Matthias Schlitte

Hey guys,
today I was the first time in the hall of the competition. The AWfS-Arena is an basketball hall, which reminds me more on on the times without a 3-point-line and wide shorts.The stage and light inside the hall is very good. 23 countries with more than 600 entries will take part in Gdansk.The German team won four medals and had a successfull day!
After the competition I wanted to check out the harbour and may search the Black Pearl. Instead of an impressing sailing boatI found and old industrial harbour with scarry old metal cranes and destroied houses….may I will build up an theme park here in the future.On the way back I met Chuck Norris again :-)
Tomorrow the hunger games are over and I hope I can super size myself after the weigh in.

Good night from the Polish Black Pearl.
Matthi Sparrow

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The Tuesday is nearly over and I spend my first night in Gdansk. Time for a small review. Today I went again to the beautiful old city of Gdansk. It is a little like the German cities Rostock and Lübeck…feels like home. And I saw another known face: Chuck Norris is on the billboards for a bank here- I will take a photo if you want. But I guess it is impossible to take it because it is Chuck Norris. The German Masters made their weight, I had 70.5kg on scale….thats mean I will be the hungry Hugo for the next 2 days. Instead of elevator- stairs, instead of a good steak- ….nothing!

Good night from the East!
Hungry Red

I found the link for the current starting list…looking tough!
Ich habe den Link zur vorläufigen Startliste gefunden…ein sehr starkes Teilnehmerfeld!

Starting List

After a 9 hour drive over fast German motorways and not so fast Polish streets we arrived in Gdansk. We checked in and took a little tour to the beautiful old city. I ate a salad and drank a water cause I am still a little to big. I hope I will make it to Thursday. Tomorrow the Masters and Juniors will do their weigh in and I want to check the Baltic sea and the new stadium of the city.

Good night

The hungry, tired

Hey my friends,

all stuff is packed and I am close to leave the country. I will drive with my teammates from my club VfL Wolfsburg to Gdansk/Poland to the Europeans. This are the 22nd Europeans and I will take part for the 4th time. I have to get 70kg for my category so I have to care a little about my food and drinks, but after thursday I can eat everything and I will double my weight :-)
I will try to keep you posted about my week in this beautiful city at the Baltic Sea.

Thanks for your support :-)
Matthi

Sorry guys about my very late update, but the promised high-speed wifi in Almaty was not fast as expected. Anyway Almaty was a great experience. First I would like to tell you a little about the worlds. The competition took place in a big hockey-hall next to the central stadium. After a long journey from Berlin over Kiev to Almaty we arrived snowy Almaty at 5 o´clock in the morning. We just brought our luggage to our very nice hotel and went directly to the weigh in. There we met the whole (small) German Team. After a delay (as usual) I jumped on scale and made easily the 70kg class with 67.4kg.

On Saturday I was on fire cause the 70kg were one of the first classes who hat to compete. In the first round I had a very close fight with KHETAG DZITIEV from Russia. I lost very close in the strap and Dzitiev got later worldchampion. In the second and the third round I won comfortable against JASUR MANAZAROV from tajikistan and YIGAL GORELASHVILI from Israel. In the 4th round I faced the superstrong slovakian JAN VOJENCAK. We were in the referee’s grip and after the ready…go Jan good fast in the positive hook. I got a elbow-foul…RESTART! He came again in the positive hook, but this time could stop him and I turned in the positive hook. I think I was on the right track but slipped with my elbow off the pad and got my second foul :-/ . I became 12th and anyhow I were pleased because the fights I lost I lost close and after the huge problems with my right hand in 2010 and at the beginning of this year everything is okay again. I also met some very nice guys in my class like Josh Handeland from the US, Mariusz Podgorski from Poland, Jan Vojencak from Slovakia and my buddies Hristo from Bulgaria and Lorenzo+ some very nice guys from India, Kasachstan and other countries. Sorry I can´t mention everyone.

About Almaty:
It is a very nice city and if the weather is clear it is very beautiful as well cause you can see the snowy mountain-tops of the Tian-Schan mountain rage! I don´t know many about the public transportation- just 3 facts:
About buses? The bus is cheap and full as hell!!!
About taxi? Nearly every car is a taxi. You just have to raise your hand at the street and a car will stop. You have to tell the place where you want to go and bargain a little about the price. I never drove in so many different cars in one week… I love it!!
About subway? There is a subway!
In Almaty I saw many very nteresting sights like kok tebö a really beautiful place! It is a huge hill next to the center where you can see the lights of the city from the top. Really lovely <3. The Bacholka Bazar a really unique market where you can buy everything if you are brave enough and don´t get lost.
Medeo Ice Stadium a 1 hour drive from our hotel and we were in heaven. The stadium is at the edge of the Tian-Schan in the middle of a winterwonderland.
The people I met in this city are very friendly and I met some lovely people like Ahmed, Gina, Merei and of cause Nursi.
On Sunday we left the city and traveled to Astana the new capital of Kasachstan.
But if there any international tournaments or trainingcamps in Almaty I would love to return to the old capital !!!

Article about Astana will follow soon!!

Hey guys,

I will try to update as much as possible, but the internet is a bitch here :-).

Greez from snowy Kazakstan… my weight is okay and I am in the 70kg-class :-) (with 67.7kg it was a little to low- but better to low than too high ?!)

My competition will be on saturday, so some days left to gain some weight :-)

Hello Armwrestling-fans,

it is time: The armwresling worldchampionchips are very,very,very… close. The tournament will start on Sunday with the arrival of more than 1300 armwrestlers from 39 countries. Between me the states stands a 24 hours flight-trip. On Sunday I will fly from Leipzig over Düsseldorf and Chicago to the edge of professional armwrestling: Las Vegas. Here nearly everything started in 1986 with the filming of Over the Top. On this page I will try to share my images and adventures with you for the next 2 weeks. So think of me.

I am so excited!

Greez

Matthi