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Erinnerung Karate Seminar und Training diese Woche / Reminder Karate Seminar and Practice this week

Hallo,

diese Woche ist das Wetter wieder normal, unsere Uhrzeiten sind normal,  nur das Training ist wie immer überdurchschnittlich toll.

Also wenn ich nicht noch nen Rappel kriege und am Wochenende zur 50 Jahresfeier der NAKF nach Boston fliege. Dann müsste Jan das Training am Samstag machen. Das ist aber auch toll.

Ansonsten nochmal eine Erinnerung an unser absolut geniales Karateseminar vom 4.-6. Mai in Stolzenhagen.Wir verbinden Weiches mit Hartem und lassen unsere Masse sprechen. Und lernen Heian Godan.

Lieben Gruß bis dahin!

Malte

 

 

Dear All, this week everything is back to normal the weather, the season and our practice times. Training is still incredibly excellent though.

As will be the Karate Seminar in Stolzenhagen May 4th to 6th. Don’t forget to sign up, soon.

 

Best regards and greetings!

 

Malte

 

Off we go into intense stillness!

Tomorrow,  we head to the mountains of Silesia for our intense stillness seminar.

We will be in the middle of the forest, surrounded by beech trees,  deer and rustling streams.

Our focus this year is the tension between archaic freedom of being and its mindful observation. We will combine the two to powerfully open up new life spaces for us.

Results ready for inspection next week,

Greetings from Bila Voda!

Malte

 

 

 

 

BNPP International Hackathon 2017 Berlin

This past weekend, Malte helped give spiritual underpinnings to the 2017 BNPP International Hackathon.  We led about 30 data engineers and researchers ans as many bank managers through inspiring group practices, meditation and individual meditative coaching sessions.

It looked hilarious at times. See the video.

 

 

The Spring Karate Seminar

Dear All,

by now we have all come back safely from our trip to the Silesian Mountains, where we held our Karate spring seminar this year. It turned out  magnificent. Raw. Light. Seductive. Tiring. Relaxing. And Instructive.

It was also a great adventure practically from beginning to end. In the morning of our arrival day I looked out of the window and saw this: 10 cm fluffy snow that had fallen overnight. It’s a mountaneous area after all..

Needless to say, we won’t be stopped in our tracks by such  minor obstacles. The first morning unit took place in the barn adjacent to the house. This is how it looks, when the morning light strams through the door:

We shook ourselves a bit and relaxed deeply.

While we doing that the sun was at work already, burning the snow,  turning the world green again. For our late morning unit, we stayed close to the house, streched throughly, found our way back into our stances and fit them into Heian Sandan.

The afternoon was much tougher. We climbed the Hutberg, up the steep border path along the ridge of the  mountain. Every step a kick and every breath a balance exercise. Up there we easily practiced on trees and kicked away some dead wood. The rain barely bothered us. It was all a bit dark though.

We sheltered under the attic late at night to make up for the cold afternoon. I didn’t take a watch. 2 hours of hand techniques sitting on the ground went by on the fly.

Quiet practice in the morning on the house meadow was glorious.

Off we went into the forest in the afternoon. High above the rushing, snow filled Weißach we dug into the forest ground with bare feet and closed eyes. We kicked the air, trees and each other. The blind samurai waded through the icy waters at the end and walked home past the remaining patchces of snow.

The afternoon brought a change of perspective. From the other flank of the valley, we saw the Owl Mountains praciticing Katas.

At night the stars twinkled on the night sky. We had keys fr the museum ground floor, but no one wanted to practice indoors.

The night sky above Weißwasser is both clear and warm. In Brandenburg it is very clear, too but cool, amost icy. Here, it was lovely. That made repeating Katas easy. The deer were very impressed.

Late the next morning, we went up to the meadow of magic. It was bright and clear and the sun was shining. We learned to relax undeer th presence of our opponent. It worked out very well.

The little dark blot on the right in the picture is Jan taking his customary smoking break after practice.

And the it was all over again.  Faster than planned, but I think everyone took home something entirely new and original.

There was some absurd and comedic relief, provided by Don standa and Sancho Robert, out ultramarthon running Guru- Chef and his helper with an Indian, Sioux, soul.  Standa’s Knödel have set a standard for inner lightness that we all strive to achieve in our souls.

Barely had you left that the sun disappeared and the valley through on a thick coat of velvety fog. At times the mist parted and let the sun light it up ,but when at last I left, the whole valley  was all fluid and washed out. Pure Tao…

My determination to turn the Albrecht Home into our mountain residence has only increased. Weißwasser is lovely during the summer but in this unsteady, enervating non spring it has turned out to be truly magnificent.

We are back in July from 18th to 23rd..

 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

 

Malte

Fun and Learning in the snow

This morning, we opened the training season 2017. The valiant heroes who got up at 5 am to exercise in snow and cold were richly rewarded.

Snow started falling just after 7 am. Before, we had fun practicing our balance on ice, doing kicks. We circled a few trees thereafter, hitting them and then each other. A few hundred kicks against the oak trees and at last there was an immaculate snow cover on the ground around us. We traced Katas in the snow. See attached picture of a decorous Heian Shodan kanji made by Sarah.

On our way home we mercilessly cut the snow flakes in the air to pieces. We were back in the warm at a quarter to ten.

 

The year may hence begin … hope everyone will have lots of fun,

 

Malte

Bye Bye Urbanraum

Last week, after we finished Thursday class as usually, I lingered a bit longer in Urbanraum, our home for the past 6 and a half years. Lit a candle, practiced all the Katas up to Jion and sat still for a while. Took the key off my keychain and left it on the table. Shut the door behind me and walked home.

And that was it. After a long time we are on the lookout for a new home. Urbanraum saw our group stand on its own feet after we left the Bundestag. It grew rather quickly and shrank again, slowly, before expanding again. Teaching style changed a lot, it is a lot calmer and wiser now that when we moved in. The room changed a lot, too, from slightly overbearing Chinese martial arts kitsch to disorganized dancing community home to crisp and hip event space.

If all goes well we will soon have an adequate replacement at hand. Just a few negotiations with the landlords at Karl Marx Strasse left to be concluded. I will keep everyone abreast of new developments.

 

Greetings

Back from Stolzenhagen

We are back from our Karate Seminar in Stolzenhagen. Many of us went there for the first time. Weather was good. We went swimming in the canal, narrowly escaping a murderous catfish (a little fish was not so lucky, right in front of our eyes). We walked along Krähenberg, our feet dangling over the steep hill, practicing kicks. We leant against the wall of the Herrenhaus practicing sidekicks. We looked inside and let our feet fly outside. There was something in it for everyone.

We even know a new Kata. Everybody escaped unharmed. Unlike the weeks before.

The day after, I went practicing on my own, captivating my audience. See below.

 

See you all in ’17!

 

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