The club was founded in 2008. The martial styles practiced in the club are Freestyle Kickboxing, Muay Thai and Kyokushin Karate. Shin-Do Buzau Sports Club is affiliated to the Romanian Freestyle Kickboxing Federation (FRKF), under whose umbrella it has participated in numerous national and international sports competitions. Anyone interested in initiation, maintenance and performance with a minimum age of 4 years can join the club.

“The pandemic has affected us all in a negative way. In the first phase we were forced to stay indoors. In these conditions, athletes were forced to do physical training in isolation. Technical and tactical training was interrupted. Once the restrictions were relaxed, we started to do outdoor training.

The lack of continuity in training was immediately apparent. The competitions were interrupted. This affected us because our goal was to participate in the European Championship and the World Championship. We resumed training and slowly we recovered. But we saw the difference in training. Physical capacity decreased, technique started to be forgotten, reflexes decreased, some of the athletes stopped coming. New ones came. Outdoor training, although known to do good, was not to the liking of some parents, who wanted to return to the gym.

At the first regular competition with restrictions, it was seen how the general condition of the athletes was negatively influenced. The weather conditions influenced the outdoor training. The children did not show up due to rain and cold. Wearing masks negatively influenced the athletes as they wore flies during school time as well. There were also attempts to train online but it didn’t work.”

Project partners: Scout Society (Romania), Türkiye Okul Sporları Federasyonu (Turkey), Futbolo mokykla klubas Lituanica (Lithuania), BK-95 (Latvia)

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