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真功夫 Über traditionelles Training im Gongfu
Dec 23rd
Xue Wu Zhi Jing
Deshalb liegt es an den Lehrern, auf allen Stufen, die Schüler auf die nächste Stufe vorzubereiten. Ihre Zeit nicht zu verschwenden, sondern ihnen möglichst sinnvoll und effektiv den Weg zu gutem Gongfu zu weisen. Doch genauso hängt es auch am Schüler sich über das gelernte Gedanken zu machen, gewissenhaft und fleißig zu trainieren und nicht seine Zeit (aber auch die seines Lehrers) zu verschwenden. Es ist also wichtig, dass beide, sowohl Lehrer als auch Schüler mit der richtigen Mentalität an das Gongfu Training herantreten. Was ist nun eine geeignete Mentalität? More >
Qingdao Learnings
Nov 21st
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 a cute son. Our days were mostly very healthy waking up a t 6am for training, breakfast, relaxing/training, lunch, working, dinner, long talks about Gongfu and going to bed early at 10pm. Everyday I would learn a lot, but not forms (not counting the new Bashi (8 stances) we have in our family), but the very basics of energy and fighting. My notes for each day would be longer than they’ve been in years, learning about the small details and some traditional training methods of our family, but also clarifications of our history and theories. Even found out why our Beng Bu differs so much from other families.
Yu Bin gave me a task, which concluded writing an article about how traditional Gongfu (especially Tanglang Quan) should be trained and I’m happy to tell you, the first draft is already finished. For now it’s in German and will be posted here on this blog, but I’ll be working on a translation as soon as I finalize the German one.
We also talked about how to get the abstract theory and basics that are inherent to Tanglang Quan more clarified not just for students in our family, but for everyone out there. So (hopefully) starting soon, we’ll post more and more translations and explanations of the basic theories like 12 keywords, 5 principles, 7 long 8 short, 12 soft 8 hard on the website of the Wan Fu Qingdao School in the philosophy section (under training). Some are already online – thanks goes to Yu Bin’s Tudi Felix, who besides his job, managed to translate all those for the website. For now it’ll be just these bits and pieces, but maybe they’ll find their way into a book of sorts, but keep in mind all of these won’t make you a better practitioner, a good teacher and hard work does!
We’ll miss you Mike…
Jun 4th
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 open enough to accept it.
The world has lost a great man, but he won’t be forgotten as he’ll live on in everyone of us, who were lucky enough to know him.
Also visit Jake’s blog for lots of memories and links to tributes to Mike.
There’s a new site dedicated to Mike at http://mikemartello.com/
Scent of Iran
Apr 27th
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 kind of subconciously make me like this city even more. Not many people see these simliarities, but even chinese and persian culture have lots of things in common. Is Beijing maybe the Teheran I always wanted?
It’s been more than 5 weeks since I moved here and I know it’s also been nearly a month since my last real post on this site. We took lots of pictures, but most of them are inside of restaurants. Seems like the only thing we’re doing these days is working, sleeping and – on weekends – watching movies and trying out nice food places – doesn’t sound very interesting, but it’s been relaxing and fun. I’ve also been cooking a bit more these days.
As for gongfu, it kind of looks like my blog activity. First I was busy, then I was lazy and now I got problems with my wrist, but I’m planning on definitely starting training in May! – I promise 
