Winnetou childhood hero Patrick Fischer . However, the Zug had to almost be 43, until we know the Wild West so crossed, as in the film adaptations of the Karl May classics: horse-riding. Together with his three years older brother, Marco, he took in the beginning of September on an 18-day culture and landscape trip of the Swiss Charly Juchler in the Mid-West part to the territory of the Lakota Indians.

for Eight days, the fishermen ride on a Mustang through the Prairie, four, five hours a day, once even eight. On Instagram he posted photos to remember the Marlboro ads of the 1980s – without the cigarette, of course.

On the trail of Sitting Bull

His previous experience with the Indians in South America, fishing. This summer he visited for the first time, the Indians in North America. He went with the group on the tracks of the legendary Sitting Bull, explored the area, where his favorite film, “dances with wolves” was filmed. And rode with the Indians, who have played in it.

The Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest, he got to know the flip side of the everyday life of the marginalized Urvolks: “There is not much left of the Indians of romance from the movies,” he says. “The children have no prospects, there is a lot of alcohol and drugs are in the game.” Him, is so fascinated by the Indian culture, that hurt.

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So, correct in touch with this he came, for the first time in 2001, the HC Davos, when he suffered a severe cartilage damage to the right knee. “It was a turbulent time. My then wife was pregnant, and they told me I had to stop by the ice hockey . Kubilay Türkyilmaz had to end his career due to the same injury.” But Fischer found the help and Confidence of a native American-shamanic healer in Davos and then in the fall, surprisingly fast Comeback. “At that time, my fascination grew for this culture. I was clear that I would like to visit the Indians.”

This dream he fulfilled eight years later, when he was 33 again all surprised and in spite of a continuing contract when you EV train his career ended. First, he whiled away the time as a semi-professional poker player. As he began to dream of cards, he decided for the contrast, and traveled with his brother to the Shipibo Indians in the Peruvian Amazon rain forest. The peace, simplicity, closeness to nature impressed him. And the conscious way of life, although you had explained to no one, that is referred to today as mindfulness, and the teaching has become a lucrative line of business.

Fischer was also fascinated by the rituals of the Shipibo Indians, about the initiation ritual from a boy to a man: “your ceremonies give strength to you. You do not simply rituals, because they have joy in it. These have an important function. In our society, you see.”

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the cohesion of the community impressed him. This embossing you see today is also the national coach Fischer. He puts a lot of emphasis on harmony and maintains certain rituals. At the world Cup in 2017 was given in Paris to every game that player a Tomahawk, had worked most for the Team. This spring, in Copenhagen, on the way to silver, was the “challenge Cup” a field of green Swiss army helmet, model 1971.

In the quiet of the jungle he had found some things out about herself as a person, told Fischer. One could speak of self-determination. “It is extremely, how much we are trapped by our negative thoughts,” he admitted. “If you can solve something that feels good.”

So he, too, could his active career, releasing that he had ended so abruptly. About his experiences in the Amazon, he spoke publicly only with some temporal delay in the Detail: “I have never made a secret of it,” he says. “But it is a very private matter. At the beginning I tried to explain it to you. But no one has understood it. Therefore, I stopped at some point.”

“What happened in the last few years, is crazy,”

The visit to the Amazon was for fishermen, not a one-time thing. In 2014, he bought together with his brother a piece of Land of approximately 40 hectares. In order to protect the habitat and culture of the Shipibo and a part of the rainforest in that Region. “What happened in the last few years, is crazy,” he says, shaking his head. “Everything around you has been cleared for rice fields and oil palm plantations.” With his Initiative, he was after all, a small village with 15 to 20 residents is maintained. “We send you every month things, so they can eat and survive.”

Fischer was there, some of the Bungalows building, where friends and tourists can spend the night, to learn the lives of the Shipibo. “A Couple has because married.” The small plant is run by Locals, fishing is not involved in the day to day business. For him it became a retreat from the hustle and basketball everyday. “My brother and I try to be every year for at least two weeks there to see the people. The medicine man, an older gentleman, we are very fond of.”

No curse words

The peace and Serenity, the Indians learned fishing in the Shipibo-should it have helped in his most difficult time as a national coach, after the Failure at the Olympic Games this February. “If something happens, do not respond to the Indians of drama,” he says. “You have no curse words. You look at life differently, trying to understand things, instead of a swirl of emotions swept away. This setting appeals to me.”

fishermen tried to Pyeongchang primary, to understand what happened. Instead of making existence fears. He drew his conclusions for the world Cup, which followed soon. He had not looked to the left and to the right, but his feeling is familiar, he says. Or as he puts it: “I dug up the Tomahawk.”

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Created: 13.12.2018, 10:32 PM