Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

27.12.2004 / Czech Republic championship kids, juniors and seniors

With nearly two months delay we bring you three matches from 2nd round of Czech National Championship which took a place in Brno. We chose finales in the highest pattern category of junior male I. dan, senior male I. dan and senior male II.-III. dan.

15.12.2004 / II. Prague's regional competition

10 golden medales with 15 competitors

On Saturday 11 December 2004 , we took part in second round of local Prague competition organized by tkd school Ge-baek Hosin sool. 122 competitors (15 from Sonkal) from 9 tkd schools met here. As school we took second place in Prague (10 gold medals). The most succesful male kid competitor was our Honza Konár. If we count places together with first round, we finished 3rd, but this fact cannot waste our happiness, for example bacause Honza Konár was also the most succesful competitor in male kids category in whole Prague , the b

6.12.2004 / 6th Christmass youth championship of Naeryo chagi school

Successful trip to České Budějovice

Today we put on our website 81 photos from 6th Christmas Youth Championship in České Budějovice. Tommorow we would like to add more informations.

29.11.2004 / II. Republic meating of CYT

Young talentes in Třeboň

Young talents met for the second time this year in Třeboň. Participants from all 6 local youth talented organizations compare their skills in both individual and team matches. Sonkal members did well and won 3 gold medals. Martina Kolandová in female juniors patterns 8.-7. kup, Iva Hřebačková in female kids sparring up to 50 kg and Petr Legner in male juniors B sparring 70 kg plus. Our local Prague II organization got 8 gold medals and ended on 3. place from 6. Translated by:

8.11.2004 / Czech Republic championship kids, juniors and seniors

443 competitors participated in Brno

First weekend of November is every year booked for top national competition – Czech National Championship. Since last year this competition has been for all age categories – kids, juniors and seniors. The championship took place in Brno (second biggest city in CZ) sport hall Vodova this year. Total of 443 competitors from 24 taekwon-do schools came to fight for medals. It was 80 participants more than last year what is really optimistic view for future, although hall was overcrowded. Sonkal sent 25 competi

18.10.2004 / I. Prague's regional competition

146 competitors participated in regional competition

Last Saturday (16th October) first round of local Prague championship took place in our gym on Černý Most. This time 146 competitors took part in all three age categories. This bout also matches in female seniors A and B held, unlike local competitions in past. All taekwon-do schools from region took part in this event. The most successful from our team were Pavel Zavadil (male junior A), who got 3 gold and 1 silver medal and Zuzana Kolmanová (female kids) who got 2 gold

17.9.2004 / 6th Juniors World Championship

12.8.2004 / 6th Juniors World Championship

Motions and sounds from junior championship

Today we start with publishing movies from 6th Junior World Championship in Malaysia. In first movie you can see finale match junior female -53kg between Barbora Sýkorová (member fo Sonkal and Czech national team) and Sin Yong He from DPR Korea. In following days we are going to present other fights of Czech national team members and we have also prepared some finale matches without Czechs. Petr Hasik new World Champion in special techniues and his jumps will not miss in our videogallery. We also put here all matches in new item - practical self-defense. Next video shows semi-fi

2.8.2004 / 6th Juniors World Championship

Sonkal girls in Junior World Championship in Malaysia

Czech Republic stand on 4th place overal, we acquired 1 gold, 3 silver and 7 bronze medals. Article from Malaysia is now writing. You can meanwhile look at 480 pictures.

20.7.2004 / 6th Juniors World Championship

Two of Sonkal members leaving to Malaysia

On Wednesday (21st July) Czech national team is going to leave our country from Ruzyne airport to compete on 6. junior and 1. in history veteran(40 yrs. and above) World championship in Malaysia.Czech republic will be represented by 17 competitors , 2 of this number are our members. Regarding their skills and successes Barbora Sykorová (T-ki World champion 2002 and europe champion 2003) and Lucka Kolmanová

23.6.2004 / 10th juniors & 19th seniors European Championship

Fights from Euros

Today we offer on our website first movie from 10th junior and 19th senior European Champinship which take a place in Sofia, Bulgaria. We start with finale match of senior female -58kg category - Hana Hanosková (Czech Republic) and Amelia Koleva (Bulgaria). For today we made match of Jan Mraček (Czech Republic) and A. Maksimenko (Ukraine). For following days we have prepared some other movies. For example semi-finale and finale matches of Jan Mraček, finale match with Jana Žylová (Czech Republic) in sparring senior female -63kg and jumps of Czech junior male team.

21.6.2004 / Czech republic Championship of kids, juniors and seniors (1st round)

Fights from 1st part of Czech Republic national championship

18.6.2004 / 10th juniors & 19th seniors European Championship

13.6.2004 / Czech republic Championship of kids, juniors and seniors (1st round)

Photos and information from competition

On 12th June 316 competitors from 23 taekwon-do schools from whole Bohemia and Moravia arrived to Třeboň to fight in First round of Czech national championship. Unlike the Bohemian championship that took place also in Třeboň 2 weeks ago our team had only 17 members. Because of recent grading, for few of us, this event was their first start in new – higher category. These grading changes showed mainly in patterns, so Sonkal after really long time didn’t take any gold medal. Nice achievement was Milan Fulmek´s silv

31.5.2004 / Kids, juniors a seniors Bohemia championship

First place in clubs overall summary

On Friday afternoon (28th May 2004) our team set out on our way from Prague to Třeboň. This team (26 competitors, 4 members of the tour) in spit of the transportation difficulties came to Třeboň to registration and weight-in in time. All our competitors who wanted to compete in sparring could be happy, because they could have stayed in their weight categories. We had to do some change in team of junior females. This team was as quality as the latest and competitors reached good performance.

17.5.2004 / 10th juniors & 19th seniors European Championship

Reportage by Linda Trubička Deutschová

Hi folks, I’m bringing you an article about 10. Junior and 19. Senior European championship. Our team had 31 competitors, plus 2 trainers, doctor (giving us drops against diarrhea), psychologist (fortunately no need for her, because no one got crazy during our journey), three referees, master, Czech federation president and two drivers. These two were useful not only for driving our bus, but mainly for bribing Bulgarian cops, who, having tough shift probably, got taste for our Coke, cigarettes and Czech beer and thankful to this fact we have gone through Bulgaria without any

7.5.2004 / 10th juniors & 19th seniors European Championship

Female European Champion in special techniques is from Sonkal !!!

Results of Czech national team after first day - Friday: 1. place - Edita Morkovcová - pattern junior female I. degree 1. place - Jan Chaloupka - pattern junior male I. degree 1. place - Tomáš Matějka - pattern junior male II. degree 1. place - Radka Heydušková - pattern senior female III. degree 1. place - Barbora Sýkorová - special techniques junior female 1. place - senior male team pattern 2. place - Aneta Merksbauerová - p

30.4.2004 / 10th juniors & 19th seniors European Championship

Czech national team is going to left for European Championship

Czech national team is going to left Prague on Sunday (2nd May) at 15 p.m. First of all, bus will stop in České Budějovice to pick up members from South Bohemia and then through Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia to Bulgarian capital – Sofia. The championship will start during Friday morning (7th May), but our competitors will have to go through registration on Thursday. Competition will end on Sunday (9th May) and national team will leave Bulgaria during Monday’s afternoon. Return is planned on early morning

29.3.2004 / 1st SUN OPEN

Sonkal"s members were successful

Junior part of Czech national team left Czech Republic from Strahov in the morning of 26th March 2004 with the only target – Slovenia. Slovenia because of 1st Sun Slovenia tournament which took place here. 34 taekwon-do schools took part in this event, that was 204 competitors in total. We had arrived to our destination after about 12 hours of pretty comfortable ride - bus was half empty, so at least we had enough space to stretch our legs

2.2.2004 / Republic tournament group A

Small group ours competitors

On 17th January of this year „Juniors and seniors A tournament“ took place, traditionally in Třeboň. First time in history, 4. and 3. grade holders had chance to took part in this event too. Linda Deutschová moved to junior category this year, but despite of fact that she had to fight with older and often more experienced opponents, she achieved medal position in matsogi (sparring). She lost with very experienced Pavla

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22.12.2004 / Christmas Taekwon-do demonstration for club members and their parrents

Exhibition show closed year 2004

We decided to arrange Christmas exhibition show this year to close year 2004 in our gym on černý Most. Show"s content was designed to perform all parts of our martial art and during one hour practise showed students of our club patterns individual and teams, kicks to catchers, all forms of sparring and selfdefense presentations against more attackers too. There didn"t miss presantations of power breaking and of course special breaking techniques. Each part was awarded by loud applause from spectators and it was sign for us to arran

25.11.2004 / 7th Budoshow

Motion pictures from Brno

Today we start publish movies from 7th Budoshow in Brno. First demonstration is Taekwon-do ITF. During afternoon will on-line presentation of very popular brazilian martial art Capoeira ! Now we continue with Wu Shu.

22.11.2004 / 5th Fighter's Budoshow

4 hours martial arts marathon

Week after Budoshow in Brno similar event in Prague took place – Fighter’s budoshow, which have been organized by Miroslav Sobotka (chief coach of Fighter’s factory pro gym, gym focused on kickboxing) and Martin Břeň (head-coach of taekwondo WTF school in Prague). This year budoshow site was changed to Congress´ center, what helped whole event to have much professional visage, unfortunately (same as in Brno) pretty lot of seats remained empty and compared to last year there were probably less spectators.

15.11.2004 / 7th Budoshow

7th martial art galashow in Brno

16.5.2004 / Taekwon-do ITF Sonkal demonstration

Taekwondo-ITF Sonkal demonstration

On Saturday May 15th 2004 demonstrated members of our club exhibition in Taekwon-do ITF with all it"s main parts during final rounds of bodybuilding and fitness. In two parts we practiced pattern and it"s application, step and semi-free sparring, selfdefence without and against the knife, short selfdefence show of two young people in love and of cource we cannot miss the atractive special techniques and power breaking of wooden boards.

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1.11.2004 / XVII. Sonkal sportcamp

Very good preparation for Czech national championship

Hi folks, we bring you (kind of late, sorry :o) article from elsewhere – from training camp in Borotín. After a long time we changed our destination and visit South of Bohemia. As soon as we left the bus, young and inteligent (how else) village footballers were staring at our girls, (who leaft the bus as first) thinning that Miloš Zapletal with Miss of Czech republic participants came. But unlike „Miss“ girls we manager to have two trainings that day. Accomodation was pretty fine. Few of us went through our funn

27.9.2004 /

Taekwon-do connecting people

As you know from older articles, Peter Regan visited our last and also this year summer camp (he is going to come for autumn one too) and because 10 days spent not only by training is time long enough to get know each other well and to speak about plenty of things, we have agreed about our visit in Switzerland to check towns and nature, uncover nature of Swiss people and also to help with trainings and show how do we teach and practice taekwon-do here in Czech republic. We arrived to cloudy Zurich at 7:30 AM 20.9.2004 aft

31.8.2004 / XVI. Sonkal sportcamp

We have survived (some haven’t) 10 days TKD marathon

Hi folks, I bring you small article about great training camp held in Malé Svatoňovice. We left on 21st August 9:00 from Černý Most, I’m sure more than 40 of us and moreover one participant from Switzerland – Peter Regan, who left his family for a while to see us and let us practice English language. We arrived just for the lunch :o) Only one two hour training waiting for us after lunch, but this was „improved“ to 2 hour training two times a day. We slept in boarding school, it was good way how to remind

24.5.2004 / XV. Sonkal sportcamp

Informations and photo material from last Sonkal"s camp

On Friday (21st May) Sonkal convoy, formed by one bus and 3 cars left Černý Most driving at Česká Lípa. Venue of our next, 15th in Sonkal’s history, training camp was sport area in Zákupy near to Česká Lípa. Our trainers had done a control of accommodation and place quality, final test – our stay here – showed both advantages and disadvantages of this new location. Accommodation was booked in plain, but absolutely accurate rooms. The only disadvantage was the lack of space in some of them, where we had to add beds. We ate in local school canteen and for some „tape

22.3.2004 / Juniors and seniors national team camp

Degree tests for I. and II. dan by members of Czech national team

Degree tests for I. and II. Dan were part of Czech national team’s training camp held in Hrdoňov near lake Lipno during this weekend. We had 3 girls (Bára Sýkorová, Linda Deutschová and Lucka Kolmanová) trying to pass I. Dan tests in total number 18 appliers for I. Dan and 2 for II. Dan. We were here to take some photos, so check it in photo gallery, unfortunately our camera was out of order during II. Dan test, and so

2.2.2004 / 2003 overall report

Final report for 2003

With the beginning of the year 2004 let us summarize the most important events for Sonkal Taekwon-do school, that happened during year 2003. 1. Sport achievements: Our competitors took part in whole Czech national championship series and other competitions organized by Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation during last year. New part in plan of competitions was international Czech Open 2003 tournament, organized by Sonkal in cooperation with Czech Taekwon-do ITF Fedaration. During the end of sport season, our