Another year is over and Master Jerzy Jedut, VIII. Dan, accepted our invitation to lead our National seminar for the third time. The seminar lasted two days and it had more than 50 participants.

Seminar started with funny warm-ups and then we start with fundamental movements. Techniques were gradually harder and harder as we went through single tulls. Training was variegated by some drills of techniques useful for competitions of sparring.

After very hard first day we set out with Master Jedut to sightseeing and taking some photos to Prague. Master was interested in czech speciality named „Trdelník“, in english named „Chimney cake“. The czech name is for foreigners very hard to say, as same as for Master Jedut. We have visited historical places as „Dusty Gate“, „Oldtown Square“, „Charles Bridge“, „National Theatre“ and „Wenceslas Square“. After we have returned from Prague we went to dinner to nice restaurant on palace Berchtold. During the dinner was also short meeting with headquarters of Czech National Taekwon-Do Union.

Second training day there were less people because it was dedicated to higher grades, especially for black belts, but there were also some red belt holder who are preparing for gradings. But in the afternoon stayed only black belts, because we did higher tulls till Sam-Il. I have to mention „instant“ of workout before our loved Juche. Master demonstrate us that side kick is trully not easy technique and that there is about million ways how to strength needed muscles.

After last tull we could only bow and say goodbye to our outstanding guest. Also this year we have prepared a small gift for Master Jedut – small chocolates with photos of czech well-knowned and important places, calendar CzNTU for year 2017 and original glass pint with sandblasted logo of CzNTU.

We would like to thank to all participants for nice weekend with Taekwon-Do. Also huge thanks are for Elementary school Strančice, which let us use their nice sporthall and our sponsor MV Print who had produced calendars of CzNTU for each participant of seminar.

Kind Regards,
Robert Pokorný
Communications committee CzNTU