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arnisador
04-18-2006, 03:17 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Kn%C3%BCttel

I have made Dieter Knuettel redirect to Dieter Knüttel as well.



Dieter Knüttel (1960 - ) is a German (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German) practitioner of the Filipino martial art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_martial_art) of Modern Arnis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Arnis). He began his study of the martial arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_art) in 1967 with Judo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo). He would go on to study Karate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate), Kung Fu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu), and Tai Chi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Chi). In 1978 he began to learn Arnis from Jackson Cui Brocka, a student of Remy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Presas) and Ernesto Presas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Presas) of Manila (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila). He earned his black belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_belt) in the art in 1981. He would study with many senior Modern Arnis instructors from the [[Philippines], including, eventually, the three Presas brothers themselves.

Throughout the 1908s he focused on Modern Arnis as taught by Ernesto Presas (now called Kombatan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombatan)). In 1994 he met Remy Presas, the founder of Modern Arnis, whom he regularly brought to Germany to teach seminars. In 1996 Remy Presas awarded him the rank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_rank) of 6th Dan in Modern Arnis and the title of Datu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datu). In 2003 the “Council of Elders of Modern Arnis” in Manila, consisting of the highest Modern Arnis masters in the Philippines, promoted him to the rank of 7th Dan in Modern Arnis. He has also received the titles of “Senior Master of Modern Arnis” as well as “Master of Classical Arnis” from Rene Tongson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Tongson).

Since 1985, Dieter Knüttel has been the chief instructor of the German Modern Arnis Association (DAV), since 1985. (The DAV is the largest independent Filipino Martial Arts association in Europe.) He travels extensively in Europe, to the USA, and to Australia to teach Modern Arnis seminars, both for the general public and for military and police units. He has been featured on several covers of German martial arts magazines and has demonstrated Modern Arnis on TV several times.

His most senior student is Hans Karrer, who is a 6th Dan in Modern Arnis. Together with Alfred Plath he organized the 1st and 2nd Filipino Martial Arts Festival in Germany. The second attracted more than 600 participants--the largest Filipino martial arts seminar ever, worldwide.

In addition to teaching Modern Arnis, he has also gained recognition for his martial arts instructional videos and DVDs, produced by his company ABANICO (founded in 1989 and named for a certain Filipino martial arts strike). The company has produced videos and DVDs by practitioners of a variety of Filipino martial arts.

In 1988 he graduated from the German Sports University with the Master of Arts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts) degree in sports science.


Some questions that could lead to filling out the entry (none are necessary):

-City of birth?
-Personal data: Family members, previous occupations, military service, current city of residence?
-Is German Sports University the proper name of the school, or merely a description of it? Is there a B.A.-level degree preceding the M.A.?
-Links to web pages such as the DAV and a personal home page for D.K.?
-Is there a web reference for the Council of Elders? Are the titles from Rene Tongson properly titles or styles?

I can dig up the DAV link. Again, it isn't necessary to have any of these; all are optional.

Mono
04-18-2006, 04:21 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Kn%C3%BCttel

I have made Dieter Knuettel redirect to Dieter Knüttel as well.

Some questions that could lead to filling out the entry (none are necessary):

I can dig up the DAV link. Again, it isn't necessary to have any of these; all are optional.

-City of birth? Berlin
-Personal data: Family members, previous occupations, military service, current city of residence? He should add that himself ;) ...
-Is German Sports University the proper name of the school, or merely a description of it? Is there a B.A.-level degree preceding the M.A.? As far as I know the "Diplom" (which is the German description of this) is more of an eqivalent to a "Masters Degree" then a "Bachlors Degree" - but its not like you take the first step and then the next - its all in one...
-Links to web pages such as the DAV and a personal home page for D.K.?
There is www.modern-arnis.de (http://www.modern-arnis.de) (Link to the DAV) as well as www.abanico.de (http://www.abanico.de) (his Company)
-Is there a web reference for the Council of Elders? Are the titles from Rene Tongson properly titles or styles? I wittlesed Master Rene awarding the Title of "Master of Classical Arnis" (he also awarded it to Master Hans Karrer) I think ist more of a title...
As far as the "Council" goes - as far as I know they were mostly from the IMAFP but also from other Organisations (Only seen the Ceremony on Video); but I suppose Dieter might post some proper Information about it himself - he knows these People way better ;)


Well, hope it helped anyways :)

Yours,
Mono

Datu Dieter
04-18-2006, 05:54 PM
Hi Arnisador,

Mono already gave a frew answers.


-City of birth?
-Personal data: Family members,
Married to Bea Knüttel, (1990) 2 boys, Sascha (1993) and Marius (1996)

previous occupations, I founded ABANICO 9 months after I finished my university. So there was note really a previous occupation.

military service, None.

current city of residence? Dortmund, Germany

-Is German Sports University the proper name of the school, or merely a description of it?
It is the correct name of the University. The only University in Germany, that is specialized on physical education only.

Is there a B.A.-level degree preceding the M.A.?
No, only now they start to introduce the bachelor degree in Germany. The "Diplom" is the equivalent to ther "Master of Arts". It takes around 4 years of study.

-Links to web pages such as the DAV and a personal home page for D.K.? Mono already answered this. We are working on an english version of the DAV website and I am working on my own as well. Not yet there though.

-Is there a web reference for the Council of Elders?
No. But thy are not only from the IMAF, because Jerry de la Cruz, Rodel Dagooc and Victor Sanchez are not part of the IMAFP, at least not at that time.


Are the titles from Rene Tongson properly titles or styles?
They are titles. Senior Master Modern Arnis was given from GM Tongson on behalf of the IMAFP.


I can dig up the DAV link. Again, it isn't necessary to have any of these; all are optional.
www.modernarnis.de (http://www.modernarnis.de)

Thanks for putting it together. There are a few little things that are not correct in the bio, but I will correct it directly in Wikipedia.


Thanks again


Dieter

Datu Dieter
04-18-2006, 06:03 PM
OK, I have made a few minor changes in Wikipedia.
The general article is very good.

Thanks

Dieter

arnisador
04-18-2006, 06:14 PM
OK, I have made a few minor changes in Wikipedia.


Great! I'll try to add some of the other minor details and also port it to Martialpedia later.

arnisador
04-24-2006, 12:34 PM
OK, updated. Some Wikipedian will come along and categorize it, I'm sure. I'll add it to MartialPedia too.

Datu Dieter
04-24-2006, 02:46 PM
Thanks. I just went over it again too, especially the first paragraph adding a few names of my teachers in the Philippines.
Also I began in 1980 to concentrate on Modern Arnis and not 1908 . I am not that old yet. :)

But thanks for the work. Really nice.

Dieter

arnisador
04-24-2006, 03:58 PM
Also I began in 1980 to concentrate on Modern Arnis and not 1908 . I am not that old yet.

Ooops! Well, I'm glad you think it looks good otherwise. We can add a picture or more info. at any time.

Mono
04-24-2006, 04:43 PM
I found a Nice one on Google Picture search :biggrinbo

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0011925/knuettel.jpg

arnisador
04-24-2006, 05:24 PM
Great! Are there any copyright issues, though?

Datu Dieter
04-25-2006, 02:13 AM
Hi Arnisador,

it is quite an old picture (about 10 years) but you can use it.
No copyright problems


Dieter

Mono
04-25-2006, 02:15 AM
Ups - actually it was meant to be more of a joke :angel: ...

arnisador
04-25-2006, 12:03 PM
Ups - actually it was meant to be more of a joke ...

Sorry, I've never met him so I wouldn't know if it was recent or not!

Datu Dieter
04-25-2006, 02:11 PM
OK, I just wanted to post 4 morer recent ones.
But I cannot attach them here. Why not btw?

Here are the URLs, where you can download them direclty:

http://www.abanico.de/dieter-2001.jpg
http://www.abanico.de/dieter-knuettel-2003.jpg
http://www.abanico.de/dieter-sola-2005.jpg
http://www.abanico.de/remy-dieter-1999.jpg

I have put the year of the picturetaking in the filename.
I can send some more action pictures too, if you like.
How can I attach pictures here?
At the bottom it says, I am not allowed to make attachments.


Regards


Dieter

Apollo
04-26-2006, 12:46 PM
Hello Datu.
Uploading of attachments is a feature reserved for Supporting Members. You can find more information here: http://fmatalk.com/showthread.php?t=72

arnisador
04-26-2006, 02:42 PM
I added the 2003 picture (with the weapons), but it's too big and will need to be cut down to a smaller size at some point.

Datu Dieter
04-26-2006, 06:07 PM
OK, I have reduced the picture in size.
You can download it under the following adress:

http://www.abanico.de/dieter-knuettel-2003-small.jpg


I hope this is a good size.



Regards


Dieter

Datu Dieter
04-28-2006, 03:30 AM
Hello Arnisador,

I just saw the Wikipedia entry with the smaller picture.
Looks great. Thanks for the effort


Regards


Dieter

arnisador
04-28-2006, 10:46 AM
Glad to have been of help! Now let's see what happens as others come by and add things.