Hi everybody,
just a small notice, how the 9th Modern Arnis summercamp of the DAV (German Arnis Association), that took placve from the 1st through to the 7th of August, went:
This camp was with 146 participants the biggest ever held by the DAV.
Besides ther obvious german participants, we had guests from Switzerland, the Chech Republic, Italy and Russia, who traveled to Germany to participate at this camp.
New was too, that we had a Filipino Grandmaster, who also taught at this camp: Grandmaster Rodel Dagooc, 8. Dan Modern Arnis, who started his Modern Arnis training in 1969 under the Professor and who turned out to be one of his best and most loyal students in the Philippines.
I had the pleasure to train with him intensively already in 1983, during my first training-trip to Manila and I was very glad, that I could welcome him at this camp. He won the hearts of all the participants with his charme, humor and exoplosive techniques.
We had 24 training sessions and during all sessions, 6 teachers were instructing differnt topics simultaneously. For we hat 90 minutes in each session, there was 214 hours of Modern Arnis training in our camp.
The most important was the good athmosphere, that continued throughout the whole camp. Neither from the organisation, nor from the training structure, there were any problems.
One comment of a 45 year old participant: Ii have participated in many camps ans seminars in many different sports. But such a smooth camp in such a friendly athmosphere without any disturbance, I have neve before experienced."
Also Grandmaster Dagooc was very pleased with the summercamp.
He said it was a unique experience for him to train Modern Arnis with so many participants.
He was also impressed by the level of the blackbelts, that he could observe during the black belt gradings, that was also held during the camp.
Everybody is already looking forward for the next, the 10th, Modern Arnis summeramp in 2007.
The instructors of the summercamp were:
Hans Karrer, 5. Dan, Ulm; Helmut Meisel, 3. Dan, Plön; Jorgen Gydesen, 5. Dan, Ulm; Alfred Plath, 4. Dan, Alpen; Peter Rutkowski, 4. Dan, Essen; Datu Dieter Knüttel, 7. Dan, Dortmund; Grandmaster Rodel Dagooc, 8. Dan, Batangas/Philippinen; Sven Barchfeld, 3. Dan, Dresden.
Regards from Germany
Dieter Knüttel
Datu of Modern Arnis
PS: I would like to post some pictures but I can't. Can anybody tell me, why I am not allowed to post attachments?
just a small notice, how the 9th Modern Arnis summercamp of the DAV (German Arnis Association), that took placve from the 1st through to the 7th of August, went:
This camp was with 146 participants the biggest ever held by the DAV.
Besides ther obvious german participants, we had guests from Switzerland, the Chech Republic, Italy and Russia, who traveled to Germany to participate at this camp.
New was too, that we had a Filipino Grandmaster, who also taught at this camp: Grandmaster Rodel Dagooc, 8. Dan Modern Arnis, who started his Modern Arnis training in 1969 under the Professor and who turned out to be one of his best and most loyal students in the Philippines.
I had the pleasure to train with him intensively already in 1983, during my first training-trip to Manila and I was very glad, that I could welcome him at this camp. He won the hearts of all the participants with his charme, humor and exoplosive techniques.
We had 24 training sessions and during all sessions, 6 teachers were instructing differnt topics simultaneously. For we hat 90 minutes in each session, there was 214 hours of Modern Arnis training in our camp.
The most important was the good athmosphere, that continued throughout the whole camp. Neither from the organisation, nor from the training structure, there were any problems.
One comment of a 45 year old participant: Ii have participated in many camps ans seminars in many different sports. But such a smooth camp in such a friendly athmosphere without any disturbance, I have neve before experienced."
Also Grandmaster Dagooc was very pleased with the summercamp.
He said it was a unique experience for him to train Modern Arnis with so many participants.
He was also impressed by the level of the blackbelts, that he could observe during the black belt gradings, that was also held during the camp.
Everybody is already looking forward for the next, the 10th, Modern Arnis summeramp in 2007.
The instructors of the summercamp were:
Hans Karrer, 5. Dan, Ulm; Helmut Meisel, 3. Dan, Plön; Jorgen Gydesen, 5. Dan, Ulm; Alfred Plath, 4. Dan, Alpen; Peter Rutkowski, 4. Dan, Essen; Datu Dieter Knüttel, 7. Dan, Dortmund; Grandmaster Rodel Dagooc, 8. Dan, Batangas/Philippinen; Sven Barchfeld, 3. Dan, Dresden.
Regards from Germany
Dieter Knüttel
Datu of Modern Arnis
PS: I would like to post some pictures but I can't. Can anybody tell me, why I am not allowed to post attachments?