estonia

There were some pictures in Tallinn (the capital of Estonia) taken in the evening before the European championship began. Its architecture remembers middle Europe very close. Atmosphere in small streets is similar to Czech historical nooks. Next morning the championship started on 6 rings. 5 of them were used for patterns and the 6th was used for special breaking techniques for whole day. Later this ring was used for power breaking techniques. We had wanted to take a lot of good pictures as usually. Unfortunately there were

12.10.2007 / 13th junior & 22nd senior European Championship

1.10.2007 / II. round Prague's regional competition

Overall champions of Prague region

The last day on September, there was last competition from Prague competitive series in Campanus School. About 150 competitors from 7 clubs from Prague region competed together in 3 age categories (kids, juniors and seniors). 38 competitors were from Sonkal club that made us the second most numerous clubs at all. The first one was Hoosinsool club. In spite of Sonkal was missing some favorite competitors we managed to get a lot of medals. Sonkal guys managed to be best in these categories: Monika Junová – junior

17.6.2007 / Czech Open 2007

International tournament Czech Open came off on Saturday 16/6/07. Twenty tkd schools with more than 150 competitors arrived to sport hall in Třeboň. We have to mention that also competitors from Greenland and Czech national team took part in this event. Sonkal got 4 gold medals – Veronika Holečková (female kids patterns 6.-5.grade), Linda Deutschová (female juniors patterns 2.grade and above), Lucie Slavětínská (female juniors sparring A -52kg) and Veronika Vihanová (female seniors sparring B). Whole event was finished by

4.6.2007 / Moravia Championship kids, juniors and seniors

Photos from competition

Just one week after Bohemian championship next big event took place - Moravian championship.More than 170 taekwondoists met in Frýdek-Místek this Saturday (2/6/07). Kids, juniors and seniors compared their skill on 3 rings in four items (kids just in 3) regular for Taekwon-do competitions. The most successful school title was gotten by Taekwon-do Club Brno. Enjoy atmosphere of whole event on 182 pictures taken by Vláďa Švanda

28.5.2007 / XII. World senior's championship

World championship in our movies

We would like to bring you in following days some movies from 15th World Senior Championship. At the start will be movies of female self-defense. After that we will continue with male self-defense. We have shooted also all finale matches of pattern and sparring.

28.5.2007 / I. Prague's regional competition

Today we bring you two movies from 1st round of Prague"s regional competition. This tournament have been held at begin of March. In first movie you can see finale match in pattern junior female 2nd kup and higher. There were fighting two Sonkal"s girls Linda Deutchová & Monika Juniová. Second movie contents finale of sparring junior female with Linda against Anna Pösingerová from Kwang Myong Roztoky. Tomorrow we put on website movie with self-defense demonstration, it was shown by teams of Linda and Monika.

27.5.2007 / Bohemia Championship kids, juniors and seniors

Medals harvest

One of the most important tournament in first half of year is Bohemia Championhip which took a place in Třeboň on Saturday May 26. Sonkal was presented with 27 competitors. Our team was missing some good competitors but our results were very good. Sonkal"s won in all three age groups together 23 gold, 12 silver and 11 bronze medals. Our club in overall standing won 2nd place , 1st was Tong-Il České Budějovice (25 gold medales). Full medals list of Sonkal"s you can find in success section.

14.5.2007 / 1st national tournament of CYT

This year first tournament of young talentes

On Saturday 12th May took a part in Trebon"s sport hall first tournament of young talentes in this year. There was 160 competitors from 6 centers. They competed in two age groups (kids and juniors) in 3 and 4 items. Our Center won 2nd place in centers overall. All our medals sucesses are in success section. Photos are available in full article.

25.4.2007 / XII. World senior's championship

Photos & info from the Worlds

15th senior World championship took place in small Slovenian city Bled, which is nearby Austrian borders. Referee seminar took place here just before championship itself (same situation as last year). Because of this, 3 referees left Prague on March 21 – Ondřej Vrábel (IV. Dan), Pavel Bareš (III. Dan) and Lukáš Martiník (III. Dan). The seminar was organized in new way compared to last’s year one. We had 1 day of trainings to compare techniques and to unite them and then 2 days of theoretical lessons about new rul

18.3.2007 / I. Prague's regional competition

We won club overall

First this year local Prague championship took place in Petřiny sport hall on Sunday. Seven from nine Prague schools took part with 96 competitors in total. Senior competition started after registration and weighting, then kids and juniors fought at the end of day. Just before junior event we had opportunity to enjoy demonstration of the youngest branch of sport Taekwon-do - Self-defence. It’s a pity that only 2 teams competed here and both were from Sonkal. First team was composed of Monika Junová as heroine and Mart