by Frank Bolte » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:47 pm
On November 12th and 13th I had my good friend Pavel Macek Sifu giving a seminar at my school in Hannover. I have known Pavel for a large number of years and although the two of us coming from Europe; Germany and the neighbouring Czech Republic we have never met on european soil.
It was always in Hongkong and on two occasions I had students of Pavel Macek Sifu visiting me in my school on the Philippines when I still lived there.
So when the chance was given and Pavel had to travel to Hannover,Germany for a mma seminar with Eric Paulson we took the opportunity for a seminar. For my students this was a great chance to learn directly from Pavel Sifu who has learned the complete Lam Gar curriculum and many years of teaching experience. The toppic was the 7 star section of the famous Fu Hok seong ying kuen set,along with proper waist power action,the whole seminar was meant to be practical...so instead trying out several things and forms the complete seminar was build on the concept of 7 star striking.
Footwork,power generation and conditioning. On the first day with a lot of basic principles and proper execution and on day 2 the practical applications. Pavel Sifu stayed alltogether for 4 days and he was so generous to give some private lesson ( free of charge! ) to some of my students;so he went through the complete gung ji and 8 diagram pole sets and also gave some corrections on fu hok and seong lung do set.A great privilege for my students and they absolutely appreciated it.
Apart from that it was really good to have my friend Pavel over for some extended hung kuen discussions over some beers and lots of late night snacks.
The next big plan should be our school joining Sifu Pavels summercamp next year.
Pavel Sifu,once again thank you for the seminar and the generousity of sharing!
We cant wait till next time!
Hung kuen yat gar!