Below you will find the sports I do or have done and taught.
After our military service (1984-1985), Fred and I started training at Sportcentrum Hollander
which was then still a small room where Nautilus® equipment.
We trained hard three times a week.
After one year we were asked if we wanted to become an instructor, on Thursday evening two instructors were needed.
Our Chef Instructor of this evening was Jan, After a few years he left and we got another Chef Instructor called Ruud.
Beginning 1995, all Instructors had to pass a Nautilus Exam and were classified into the following grades.
Assistant ,B ,A or Chef Instructor, one of the Chef Instructors also became Head Instructor.
After passing the exam, Fred and I became A Instructors.
After less than a year, we both became Chef Instructors.
When Ruud left I became the Head Instructor for Thursday evening.
After a few years, Fred became Head Instructor on Saturday morning to study better and left Thursday evening.
After a few years of absence, Fred came back to Thursday evening and the two brothers were together again.
In all those years I have trained many new instructors to become assistant B and A instructor not only for Thursday but also for other evenings.
The last ones were Debby and Stephan who was part of my Thursday evening team.
In 2012, Jimmy Peek took over the sportcenter and I became Coordinator on Thursday evenings and was in charge of the sportcenter that evening.
Unfortunately, the sportcenter went bankrupt in early 2015 and was taken over by Basic-Fit, who do not work with Nautilus® equipment or with fitness instructors, so after 29 years that has come to an end.
January 4, 1989 my brother and I started doing karate because we as Nautilus Instructors could also practice this sport.
After two years of strength training it was not as easy as we thought to start karate, kicking up was quite difficult at first with short muscles, even a Dachshund was safe so to speak.
After about one year of training, we went up for our first exam.
10th Kyu we got this on April 29, 1989.But everything comes to an end.
Whether or not forced by a doctor, a serious injury to my big toe ended my karate era, I was found to have broken my big toe twice without knowing it.
In April 1997 I had to give up one of my favorite sports.
All those years have taught me discipline and given me a lot of self-confidence.
I therefore look back on this period in my sport life with great pleasure.
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Below is a video of a championship match in Rotterdam 1990 i finished 3rd
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In May 2015 my girlfriend Terry and i were invited by my old karate teacher Shihan Vlado Haljer and Sensei Jenny Scholten from “Katsu Heiwa Dojo” went to the spring karate camp in Samobor Croatia for one week.
After 18 years I put on my karate gi again and tried if I could still do it.
Unfortunately I suffered from heel spurs and I was not able to participate in everything.
Terry did get her Orange belt because she just trained for a complete week.
Was a very nice week to do again.
Osu.
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A lesson video from 2014
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Parapent video stage 1 year 1996
