Greetings

I am honored to fill the request of Sasok Sport Club: I am greeting every enquirer, who visited the webpage of the „Eagles Cup”, our Taekwon-do and other martial arts practitioners, masters and students, competitors and friends of sport also.

The Sasok from Budapest have put a mark on the Taekwon-do life of Hungary – not only with their continuous successes at competitions but with the role of organizing high quality Taekwon-do competitions in the recent years. Since 2010 they’ve had a very high standard which starts a new chapter in the life of Sasok: they started to organize an international competition called „Eagles Cup”. Hopefully, this great initiation – which is encouraged by our Federation and also by me to the utmost – will become a tradition over the coming years. We would like Eagles Cup to mean a determinative experience for European Taekwon-do practitioners and also a recurring event in the international competition calendar.

Our Federation organized the official European Taekwon-do Championship in Budapest last time in 1984 and also ITF Taekwon-do World Championship in the ex-Budapest Sports Hall in 1988, which may have been the most success one of all time. Many-many years have gone by since then and our enthusiasm and impulse to do is unbroken although our opportunities and conditions are changed. In according to our unconcealed long-term targets and ideas we could use the experiences of the „Eagles Cup” to arrive to a new point when the Hungarian Federation will be ready to organize an European or a Worldwide Championship again.

In the name of our Federation I would like to say thanks to Gábor Szalay V. Dan and Csaba Békássy IV. Dan international instructors, creators and main directors of Eagles Cup for their exemplary work. Special thanks to Sasok Sport Club for international popularization of the competition side of ITF Taekwon-do.

I wish productive competing and successful performing to all of the participants of Eagles Cup and good cheering and nice time to audience of this competition.

 

Budapest, September 2011

 

László Harmat VIII. Dan, president

Hungarian ITF Taekwon-do Federation