On the 20th of December 2014, in a small Central Bohemian town Strančice (near capital Prague), there was organized a national seminar ČNUT led by the world legend - master Jerzy Jedut, VII. Dan (general secretary, a member of AETF Technical committee and coach of the Polish national team).

A great place for this event was kindly provided by local elementary school Strančice, that’s why we would like to thank this way to Mgr.Kateřina Schejbalová, school director and other supporters for their help during the day and well prepared training hall. Our thanks belongs also to the partner of this event – company Hayashi, representing the TOP TEN brand in Czech Republic and delivering also other martial art and self-defense products. A huge appreciation belongs also to Berchtold castle management,that helped with accommodation for our guest and provided a great conference hall for follow up meetings, incl. refreshment.

The seminar hosted in total 40 participants (particularly trainers) from the Czech National Union of Taekwon-Do and Czech Taekwon-Do Association. However, attended also Taekwon-Do schools Tong-Il České Budějovice, Sonkal Prague, Ge- Baek, Mladá Boleslav, Strančice, Benátky nad Jizerou, Příbram, Sparring Kunice, Velké Popovice and Čerčany.

The seminar began with a short intro, followed by non-traditional heating and stretching exercises, immediately catching all participating trainers. After a proper heating, the rest of the morning was devoted to patterns from Chon-Ji to Choong-Moo, together with basic techniques from these tulls.

The afternoon part of the day started with several games for body heating again, followed by less conventional practices of sport techniques and then continued the technical block of patterns for two separated groups of colorful and black belts. At the end of the seminar there were shortly refreshed possible ways of turnings and overall stepping. At the end of the valuable day Master Jedut received a present – small plush toy “Moll in dobok” and gingerbread ČNUT from close production of cakes in Mnichovice.

 

The latest part of the seminar was planned for Dan grading. Master provided a short time to warm up and inaugurated a nine contestants for black belt degrees. Dan grading lasted nearly three hours, what indicates how demanding the examination was for all participants. Finally, all candidates successfully passed and we warmly congratulate on their promotion hereby.

To the I. Dan have been promoted:
Mr. Pavel Barhoň, Miss Lucie Bohatá and Miss Sára Podskalníková.

To the II. Dan was promoted:
Mr. Jiří Holan.

To III. Dan were promoted:
Mr. Jan Růžička and Mr. Michal Zemanec.

To the IV. Dan were promoted and the title of International instructor obtained:
Mr. Jaroslav Urbánek, Mr. Tomas Mácha and Mrs. Lenka Kolofíková.

After the exams has left only to say “thank you” to all attendees for participation and to organizers for their caring treatment. Representatives of ČNUTschools were finally invited to a gala dinner with master Jedut, where all could discuss learnings and share feelings from the day. Topics like long term vision of ČNUT and next training strategy were coved also and timing for next seminar has been preliminarily scheduled to Q2-3 2015, exact date to be specified soon.

For January there is also scheduled a regional seminar, where the main new learnings are supposed to be applied to work of the regions and schools. For the first time this year, together with this event there’s planned also a joint training of wider representation and will commence a preparation for the World Championships, which takes place in May 2015 in Jesolo, Italy.

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