http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiUg7W1-N0 Do you remember that post in which I talk about how nervous I was when I had to play the last men's double at the 2010 world team championship? Forget about that story! This one is far better. Vereeniging, South Africa, 5th of April 2014. We had lost the first four games of the… Continue reading The Most Important Game of my Life
Playing Ringtennis in a South African Township
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0GDT2VN5A If I had to choose the two most amazing moments of our trip to the world cup in South Africa, the first one would be for sure when we played ringtennis at a primary school in the township of Wattville. We went there together with Abrie Pienaar and Johan Ferreira, who are involved in… Continue reading Playing Ringtennis in a South African Township
31 days later … #Ringtennis #worldCup
It's been one month since the 2014 Ringtennis World Cup in South Africa now and I really needed those four weeks to digest all the experiences—the ones with the national team but also rather personal ones. However, before writing about the world cup in one or two separate posts, I'm gonna talk about the open… Continue reading 31 days later … #Ringtennis #worldCup
Twenty years from now …
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain
If you love two people at the same time …
"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second." — Johnny Depp
The 2014 Ringtennis World Cup in the News
From today's issue of the German daily newspaper Rhein-Zeitung:
2014 Ringtennis World Cup: Staying up-to-date
Dear friends, the German national team is leaving for South Africa tomorrow. Thus, I wanna provide you with a final compilation of websites that you can refer to for updates and results during the two weeks that we're going to stay there: The official website of the 2014 Ringtennis World Cup (check this site for… Continue reading 2014 Ringtennis World Cup: Staying up-to-date
Ecosia: Helping the environment while surfing the web has never been so easy!
Let me guess ... you're using Google for searching the web?! OK, I admit, that one was easy. I think if you bet $1 on whether someone's using Google and won, you'd probably get only 80¢ back. So what's the business model of Google's web search? They provide you with high-quality search results for free and… Continue reading Ecosia: Helping the environment while surfing the web has never been so easy!
13 Days to Go
OK, so there are only 13 days left until the German national team and I leave for South Africa . Training is going well so far. I've been practicing daily for two weeks now and already feel quite well prepared. Actually, I've been watching videos of the last world cup all day because I really… Continue reading 13 Days to Go
This is a motherfucking website. And it’s not completely fucking perfect
(Disclaimer: motherfuckingwebsite.com was not made by me!) I recently stumbled upon motherfuckingwebsite.com, which is the most pragmatic and minimalistic approach to website creation I've seen so far (except for plain TXT files, of course). The first two lines read "This is a motherfucking website. And it's fucking perfect." The site has raised quite some attention… Continue reading This is a motherfucking website. And it’s not completely fucking perfect
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 