Posts Tagged ‘gongfu’

真功夫 Über traditionelles Training im Gongfu

Gongfu ist ähnlich dem Bildungsweg, den wir alle von der Schule aus her kennen. Man geht erst zur Grundschule, dann kommt man in die Unterstufe, Mittelstufe, Oberstufe und letztendlich in die Uni zum Studium. Für manche reicht ein gewisser Bildungsstand, manche gehen jedoch noch darüber hinaus und promovieren oder habilitieren sogar. Es gibt Leute [...]

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Qingdao Learnings

I’m back from Qingdao and because of the cold I caught these days, finally have time to write a little something (pictures are already up in the gallery Qingdao 09. My trip was really nice, most of the time I lived with my Shi Bo (Gongfu uncle) Yu Bin, who’s now proud father of [...]

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We’ll miss you Mike…

Mike Martello was a great friend, a teacher and mentor to so many of us. On June 2nd 2009 he passed away doing what he loved to do: teaching martial arts. He devoted his life to bringing at least a little piece of the vast amount of experience and skill he had attained to everyone [...]

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Scent of Iran

I went out of the house, walking through the sun I smelled something familiar. It reminded me of spring in Teheran. There’s lots of similarities between Teheran and Beijing. Not only the masses, traffic and polution, but there’s the dry weather, workers watering the greens and flowers in spring and lots of small details that [...]

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