The frosty morning of 11th January attracted a huge number of people from the Czech Taekwon-do ITF Federation to the hall of Sportcentrum in Brandýs nad Labem. The clear motivation was to win participation in the European Championships in the Estonian capital Tallinn. Sonkal had its representatives there as well. Some of them wanted to add more starts to the ones they had already won at the Czech Republic Championships in November. Others wanted to win the participation as such. Both the morning and afternoon training sessions were divided into individual competition groups so that they co

This year's preparation for the European Championships in Tallinn is very different from previous years, but it is even more varied. At the same time, it shows the interest and commitment of the individuals to the team and national coaches. Another part of the preparation were two preparatory seminars under the guidance of the head coach of the repetition Jan Mracek (VI. dan) and the junior coach Ales Vyzral (V. dan). The training sessions took place at the GBHS training centre in Beztahovo on Saturday 22 March. Both blocks were attended by over 60 male and female taekwondo players from a

The second Saturday of March belonged to an international seminar with Katya Solovey from Ukraine. Katya is a multiple world champion in taekwondo and also in kick boxing. We took the opportunity to participate in this seminar and 11 of our members left early in the morning from Prague to Hana (Moravia). The seminar was divided into three training blocks and of course the whole seminar was focused on sparring. Katya had two assistants with her - Viktoria Sokolovska took care of the translation into English and Dasha Korolovych was in the role of an excellent sparring partner to perform all