On the Sunday 11th of December 2016 there was black belt testing taking place after the Saturday national seminar. For my taste the attendance was really plentiful since there were 27 aspirants to being testing for higher degree. Among them was one applicant for the 4th degree, two for the 3rd degree and the rest was divided approximately one half for the 1st degree and one half for the 2nd degree. There were four people from our school who were trying to gain higher black belt degree. Míra Novák was tested for the 1st degree, Pavel Zavadil and Jan Dvořáček for the 2nd degree and Pavel

Also this year we accepted the invitation from the Czech national union to attend its traditional national seminar under the lead of Master Jerzy Jedut from Poland. This time very numerous group of people from our school came to Strančice to enjoy two very hard training days. As well as the year before Saturday was aimed to the colour belts trainees and Sunday for the black belts only. So from the Saturday program could Ondra Faltin learn the English word “longer” (concerning his stances) and be also taught about more valuable corrections. The Saturday program was ended by mirror patte

Taekwon-do has many meanings. It brings stamina, strenght, fun, ability to defend yourself. Some enjoys winning medals, learning that there is prize for effort. Some find themselves in teaching and influencing others. And as time goes these meanings are changing and intertwining. And beside these there are social aspects of Taekwon-do. Meeting with my old Taekwon-do friends from time we were in talented youth organization together (15+ years ago) brought me to writing this essay. It was great evening, we met after years, but there were still what to talk about. Of course old Taekwon-do stor

We made two videos from Sonkal's summer camp - competition in step sparring & action scenarios. You can download or watch online :)

Today we are going on with fifth part of our summer camp which is also the last but one. The photo gallery contains some shots of Friday and Saturday trainings. In this evening you can look forward to seeing the last load of pictures about Sunday colour belts testing and training.

We are still staying in Male Svatonovice and train harly so we are getting better and better. Today we made new photo set with 200 pictures from training sessions and other activities from Monday till Wednesday. Our idea is bring more photos tonight, stay tuned! :)

End of schoolyear is coming and also the end of training season 2015/2016. Kids and taekwondists will have two-month-long holiday. But don’t worry, during summer holidays we will have trainings in Prague and at the end of August we will head to Male Svatonovice for summer camp to prepare for new training season. And what about you? Will you come with us? You can choose if to dawdle or have 9 days full of Taekwon-do. Everyone from white to black belt can attend this camp. Content of training will be divided according to belt and age.

The ending of International seminar in České Budějovice belonged traditionally to final testing for higher degrees of black belts. Contrary to accustomed traditions this time were tested much more applicants for higher degrees than those for first and second degrees. There were only two candidates for first degree of black belt, one of whom was our trainee Herbert Kindl. He showed very good performance which testing committee led by Grandmaster Hwang Ho-Yong awarded for 68 points. Applicant for second black belt degree was only one – Jiří Novák. He was still in form from Europe c

Less than three weeks remain till international seminar in Czech Budweiss. Return of GM Hwang Ho-yong is connected with this seminar. GM should return to Czech Republic after his several-months-long stay in Korea and we can look forward to good amount of practice and detailed information about techniques. International seminar is organized by Czech ITF Federation in cooperation with GM Hwang and every year with international attendance. This seminar is not only a source of i

Translation will be done later, now check photos from our three days stay in Malé Svatoňovice.