This weekend is the annual Crossfit Games to determine who is the fittest person/team on the planet. I have been glued to the screen watching with amazement as the athletes crushed the most grueling of workouts so far. I am so proud that there are so many Scandinavians in the games this year. My friends from Crossfit Butchers Garage are competing in the team events and they are doing an amazing job.
It is truly amazing to look back at where Crossfit started and where it is now. I would never have imagined that I would sit here and watch the Crossfit Games being so big as it is this year. Crossfit has changed that lives of people and the way we view fitness. It is an amazing time we have ahead of us, “WE ARE CROSSFIT”.
It has been a very long time since I posted anything on my site. I have been very busy with new job, moving to a new place, teaching and training. I’m very happy about training and teaching at Square One Crossfit here in Mississauga. I hope many more will both join to train Crossfit bot also to train the wonderful art of Chi Sim Weng Chun Kung Fu.
Chi Sim Weng Chun is still not that know worldwide, but with the help of dedicated teachers around the world maybe one day that will change. I started to train Chi Sim Weng Chun in 2005, under my Sifu’s Thomas Roskjær and Sifu Henrik “Affe” Sprechler. Affe is the founder of Butcherslab and Butchersgarage in Copenhagen, Denmark where you can train Crossfit, Training for Warriors and Weng Chun/Bjj. When I got the idea for Aarhus Crossfit in the beginning of 2008, Affe was one of the people that I consulted for help with my ideas.
Weng Chun is not only a martial art and healing art, but also an art that teaches people the way of the spiritual warrior through the teachings of Chan Buddhism. In the 6 1/2 principle form the first principle is “Tai”, which means to raise or to lift. This can be transfered to your everyday life. If a person next to you is in a bad mood, you try to life their spirit so they feel better, so you are using the principle of “Tai”. When you get out of bed in the morning you also use “Tai” not only to lift you body out of bed, but also to lift your spirit/mind to the task at hand, to go to work. Similar to that the 64′th verse of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu reminds us that ” A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
I hope to see more people for the Weng Chun Classes at Square One Crossfit. Our website is here we train Monday 8:00Pm-9:00Pm, Wednesday 8:00Pm -9:00Pm and Friday 7:00Pm – 8:00Pm and the address is
1203A Fewster Drive,
Mississauga, ON
L4W 1A2
Here is a clip of the beautiful art of Chi Sim Weng Chun hope you enjoy:
Happy Easter to every one. Its been a while since I have posted anything here sorry for that.
I have been following the Crossfit Open I am very impressed with the athletes and their skill level. My long time friends from Butcherslab in Denmark are number 4 in all of Europe. Really good job boyz. I can’t wait to see the end results from this competition. I really think that this is an amazing event and a super idea from Crossfit HQ’s side. It has giving more people a chance to show their skills and passion for Crossfit, then otherwise would have been possible. Going to compete in the 2011 games is expensive, especially if you are coming from Europe. I hope that in the near future there will be more then one event for the Crossfit Games or it would be easier for people traveling from far away places to attend. Maybe one day we will see a European Crossfit Games? I can’t wait to see this years games, its gonna be huge.
On another matter, I have a new idea that I want to create on my Blog. I still did not decide on the name of this yet, but like you have the Work out of the day, I will be posting something similar to that. The idea is that it will not only be workouts, but also different mental exercises that I want Your feedback on. The point is to give you the reader some new ideas and new tools so that you can improve different areas of your life. In Crossfit we have the 10 Fitness Domains that we can follow to improve our skill, but what do we use in our day-to-day life? Which skill-set do we use when we are fighting with our love ones? So my idea with this is not only to improve your physical skills, but also your mental and emotional skill-set. If you have ideas or thoughts on this, I would be more then happy to hear them. Thank you
Here is a little inspirational video for you, with Dr. Wayne Dyer
One of the people that I had the great pleasure to train with and learn from is Martin Rooney. For those of you how don’t know who Martin is, he is the co-founder of the Parisi Speed School and the founder of Training for Warriors (TFW).
Martin has some great ideas when it comes to training athletes and especially people competing in Martial arts. Check out his amazing book on martial arts training here.
On this video, Martin is in Butcherslab in Copenhagen, Denmark to give his second Training for Warriors seminar. He is with my good friend and long time training partner Henrik “Affe” Sprechler and they are doing the TFW Pull up circuit enjoy…..
Two of my friends from the Danish Weng Chun fighting team went to Krakow, Poland, this weekend to participate in the European open in Lei Tai/Sanda.
My long time friend and training partner Henrik “Affe” Sprechler won Silver at this event.
Sifu Henrik had three hard fights at the event. The first fight was against an Iranian kick-boxier and was won by points. The second fight was against a guy from Azabajan, who was a former national wrestler and went for many takedowns. The Azerbaijan won the first round, but after changing his tactical approach Sifu henrik, won the next two rounds. The last fighter Sifu Henrik had to fight, was also from Azabajan and was a former two times world champion in Sanda, and a national freestyle wrestler. Sifu Herik lost to a broken toe, which forced him to stop. But all in all a very good event for the Danish Weng Chun fighters and for the future of Weng Chun around the world.
I’am very happy that Sifu Henrik won his fights. I will upload video from the event, when I get it.
