During Saturday and Sunday 11.-12.11., few members of Sonkal attended almost traditional Polish drill with lots of interesting exercises. After a year, we accepted invitation from Czech National Union of TKD to Strančice, where 4. national seminar with master Jerzy Jedut took place. The goal of the seminar, as in previous years, was improvment of basic techniques and patterns. At the beginning of training units, new or improved interesting exercises were shown. And because master Jedut wanted not only our brains to be tired, but alsou our bodies, he put some exercises olso to the middle of tr

Article mention few notes about scientific article : „A biomechanical analysis of the roundhouse kicking technique of expert practitioners: A comparison between the martial arts disciplines of Muay Thai, Karate, and Taekwondo„ Full text available here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182645 Martin Svitek, IV. Dan

Even this year the second half of August belongs to traditional visit of Malé Svatoňovice. Local site of Academy of security and law has been our refuge since the year 2003. This year is very specific for our school – this summer camp is breaking the records in the number of not only all participants but also in the number of black belts. See the photos of first couple of days of our staying in the birthplace of famous Czech writer Karel Čapek.

It´s not grades of school report even though most of school pupils would take them with by fistfuls. But they are given technical degrees DAN, black belts, if you please. At the end of international seminar trio of Sonkal people – Adam Pastorek, Lukáš Veverka, Tereza Štekerová – stepped before committee of Czech Taekwon-Do Federation (Grandmaster Hwang Ho Yong, Master Rostislav Kaňka, Master Martin Zámečník and Sabom Milan Prokeš) accompanied by Master Wayne Brown (Great Britain) and Master Chris Eickenhorst (Netherland). All three of them successively showed of which quality

Year passed quickly and I´ve visited camp of Pardubice tkd school again. This time with whole family (as it is sweet stay there for everyone) and also with one of the most experienced student of Sonkal - Pavel Šnábl, III. Dan. Weather looked like autumn this time, so my beloved garden trainings were substituted by sweeping dusty gym with our toboks. But as we are indomitable we at least enjoyed Satruday fire more and Sunday better weather was gift and not source of heatstroke as normally. Radek wanted to focus on reverse turning kick, but changed his mind and we trained suroh (s

At the end of January our colour-belts testing took place in Černý Most. Very strong autumn recruitment in our all three gyms reflected the number of the participants of the testing. If I am not mistaken in was the highest amount of tested people in the history of our school. Congratulations to everyone and we wish you another portion of joy during your Taekwon-Do practicing!