DB Euro Gathering 8/13-14, 2010

[Crafty_Dog]

DB Tribal Gathering:  August 13
DB Open Gathering:  August 14


http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/en/training/seminars.php

Download Flyer

Download Fighter Form

[lonelydog]

A friendly bark,
Mit freundschaftlichem Bellen,
Avec amical aboyer,
Con amichevole abbaiare,
Con amistoso ladrar,

I am very pleased and excited to host together with Guro “Crafty Dog” our annual “Dog Brothers Gathering of the Pack” in Europe.

Please visit: http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/en/dog-brothers/gathering.php to get more information, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to write me an e-mail.

Wuff
Guro Benjamin "Lonely Dog"

[Crafty_Dog]

Forwarded from Lonely Dog:

dear group leader and / or good friends

i send you this e-mail to inform you about the training schedule just before the august gathering in bern.

Best accomodation as a said will be the campsite "eichholz" www.campingeichholz.ch , not just  that it's very close to the gathering / seminar location but also gives the best possibility to meet the other guys and to do some training the days before.

There will be no training camp as last year, but will teach on wednesday and thursday (11./12.august) in the morning hours (10.00 - 12.00).

Beside this official training I'm sure that you will find plenty of guys who are willing to train a bit.

If you have interest to take some private lessons with Guro "Crafty Dog" or myself the following days would be the best to do so:
wednesday 11.august / thursday 12.august / monday 16.august.
if you have interest to do some privates please let me know so i can organize it.

if you have any questions, please let me know.  I'm very excited to see everyone.



wuff
benjamin

[lonelydog]

A big “wuff” to all Fighters, Group Leaders, and DBMA members

I changed the plan, and will do now anyway a small "Training Camp" before the Euro Gathering 2010, namely on Wednesday and Thursday (11. + 12. august).

Inspired by Colin “c-Point Dog” and his idea to classify fighter-types for teaching and coaching. I came up with the idea to make a simple 4-type category:  - Stalker, Counter, Attacker, Mobility -
and to put these 4 fighters types in the context with the 4 elements:  - Earth, Water, Fire, Air -
It’s just a try to have a simple matrix to understand fighters and fight-dynamics better. I know that all these theory-models cannot be perfect, and that these archetypes are rare subsistent. Of course personalities (and fighters) are almost always a blend of different elements/types. Nevertheless this 4 archetype model is very useful to understand your adversary and yourself in a fight…

So the plan for the mini training camp is, to spend 90 minutes for each fighters type / element.

The Camp schedule:
Wednesday: 9.30 – 11.00 (1st Type),  17.00 – 18.30 (2nd Type)
Thursday: 9.30 – 11.00 (3rd Type),  17.00 – 18.30 (4th Type)

(beside of this official training I’m sure that you will find plenty of guys who are willing to train a bit during the day)

The training camp fee is: 100 sfr  (70 euro)

The idea is to stay and train at the campsite "Eichholz" www.campingeichholz.ch
The campsite is in my opinion the best possible accommodation to stay for, not just  that it's very close to the gathering / seminar location but also gives the best possibility to meet the other guys and to do some training the days before.

The costs for the campsite will be around 18 sfr (12 euro) per day.


Schedule for the Camp, Gathering, and Seminar:

Tuesday, 10. august
   - arrival at the campsite "Eichholz"

Wednesday & Thursday, 11. + 12. august
   - training camp (each day 2 training sessions: 9.30-11.00 / 17.00.18.30)

Friday, 13. august
   - tribal gathering, 14.00

Saturday, 14. august
   - gathering 14.00

Sunday, 15. august
   - seminar with Guro “Crafty Dog”, 11.00 - 17.00


If you have interest to do some private lessons  with Guro Marc "Crafty Dog"  between 11. – 16. August, please let me know so I can organize them.

Please register until 18. July!!


If you have any questions, please let me know.
I’m very exited to see many of you again.

Wuff
Benjamin “Lonely Dog” Rittiner

[Crafty_Dog]

Lonely Dog writes:

Today I got the most recent fighters application.  I’m very glad that
this year we have a strong female pool of fighters. 

So far we have:

Monika (52kg), Arianna (53kg), Laetitia (55kg), Lynn (60kg), and Christine
(50kg)

I'm sure you all will have a lot of fun.

see you all soon,
Benjamin/Lonely Dog

[lonelydog]

Registered Fighters are:

Benjamin "Lonely Dog" Rittiner
Ivan "Kuma Dog" Reboli
Mat "Boo Dog" Booe
Stefan "Cro Dog" Kostanjevec
Tinu "3D Dog" Blatter

Andreas "C-Flexi Dog" Hommel
Colin "C-Point Dog" Stewart
Lynn "C-Psycho Bitch" Brown
Oskar "C- Spider Dog" Bernal
Peter "C-Grumpy Dog" Fray
Thomas "C-Sword Dog” Rickert
Tomek "C-Tank Dog" Jurkiewicz
Torben "C-Old Dog" Lorenian

"Dog" Abu Dayyeh
"Dog" Daniel Budar
"Dog" Detlef Thiem
"Dog" Gerry Casey
"Dog" Heiko Zauske
"Dog" Kai Schilling
"Dog" Pawel Imiela
"Dog" Shanu Singh
"Dog" Stefan Ramsauer
"Dog" Thorsten Picker

Alexander König
Andraz Bole
Arianna Allorte
Axel Datschun
Benjamin Schlieper
Chris Hawker
Christine Martell
Damian Dziengo
David Lowndes
Denis Kachelmus
Filippo Pani
Francisco Tarrafeta Rueda
Ivan Pirozhkov
Josef Temml
Kai Schwahn
Kai Spintig
Kostas Tountas
Marco Felici
Monika Radwańska
Ole Leinz
Oliver Zaum
Rudolf Pollak
Rodolfo Manzano Diaz
Sigi Fischer
Thomas Holtmann
Timo Planke
Tobias Szuwart
Tristan Carmona
Wiesław Hapke

http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/en/dog-brothers/gathering.php

wuff !!
Lonely Dog

[bjung]

wow. is that 50 plus people fighting?! good luck to all!

[Point Dog]

Yep, and there's still a few regulars who don't seem to be up there.

Anyone heard from Giri or C-Full Metal?

[Matt Tucker]

Wishing you all a great week of training and some memorable experiences and fights 

Hope to see you all next time.

Wuff

[Howling Dog]

Woof, A storm is brewing in Bern!
Rise up!!!
"Lets do this!"........ Have a great Dog Brothers week/end.  and happy fighting to all! May the injury's be minimal and all leave with the same IQ they came with.  Grrrl woof! 
         C-HD

[Crafty_Dog]

The DBMA Camp has been underway for a few days now.  Guro Lonely is in fine form and I am impressed by the general skill level I am seeing on the part of Camp participants.  The Camp is being held at a beautiful campsite on the banks of a river.  Additional fighers are arriving each day.  The energy is building , , ,

The Adventure contintues!  Higher consciousness through harder contact!

[Crafty_Dog]

The Dog Brothers Tribal Gathering yesterday was simply outstanding!

Today the Open Gathering.

TAC!

[Crafty_Dog]

Another stellar day today.

There were 40 fighters yesterday and about 45 today. 

Much to report, but I am on a crummy laptop and it is 03:30 here anyway and I have a seminar to teach at 11:00.

HCTCH!

TAC! 

[lonelydog]

A yip to new friend Thomas, a man of varied background who brought some very exciting 3 section staff from Praying Mantis to bear!

[Spartan Dog]

A yip to new friend Thomas, a man of varied background who brought some very exciting 3 section staff from Praying Mantis to bear!

Yes, an interesting person, and capable practitioner.  I saw part of the fight, without realizing it was him.  He handles the 3-section staff with considerable dexterity.  Hope to see him again, in the future.

[lonelydog]

He tells me with great passion that he will be back.

Crafty posting from Lonely Dog s computer.

[Crafty_Dog]

IIRC there were 40 fighters on Friday and 45 on Saturday.

[Gong Fu Dog]

This was my first Gathering ever...and I still got a big smile on my face 

The fights, the spirit, the friendship or should I better call it "Brotherhood" at a Gathering is absolutely unique...I'm still blown away how many new friends I got after such a great weekend 

@ lonelydog: Thanks for your kind words! And thanks a lot for giving me the opportunity to fight at the Gathering and to learn more about myself!

@ Kostas: My friend, it was a pleasure to meet you  I'm looking forward to continue our conversation!

@ Crafty Dog: I will be back for sure!! 

And special thanks to Dog Olli, C-Crossover Dog, and Dog Sigi Fischer for giving me some nice Fights...I'm looking forward to meet you Gentlemen again next year 

- Thomas

[marco]

Hi,

it was my first gathering this year and I wanted to say thanks for the good time to all participants.

I've met plenty of nice and interesting people and am looking forward to next year.

Greetings from Hamburg/Germany.

[lonelydog]

Gathering report 2010

Like last year we had again 2 days of fighting. The “Tribal Gathering” on Friday and the “Regular Gathering” on Saturday. The fighters came from various countries: Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, Italy, Spain, France, Norway, Greece, Poland, Slovenia and USA.

The registered fighters were:
Benjamin "Lonely Dog"; Ivan "Kuma Dog"; Marcus "Giri Dog"; Mat "Boo Dog"; Tinu "3D Dog"; Colin "C-Point Dog"; Dominic "C-Sleazy Dog"; Lynn "C-Psycho Bitch"; Oskar "C- Spider Dog"; Peter "C-Grumpy Dog"; Tomek "C-Tank Dog"; Torben "C-Old Dog"; "Dog" Abu Dayyeh; "Dog" Daniel; "Dog" Detlef; "Dog" Gerry; "Dog" Heiko; "Dog" Kai; "Dog" Manfred; "Dog" Pawel; "Dog" Shanu; "Dog" Stefan; "Dog" Thorsten; Andraz Bole; Arianna Allorte; Axel Datschun; Benjamin Schlieper; Chris Hawker; Christine Martell; Damian Dziengo; David Lowndes; Denis Kachelmus; Ericson Hölzchen; Filippo Pani; Francisco T. Rueda; Ivan Pirozhkov; Kai Schwahn; Kai Spintig; Kostas Tountas; Marco Felici; Nils Hartmann; Ole Leinz; Oliver Zaum; Rodolfo M. Diaz; Sigi Fischer; Thomas Holtmann; Timo Planke; Tobias Szuwart; Tristan Carmona; Wiesław Hapke

After the “Magic Words” speech from Guro “Crafty Dog”, everybody was very motivated to start the day.

Because of the big number of fighters, we decided to go without the warm up knife rounds as we did last year.  As usual most fights were done with single sticks or double stick, however we had also some good Staff fights and even a fighter from Germany who fought with a 3 sectional staff.

The decision to have the European “Gathering of the Pack” in July or August is to have the biggest chance for good weather in Switzerland. To keep the costs of the fighters low the Gathering area is close to a campsite. It’s a beautiful location close to the local river “Aare”. The plan was to have all the fighters (some even with their wife and children) on one location, to meet each other, to have interesting conversations, to do some training and to exchange ideas. Unfortunately the weather upsets a bit these good plans, as it was raining quite a bit. Although camping in rain isn’t really funny, I think most guys had a good time.

I was glad that the weather turned better on Friday. So we had the chance to have the tribal gathering outdoor. It was nice to fight on a field. And the weather stayed nice also after the gathering, so we had the possibility to do a barbeque for the fighters at the campsite. It was great to have time to sit around the Campfire and chatting about the adventure that it will continue the next day…

On Saturday we held the Gathering in a traininghall. We decide to have the open Gathering not outdoor to have more control about public matters. We had quite some people who came to watch. Although I think I should try to make more publicity so that we have a bigger crowd the next time. I organized 2 beer barrels to have a drink after the gathering. With this the people who watch the fight and the fighters could exchange their impressions of the day by a beer.

On both days, we had a lot of great fights. It was good to see to have a lot experienced fighters as well as a good amount of newbies. I was glad to see that many fighters did a good progression since the last year. Most fights were technical and one could recognize that the fighters followed game plans and strategies. We saw many fights on a high level and with great spirit. Although the fights were though we had only a few injuries.

On the following day Guro “Crafty Dog” did a seminar in which we did the “Dog Dubbing”.
The “Council of Elders” is proud to announce the new members of the Tribe:

New full Dog Brothers are:
Colin "Point Dog" Stewart
Oskar "Spider Dog" Bernal

New Candidate DBs are:
Abu "C- Desert Dog" Dayyeh
Daniel "C-? Dog" Budar
Detlef "C- Sinatra Dog" Thiem
Gerry "C-? Dog" Casey
Heiko "C- Crossover Dog" Zauske
Kai "C- Suicide Dog" Schilling
Stefan "C-? Dog" Ramsauer
Thorsten "C- Lena Dog" Picker

And with a big welcome “wuff” here the new additions to the Tribe:
"Dog" Axel Datschun
"Dog" Benjamin Schlieper
"Dog" Chris Hawker
"Dog" David Lowndes
"Dog" Filippo Pani
"Dog" Ivan Pirozhkov
"Dog" Kai Schwahn
"Dog" Kai Spintig
"Dog" Kostas Tountas
"Dog" Ole Leinz
"Dog" Oliver Zaum
"Dog" Rodolfo Manzano Diaz
"Dog" Sigi Fischer
"Dog" Wiesław Hapke


All in all it was a very exciting and successful event. And we all are looking forward with anticipation to the next Euro Gathering in 2011.

Wuff
Guro Benjamin “Lonely Dog” Rittiner

[marco]

Congratulations to all new additions to the Tribe, C-Dogs and Dogs!

[Kaju Dog]

Wuff Guro "Lonely Dog",

Fantastic report - Cheers

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone from bottom to top.  The progression in the skill level of the Pack really impressed me at last years Private Gathering.  I can only get excited when I read of our overseas Brothers doing the same. 

The continued progression and consistancy is key to the strength of the Tribe as a whole.  With that said, I am also grateful for the seemingly lower number of reported injuries, especially among the seasoned Dogs. 

"Strength and Honor"

WITH HUGE RESPECT TO YOU ALL,
KD  

[lynnb]

Another great Gathering - thanks to everyone who made it possible.

I enjoyed having 2 new women to fight (and I really hope these women come back for more next year!). Shame 3 women (including the irreplaceable Linda "Bitch" Matsumi) couldn't make it but there's a lot of buzz about women fighting now and I hold high hopes of a record number next time.

It's been fantastic to watch the general skill level rising every year, both in terms of the experienced fighters, and the new guys. I think there's some really solid training going on to bring new fighters of this calibre to a Gathering. Each year I come away with the inspiration to strive to achieve more.

Anyway, thanks again and roll on 2011!

[Dog Daniel]

I would like to chime in to the thanks and praises for a great weekend!

After missing last year's gathering I was very nervous to step on the dancefloor again. Especially as nearly everybody already had fought on friday and was sitting around calmly while I was jumping from one foot to the other the whole saturday morning.

To everybody: I'm looking forward to meet you again next year. The time will come when I will make it to the tribal gathering, too.

Daniel

[lonelydog]

more pics from the euro gathering 2010 here:  http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/en.php?lang=EN

wuff
lonely dog

[The Tao]

The date for the next Euro gathering are now up and can be seen here. 

http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/de/dog-brothers/gathering.php

[Gong Fu Dog]

The date for the next Euro gathering are now up and can be seen here. 

http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/de/dog-brothers/gathering.php

I will be there....

[Spartan Dog]

The date for the next Euro gathering are now up and can be seen here. 

http://www.dogbrothers.ch/pages/de/dog-brothers/gathering.php

I will be there....

I look forward to seeing you there, once again!

[Gong Fu Dog]

Kostas: Yes my friend...I'm also looking forward to see you again 

[The Tao]

I'm planning on going myself and I know that a couple people from the East Coast are gearing up as well. Looks like we'll have a decent turn out from this continent.

[Gong Fu Dog]

I'm planning on going myself and I know that a couple people from the East Coast are gearing up as well. Looks like we'll have a decent turn out from this continent.

Would be great if you guys could make it....See you next year in Bern   

[AndrewBole]

hi guys and girls !

only now got access to the forums, so, hi

To reiterate what was already said, it was a fantastic experience, I met very nice new people and learned alot. Cant wait to see you next year!!

regards from Slovenia.


Andraz

[Gong Fu Dog]

Andraz: My friend, good to have you here on the Forum   

I enjoyed our conversation about Bjj a lot...Looking forward to see you again next year 

[Crafty_Dog]

For those of you who attended my seminar the day after the Gathering, Andraz assisted me by playing "Mongo" in my demonstration of the ideas being taught.

[AndrewBole]

@ Gong fu : hiiiiiiii mate, nice to know we have this contact here. I was actually thinking about that chat not that long ago, and couldnt remember if you said you have facebook profile or not. But great to hear from you again, no doubt !!

@ guro Crafty : thank you for that explanation, I am sure people cant forget that

[Gong Fu Dog]

@AndrewBole: No bro, I don't have a facebook profile...but we can keep in touch via PM 

[Crafty_Dog]

@Andrew:  I am sure that everyone there knew that a big athletic guy like you was being a good sport