Learn from rowing: to Grow in the Eighth

a few days Ago, Hans Lenk gave Emeritus Karlsruhe professors Internet presentation on the topic “The rudder, the wonders of Rome, 1960” – so his Olympic victory with the Germany-Eighth. A long time ago. But the 85-year-old philosophy Professor, lit. The Triumph of time has shaped him. He was only possible under the guidance of one of the most important coach that Germany has ever produced: by Karl Adam from Ratzeburg.

Adam was directing a father figure, class, teacher, coach, and Mentor, he gave him the motto that he followed always. And not only him, but all the rowers Generation. Adam’s been 45 years dead and still he acts in his students.

be The must of the dream of a teacher! As the old man had warmed enough by the “rudder-Eighth as a team” and the “highest possible form of the same cooperation,” he repeated, by the way, the following wisdom from the 19th century. Century’t Leave out: “your boat on the seas of fate the waves. Row itself; but not row clumsy.“ We find This also applies outside of the Aft.

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