In the middle of June our competitors were waiting for the last competition of the spring part of the racing season. It was the traditional meeting of the Talented Youth Centres in Brno. Thanks to the previous weigh-in we could go to the south of Moravia only on Saturday morning. The journey along the main transit route was very brisk and without any complications. Sonkal was represented by 5 competitors in STM Prague II and their results were very good and so were the performances! For a summary of the results see the achievements section. Photos are available all

This year's Czech Republic Color Belt Championships took place at the Nymburk Sports Center on the weekend of May 10-12. Sonkal was represented by less than twenty competitors who could gain interesting experience without the presence of black belts in sparring (and also other disciplines). Saturday traditionally belonged to the juniors and adults, while Sunday belonged exclusively to the juniors. Saturday's medal haul was completed by Šárka Třísková, who won the title of the most successful senior. On Sunday, Jan Sekera (younger juniors) and Anežka Bičíková (older junior) won simi

I won't answer because the competitors, coaches, judges and parents have to say. However, I will tell you some interesting facts and observations. It was definitely more on time this year as there was no weigh-in and the morning meetings were very brisk. After 10am, 286 competitors from 25 schools lined up for the roll call ceremony and soon everything was underway on the traditional 6 tatami. Actually there could have been seven for most of the day as the number of judges was great. Instead of moving the tatami's we created a seventh corps of judges and rotated them between rings for any brea

This year's European Championships will be hosted by the seaside city of Koper in Slovenia. The European Championships return to Slovenia after 11 years and will be hosted for the first time by Koper from 15-22 April. The actual competition will start on Wednesday 17 April and end on Sunday 21 April. The Czech national team is sending a very large team which will include seven members of Sonkal. Honza Dvořáček will make his European debut, competing among the veterans. For the others it is already a repeated participation. Jirka and Ondra Faltins will try to emulate last year's golden su

On Saturday 10th February the new season of Sonkal competition started with the 1st round of the Czech Taekwon-do ITF Cup. Both rounds of the Cups offer very good opportunities for participants to test their form before the higher types of competitions, especially thanks to the system of competing against each other. Our starting list was slightly affected by the ongoing spring break in the capital city, but still our team was the most numerous. Several of our charges tried their first start in the older age group and it was a good test for them with lots of new experiences. Eventually 2