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Shine in the

Munich Hall
of Honours

2017

WOW , WHAT A WEEKEND! THE AN-
NUAL MUNICH HALL OF HONOURS
EVENT WAS NOT JUST A REGULAR
EVENT. NO IT WAS MUCH MORE
THAN THAT. IT WAS A MILESTONE IN
THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MARTIAL
ARTS. IT WAS THE 10TH ANNIVER-
SARY OF THIS EVENT, FOUNDED MY
MASTER GREGOR J HUSS IN THE YEAR
2008.
“The past 10 years where event with some 70-100 peo- Simac was there and Emma
not easy at all“ says Gre- ple are still with me and have Elmes, but also for the first
gor Huss when asked about not let out one single event time my good friend Soke
these years: „The problem since. And I am not only tal- Heinz Köhnen, one of the
in the first five years was to king about my loyal students Legends of Karate in Ger-
convince traditional martial that have been with me but many since the early years
artists in Germany that it was international renown martial and some of his students.
fun to have an event like the artists like Master Emma El- From Manila we had GM
Munich Hall of Honours and mes from the UK , Silvio Si- Andy Kunz, very well knows
to get together an meet and mac, GM Juerg Ziegler and also for his movies. It was
train together.“ others. „ the 150th birthday of Bava-
rias King Ludwig II, they call
But most martial artists didnt The Munich Hall of Honours the Fairy Tale King who built
see a need for an event like even moved one year in 2011 so many beautiful castles in
this. But little by little and outside of Munich and was Bavaria and was drowned in
one by one he had a growing held at the beautiful Hotel Lake Starnberg.
community which saw and at the Castle Linderhof near
experienced the benefits of the alps. Beautiful Karate “But already the following
this event. „The funny thing Diva Karen Sheperd and her year we returned to Munich
is, „ he says „ most of my first husband where attending the and our new location was
members from 2008 – 2010 event for the second time and THE WALDHEIM, a event-
when we were still small of course Action Star Silvio location in the south-west

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