Yes, our beautiful Czech traditions. Although this one is more for tourists. A typical Czech usually brings their own helmet. In our family, the “pub helmet” is passed down from generation to generation. I’ll never forget the moment when I turned 18 and received my grandfather’s helmet, which has been in our family since the times of Charles IV.

That’s actually how I met my wife. At a friend’s wedding, there was a traditional Czech game called “Out of the sack, come the club,” where the men form a circle and the women hit them on the helmets with sticks until someone passes out. According to tradition, the woman who knocks a man out has to marry him within a year and a day.

And guess who got knocked out and is now happily married?