We represent to you one of the most successful sporting Karate clubs in the Czech Republic. The sporting club was established in 1993, however it has been more or less a certain activity continuation of the same Karate masters, who took part, in the leadership of the original clubs Karate TJ Uhelné Sklady and TJ Pankrác practically since 1982, so before the SK Kesl Ryu establishment.

A certainty of the correct way in our direction seems to be a heritage of the greatest Karatist in the modern Karate Gichin Funakoshi that we are trying to understand and transfer to Karatists of our club. It demonstrates the recruitment system of the sporting club, which does not perform any special choice of beginners. Everybody may apply and train. After a certain period, when participants have been classified into efficiency groups, also the non-talent individuals may continue in the training as long as they interested in it. There are not only Karate and self-defence drills but also a general training in complete development of physical conditions among young people using the recent knowledge of sporting training, diet and s.o.

Differentiating among members and successes
The sporting club deals with the sport style of Karate on the highest level and it seems to be not accidentally one of the most successful Karate clubs in the Republic. In fact the most of our members successfully representing the Czech Republic in the best national and international competitions are the Prague as well as the Republic champions in the group “A”. The sporting club has been arranged winter and summer training meetings for several years not only for the SK Kesl Ryu members, but also for other persons interested from the whole Czech Republic. A great popularity has also gained the regular every year training meetings in Italy. The SK Kesl Ryu Shotokan has about 400 members now. The members differentiating into the appropriate groups is the following: “D” - recruitment, beginners; “C” – advanced participants possessing a lower teaching technical grade; “B” – participants possessing a higher teaching belt grade and competitors for lower competitions from the quality point of view; “A” – competitors possessing a higher belt grade, representatives of the sporting club in the first-quality national and international competitions, members of the state representation and s.o.

Direction of the SK sporting club, apart from its sporting successes, is not only the physical training of the best sportsmen in the Republic. The main mission is to help parents in the education of their children in the sense of optimal free time exploitation directed to the sport but also for collective respect, discipline and other properties necessary in the first-quality development of personality. Therefore it is the distinguishing into the groups of the our SC, in which they have the opportunity to permanently train also those, who are without chances to reach higher sporting goals. The same attention is payed to them as to the best competitors.

Karatists – competitors take part not only in all competitions of all age categories in the Republic, but regularly in international Karate tournaments in Italy, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, Poland and s.o. Thanks to some CR champions the SC possesses a higher number of representatives taking part in peak international competitions in majority of European countries including EC and WC.