Autor My martial arts training began in 1972 without school, without a teacher, without a karate uniform. The garden shed became my training room. With self-made sandbags, homemade kobudo weapons, and plenty of innovation and enthusiasm. And since my parents' house was still heated by stoves, there were plenty of briquettes for extensive practice breaking tests. Breaking tests, in particular, where boards, roof shingles, or clay jugs are suspended in a free-swinging pose, serve to answer the question of whether a technique is of quality or not. When the first judo school opened in town, I was there. Even though it wasn't what I was really interested in. And back then, hardly anyone knew how much judo was involved in karate. From 1976, there was a Shotokan karate school in the town 9 km away. From 1984, I came into contact with Goju Ryu and from 1998 with Shito Ryu. I began teaching karate in 1999. Initially, Shotokan. From 2000 onward, it was primarily Shito Ryu. And at the age of 40, I participated in a Kata competition for the first time. Between 2002 and 2013, my work focused on coaching competitive athletes. For a time, I served as a technical advisor to the Slovakian national Kata team. But primarily as a coach for Franziska, Karolin, and Julia Kurz. My greatest successes were Franziska Kurz's win at the 2007 WKF European Championship in Izmir, as well as numerous international titles (WGKF World Championships) in team Kata.

Autor mit Franziska Kurz (2007 Pataya, Türkei)

Autor mit Julia, Karolin, Franziska Kurz (2008 Türkei)

The water reached just below knee height (2007 Pataya Türkei)

I don't know how many hours of work went into this website. If I add everything up (text, images, and programming) it was certainly more than 1,000. It's hard for me to answer the question of why I invested so much time. Perhaps it was the heart of a researcher who wanted to help preserve knowledge.