First throws on the silo tarpaulin: This is how the 50-year Grafinger judo success story began

Created: 03/12/2022 16:27

By: Michael Seeholzer

Those were the days: For the first anniversary of the judo department, the Grafinger judoka organized a cup tournament in 1973 in what was then the Grafinger town hall.

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Rummaging in the memory box: How the 50-year history of Grafing's judoka began in a cellar near Pfaffing.

Grafing – The Grafinger judoka is not easily fooled.

Her team includes regional and national champions.

But they couldn't do anything against an opponent either: the corona virus was stronger.

And so it happened that the 50th anniversary of the judo department of TSV Grafing took a back seat.

Reason enough for Kurt Tschauner to rummage through his memory box.

There he keeps newspaper clippings and reports from the early days of the judoka.

Tschauner was the founding team of the Grafinger judoka together with Willy Wunderer and Werner Utz (now deceased) and still remembers the old days well.

He grew up in Grafing and later in Ebrach, just across the eastern border of the district (municipality of Pfaffing), where his father bought the old school in 1963.

And so there was a connection to Pfaffing, which meant that the Grafinger judo department basically had its beginnings there, and it happened like this:

First attempts at the Ebrach school

"Not far from our 'old school', a new building was built, the new school, which was only in operation for almost ten years," recalls the former police officer, whom many Grafingers know because they got their "bicycle license" from him.

Until his retirement, Tschauner was a traffic educator at the Ebersberg police station for decades, and as such was very popular with the children, who fondly remember him even as adults.

Around 1971 the new school in Ebrach was closed and the students had to go to school in either Albaching or Pfaffing.

The first judo training falls during this time.

"Since we didn't have any training facilities and no occupancy in Grafing at the beginning, in 1971, I asked the municipality in Pfaffing whether we could use the sports room in the basement of the school building for judo training," says Tschauner.

The community was open to this idea and so the young people enthusiastic about judo drove there for months to train in the basement.

On old coconut mats, which were covered with a silo tarpaulin borrowed from his father-in-law, Tschauner tried to pass on the judo basics he had learned from Gerd Enders with the Nuremberg police.

The hall was freezing cold and so were the showers.

Anyone who knows Kurt knows, however, that socializing was cultivated from the start.

"After training, the inn in Ebrach was our club bar."

Money was collected at the regulars' table

A kind of sponsorship already existed at that time.

It was the "Judo Sparsau" who was diligently fed by the old Ebrachern at the regulars' table.

Then the judoka made their first big hit: "In 1972 we received the approval from TSV Grafing to use the old gymnasium on Jahnstrasse," Tschauner recalls.

The hall also served as a carnival stronghold and the judoka returned the favor on such occasions with sporting demonstrations.

The judo department of TSV Grafing has existed since 1972, which also explains the anniversary date.

During this time, Paul Barth visited the Grafinger Dojo, who won the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

In the meantime, the number of sporting successes of the Grafinger judo department has grown to an almost unmanageable number.

Someone who started judo here as a ten-year-old made it to the British runners-up and European police champion: Christian Sebald was a member of the national squad and the Bundesliga team at TSV Großhadern in the 1980s.

The Grafingen police superintendent was a dog handler at the Kripo Erding and died in a mountain accident in 2016.

In his honor and to recognize his achievements as a coach and mentor in Grafing, the current training facility in the street "Am Stadion" Christian-Sebald-Halle was named.

Legendary enthusiasm for the sport of judo

The judoka had converted the hall, a former training pool, into a dojo with enormous personal effort and under the direction of Sebald.

Word had long since got around in the judo scene, as the then district functionary Karlheinz Armbrust put it on the 30th anniversary: ​​"I've never experienced such enthusiasm as in Grafing in any Upper Bavarian club." was worth it, and today TSV Grafing has a judo department that has earned a great reputation,” says Kurt Tschauner happily.

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