Porąbka 2017

108 participants and 9 staff members had the opportunity to experience this during the Taekwon-do Summer Camp, which took place from 8–20 August 2017 at the Children’s Holiday Home in Porąbka.

The camp was attended by athletes from Krakowskie Centrum Taekwon-do, supported by groups from Iława, Wieliczka, Gdów, Krapkowice and Gogolin. The 12 days of camp were filled with a busy programme.

Three training sessions a day were planned, and that is exactly what took place. Before breakfast there were patterns, before noon kicking practice, and before dinner sparring. After dinner and the mini disco, coach Klaudia led additional hip-hop dance classes.

There were also plenty of other events. Taking advantage of the centre’s facilities, the participants played football and held a table tennis tournament. Art and literary competitions were organised. The initiation ceremony for our new campers took a particularly interesting form—it took place at 12:30… at night!

The first of the two planned trips was an outing to the Forest Park of Surprises in Ustroń. There, visitors could admire fallow deer, roe deer, goats and young deer walking among them, as well as wild boar and bison separated by railings. The greatest attraction was the presentations and flight demonstrations of owls and birds of prey: the white-tailed eagle, goshawk and buzzard.

When the weather became more stable, our entire group went to the swimming pool in Andrychów. The brand-new facility, in its open-air area, offered a 50-metre pool, a huge recreational pool, a paddling pool, a waterslide, a beach volleyball court and green space.

The camp ended with an examination for student grades, followed by a campfire with sausage roasting. Most importantly for the organiser and, above all, the participants, despite such a huge number of people, there was never once a need to visit a healthcare facility.

To sum up, Porąbka was great. We will return there next year in the second half of August.