Sonkal - Taekwon-Do ITF

6.12.2013 / Třeboň Open - youth, junior and senior (tul, matsogi, t-ki & wirok) info pack & application form

On Friday 29th of November we had meeting in front of sports hall in Třeboň at 5 p.m. We had registration there and then we went to accommodate ourselves. We were accommodated at fishing school's dormitory. Then we went back to have a dinner in restaurant "Rybí bašta". I didn't have dinner there so I can't tell how was the food. For many of our competitors, good dinner is ground stone of success on a competition. After dinner we went to the hall to prepare rings and other equipment. There was not a lot of us but still we finished it quickly and we could go back to the dormitory. Next da

2.12.2013 / Třeboň Open - youth, junior and senior (tul, matsogi, t-ki & wirok) info pack & application form

How we did not catch a carp

We took part in Třeboň Open for the fifth time in a row. We left Prague on last Friday of this year´s November. We were really fast thank to new part of highway opened without traffic jams we were used to in the past. As we leave highway E55 we are looking forward to see famous south bohemian ponds, but all of them are realesed - fishless :o) So no opportunity to catch a carp so we focus on catching some medals in Třeboň sport hall on tournament organized by Won-Hyo, Sonkal and Tong-Il tkd schools. Registration goes smoothly and we soon know that there is more than 150 competitors fro

28.11.2013 / Třeboň Open - youth, junior and senior (tul, matsogi, t-ki & wirok) info pack & application form

Třeboň Open

Invitation for event Třeboň Open. Articles from event itself are already available, so no translation is needed ;o)

20.11.2013 / Czech national Championship

First day in Kuba´s view

I got chance to participate in Czech national championship as organizer for my second time. It is interesting job as you see competition from different point of view. I think noone else know how many things had to be prepared, repaired and found. On Friday, first day of competition, we went to bed after midnight as tablet couldn´t be find, trophies were mostly broken and lot of other work is prepared for team of 4 people led by Jan Kratochvíl. And on Saturday we had to wake up at 7 AM, take breakfast and work again. It was interesting day full of hard long work (from 8 AM to 9 PM). But I

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17.11.2013 / Czech national Championship

Second day of tournament

Last day of Czech national championship was bright and sunny (what a time to be spent in a hall!). Senior elite who compete on the last day went for breakfast to stuck their stomachs and discredit their coming appearances. Competition started at 8:30 with team patterns. We got our first Sonkal gold of the day in female senior team. Our boys also did well loosing closely in final. Male juniors had to finish their special techniques from Saturday. Individual patterns started after with first two hopes in ....us :o) After hard matches (I. Dan category) Kristýna got gold and Veronika bronze. Our

16.11.2013 / Czech national Championship

10.11.2013 / Czech national Championship

Sonkal won Best school of national championship

Czech National championship took place in Nymburk 8-10. November 2013. Sonkal brought 27 competitors. Our Tereza Štekerová and Michaela Bártů (female junior B and female kid) got awarded as the Czech national Champions. Our seniors added few medals on Sunday what meant victory of Sonkal in overall and we became the most succesful Taekwon-do school of 2013. Photos, videos and articles are already available.

3.11.2013 / 2nd national competition of CYT

CYT competition in Ostrava

Second round of national CYT competition took place in Ostrava on 19th and 20th of October. Both training and competition were held in Bonver Arena. This sports hall looked almost like a ruin from the outside, but in the inside it met all requirements needed for TKD competition. On the other hand, we were accommodated in 4* hotel Park Inn. Saturday's training led by CTY was aimed for fake hits and other stuff that look good on exhibitions. 150 participants enjoyed it very well. After this training there was another one for instructors and assistants and its theme was padding. This training

6.9.2013 / Summer traning camp

Great Summer Sonkal Camp 2013

At Friday 23rd of August it came again. Our summer camp that we had been looking forward to started. After loading tatami, board holders, balls, pads and all other equipment at about nine o’clock in the morning we headed by bus to our favourite location, to Malé Svatoňovice. There we met people who came there alone and also Radek Kolář, the instructor of Pardubice TKD school. It was beautiful weather the day we came so we started our first training on fresh mountain air. The training on nearby concrete field began with knowledge games and then colour belts were divided into groups and

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16.8.2013 / Summer traning camp

Holidays are just around the corner and TKD summer camp around the next one

Next school year is going to end and I believe that you all have improved your skills and knowledge of our beautiful martial art which General Choi Hong-hi had left to us. To start a new season 2013/2014 properly, we’re going to need intensive preparation. And this preparation is our traditional summer camp in Male Svatonovice. This year, 10 days full of Taekwon-do are waiting for us. What can we look forward to? - at least two trainings a day - evening training reserved for learning new patterns, step sparring and also for competitions - during the camp there is more than 20 trainin

17.7.2013 / 18th World Adult Championship

Photos from Sofia

Sonkal's photo reportage form 18th World Adult Championship is finished. You can see 1325 photos from whole stay in Sofia. At the end of next week you can enjoy for some interesting videos.

16.7.2013 / 18th World Adult Championship

10.6.2013 / 2nd round of Czech national league 2012-2013

First half of competition season behind us

We got together small group of our students to compete in final round of national league which is organized by the other federation in Czech republic, so by Taekwondo Union. Competition took place in central Bohemian Pečky. Our students did great and got plenty of medals not only in patterns, but also in special techniques and sparring. We used this event as testing for new team members, because it was possible to compete in more categories and with lower belts than on our events. Tereza štekerová needs to be mentioned as I named her Boston killer, not being afraid of getting punched an

28.5.2013 / Sonkal Open

point of view of Franta Sakař

This event is held every year and for me it is quite special because our Sonkal is organizing it. It was great adventage that everyone fought everyone and that you were allowed to compete both in higher belt and age category. It was good as you was able to get more medals. All was great. Athmosphere was nice what I appreciate the most during tournaments. Noone argued anad everyone was helping each other. I have to say that Sonkal was really succesful. Our Tomáš Vodička, Jana Kovářová and Jiří Huml got the most succesful c

27.5.2013 / Sonkal Open

Crowd of competitors and nice successes

Czech Taekwon-do federation competition of first half of year were finished by meeting of talented youth organization in Nymburk. Sonkal with history of organizing Prague local competition for more than 10 years used again nice hall in Petřiny to organize this year´s Sonkal Open. More than 125 competitors from 9 schools took part - Dan-Gun, GBHS, Chon-Ji, Kerberos, Kwang Myong, Panter, Pardubice, Silla and home Sonkal. We are thankful to 4 referees from Tong-Il České Budějovice (South Bohemia) who travelled to Prague from ea

16.5.2013 / Sonkal Open

12.5.2013 / 19th Junior, 28th Senior, 5th Veteran & 3rd Youth European Championships

European championship is done

European championship was preceded by long and hard preparation on training camps with national team. This year´s Euro was not my first, but was the first in this ITF. Many people asked me about difference between european championship in two ITF I was member of. But I have to say there are just details in rules, otherwise you still have two legs and arms and have to train hard to succeed. We met on Monday really early morning in Prague Chodov, travelling to South Bohemia to get rest of team for Slovenia. Trip was pretty smooth thank to movies. I was looking forward to weighing because I d

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9.5.2013 / 1. meeting of CYT

Winning row of our talented youths continues

This kind of event is organized every year (two times a year - translator) and takes place in other destination each time (not really :o)- translator). Two years ago it was in Frýdek Místek, last year in Brno and this year in Nymburk. But talented youth organizations meeting is not only about competing and learning from it, but also about meeting taekwondists from other parts of republic and make new friendships. The event took 2 weekend days, Saturday was dedicated to programme prepared by different instructors based on making better social relations through fun :o) Games and taekwondo

21.4.2013 / 19th Junior, 28th Senior, 5th Veteran & 3rd Youth European Championships

17.4.2013 / Nitra Cup (info pack a přihláška)

Another jurney to the East - Nitra Cup 2013

We travelled again to Nitra, 13 Sonkal competitors - Libor, Ali, Terka and Verča (alias cobra and cobra :oD), Míša, Lenka, Jirka, Herbert and three of us competing for czech national team -Jirka Huml, Jana and Vóďa :o). We three travelled from Chodov with rest of national team, stopping in Brno to get moravian part of the team. It was long trip so we spent time playing cards, loosers had to do some funny tasks, so everyone was trying hard. But you know, unlucky in games, lucky in love ;o) We arrived to Nitra at 5 P.M. meeting rest of Sonkal. I had to do my cards task during weighing

14.4.2013 / Czech Open (youth, juniors & adults) ( info pack & application form )

12.4.2013 / Czech Open (youth, juniors & adults) ( info pack & application form )

Biggest international event in Czech Republic

Czech republic´s biggest Taekwon-do ITF international event of this year - Czech Open. It took place in Nymburk April 6.-7. and was linked to number 10. It was 10th Czech Open and 10 countries took part in it. Czech Open is becoming respected event of European standard thank to diligent and hard work of Tournament committee of Czech Taekwondo-do ITF federation. We hope to keep rising standard in future years. Date of the event is scheduled in order to allow national team members to test their performance before European championship (this year 24.-28.April, Bled, Slovenia). How was t

27.3.2013 / Nitra Cup (info pack a přihláška)

Travelling East again

Another year had passed so we travelled East to compare our techniques with our frineds from Slovakia. Eight Sonkal members (and 3 more competing for national team) took part in Nitra cup. Medals hanging around necks of our fighters says everything. Check photos!

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21.3.2013 / Bohemia Championship

My first Bohemian chapionship with Sonkal

Sunday 10/3, Bohemian championship in Nymburk. We left Prague pretty early to have enough time to help prepare the hall and warm-up for the competition. Even preparing hall may be fun and we had nice time playing with draw cards for breaking. Sense of play in Sonkal is strong and self-control of our instructor Ondra si high :o) Me and Tomáš Vodička helped also with weighing - it was hard to decide who will weight girls and who boys, but finally we stuck in old-fashioned model, so I weighted girls. First matches started at about 1 P.M. and it was not KO system but everyone had match wit