Newsletter Newsletter 3/2007 Czech Best of the Best 2007

The most prestigious and awaited competition of the Czech National Taekwon-Do Union Best of the Best has once again been hosted by the city of Ricany. This year it was for the fourth time and we could give a warm welcome to 160 competitors from four countries - Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Latvia. Due to a generous support from the city of Ricany and all other sponsors, we were able to move the competition yet another step further. For the competitors from 15 clubs we had prepared new prices, new competition setup, new gifts from sponsors and rich accompanying program.

The competition was declared open at 10 AM by the Major of City of Ricany, Ing. Adriena Mrazova. The first two hours have seen all the pattern categories, from children to seniors and after the lunch the competition continued with model sparring and special techniques and also the prestigious sparring category was held on the central ring.

Most of the bouts showcased nearly equal performance from both competitors and so we could see great fights not only in the categories of experienced senior fighters, but also in the children and junior categories. As by the rule, we could see great performance by the members of the National Team - David Stein, Pavel Kupr, Hana Krizova and Michal Novak. Individual categories were interleaved with accompanying program of dancing, aerobic and freestyle. Thanks to members of the Dance Studio of Edita Broukalova the competitors had a chance to see great performance by great girls and touch the spirit of Turkey at the belly dance performance by Scarletta Jelinkova. A great applause rewarded great aerobic performance in the style of "Sister Act" movie by Cragi Group from Usti nad Labem.

A number of VIP persons from the social life not only from our city came to participate on this great event. This year the medal awarding was performed by Josef Mlady and the founder of Taekwon-Do in Czech Republic Miroslav Galbac and all of them had an opportunity to meet at a special VIP meeting in Point Club.

The winner of the Best of the Best Pattern Category for this year was Vladimir Belhac from So San Znojmo who took over the trophy from last year winner Hana Krizova and the year-before winner Michal Machota. The Best of the Best Sparring without weight limits was for the third time in row dominated by the Bosnian professional champion Agim "Dino" Murtic. However this year he had formidable opponents in David Mondschein - the winner of the +80 sparring category, Jakub Novotny - the coach of Boxing Club Ricany, Jan Gavura who took the silver and also other competitor from Czech and Latvia did a great job. The competition was closed at 8 PM and from 9.30 PM all the competitors, coaches and partners met on an after party in SportBar Riviera, where the owner Jaroslav Wunch prepared a generous snack.

We strongly believe that next year we will achieve at least as good and great competition as we had this year and we hope in even more competitors. We also look forward to the support of our traditional partner - the County of Central Bohemia. In the rich history of this competition he have welcomed the competitors from Austria, Slovenia, India, Latvia, Croatia, Ukraine and Algeria. Each year we have more and more competitors and also the setup is more and more elaborate. The spirit of this competition is the meeting of the best of the best competitors and we believe we have fulfilled this goal. Successful businessmen, celebrities and top-quality competitors - that is the spirit of Best of the Best and we have once again showcased we are on the top.

We would like to sincerely thank to the City of Ricany and County of Central Bohemia for giving us the chance to run the International Best of the Best Championship for the fourth time.

Watch the official web site of the Championship www.championship.estranky.cz.