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真功夫 Über traditionelles Training im Gongfu
Dec 23rd
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!






