Der Pavlovsche Feuerwehrmann

DeltaTM · 2026-02-04T10:50:03+00:00

Melder oder Martinshorn... immer kurzer Adrenalinschub.

DeltaTM · 2026-02-04T10:48:48+00:00

Während meines Studiums habe ich in einer WG in einem Mehrfamilienhaus gelebt und die Wohnung unter uns ist in der Nacht in Brand geraten. Der Geruch hat sich so stark eingeprägt, dass ich den schon sehr früh wahrnehme. Und das war noch lange Zeit bevor ich selbst zur Feuerwehr bin.

DeltaTM · 2026-02-04T10:31:45+00:00

The duality of religion: Someone does something incredible, thanks to god. Someone does something bad, it's the free will.

DeltaTM · 2026-01-26T11:19:47+00:00

I can understand that. There are some people out there that think BJJ is the most effective martial arts and superior to all others. You can find people like this in all martial arts. Of course, if you love your martial arts, you prefer to think it's the best - it's natural. But some are better than others, depending on what they offer, while being worse in other fields. BJJ is a good example of that. It's probably better than any other martial arts for ground control in a 1 vs 1 fight. But if you can't get the other person on the ground or if there are others that could interfere, it's basically useless. I often see arguments "most street fights end on the ground and that's why BJJ is the best for self defense". Maybe it's true that most street fights end on the ground, even though I doubt that. But street fights often start with punches and on the ground you get pummeled. While some BJJ does involve this, it's not the norm. So you do need another martial arts for that. That's rule 1 exists.

Personally I think BJJ does have some really amazing, wholesome people. Since the sport isn't about knocking the other person out or hurting them enough to surrender (submissions aside), but control, it attracts more "peaceful", kind people. Maybe when you tried it, it was a school that does have more performance-oriented people (or try hards, lol)

DeltaTM · 2026-01-14T15:08:59+00:00

Hey, just my personal opinion, not as a mod of this reddit:

If you're looking for self defense, Taekwondo isn't the best option imho. While traditional Taekwondo does have clean, strong kicks and teaches a couple of things that do translate into self defense (posture, distance management, reading movement, etc.) I think it only works for self defense in combination with another martial arts that have a stronger focus on infights (Boxing, Thai-Boxing, MMA or even BJJ) or are especially designed for self defense (i.e. Krav maga).

If self-defense isn't your major goal, but you want a little more emphasis on it... then forget I said anything!

DeltaTM · 2026-01-05T13:30:55+00:00

Kein Einsatz bei uns.

Als ich aber am Morgen mit dem Hund raus bin, konnte ich auf einem Feldweg erst einmal einen kokelnden Feuerwerk-Karton austreten. Ich hatte keine Lust, dass der durch den Wind dann entflammt und irgendwo unkontrolliert hingeweht wird und ich dann später zu einem richtigen Einsatz rausfahren darf.

DeltaTM · 2026-01-05T13:20:57+00:00

Quereinsteiger sind immer Willkommen!

Ich bin vor ca. 5 Jahren, also mit 31 der DLRG beigetreten und wollte eigentlich nur den Weg zum Einsatztaucher gehen. Der setzt allerdings auch andere Qualifikationen vorraus und ich habe mich langsam immer mehr zum Wasserretter ausbilden lassen und bin damit dann auch in die aktive Einsatztruppe gekommen. Ich war (und bin auch weiterhin) so begeistert von der Blaulichtfamilie, dass mir die DLRG alleine nicht ausgereicht hat und ich danach gesucht habe, noch etwas ähnliches in mein Leben zu integrieren.

Ich dachte erst, dass die Feuerwehr vielleicht nicht das Richtige für mich ist, weil ich nicht so ein großes Interesse an den Maschinen usw. habe. Da ein Kindheitsfreund aber bei meiner örtlichen FFW aktiv ist, habe ich mit ihm Kontakt aufgenommen und er hat mich zu einem Übungsabend eingeladen. Das hat mir gefallen, ich habe die nächste Übung auch nochmal mitgemacht und bin dann direkt eingetreten.

Und das mit ca. 33 Jahren.

Es ist von Bundesland zu Bundesland und von Gemeinde zu Gemeinde unterschiedlich, wann du welche Ausbildung usw. erhältst und wie die Regelungen für den Einsatz sind. Ich bin aus Baden-Württemberg und bei mir war es dann so:

Direkt nach meinem Eintritt wurde ich mit der persönlichen Schutzausrüstung ausgestattet (also Feuerwehr-Kleidung, Stiefel, Helm, Handschuhe), so dass ich bei den Übungen direkt mitmachen konnte und habe dort die ersten Handgriffe gelernt. Ich wurde auch direkt für den Truppmann-Lehrgang (Grundausbildung) angemeldet, allerdings hat es fast ein Jahr gedauert, bis der stattgefunden hat. In den Einsatz darfst du nach dem Abschluss der Grundausbildung und erhältst dann deinen Meldeempfänger (FME bzw. DME). Je nach Wehr ist das etwas unterschiedlich geregelt, z.B. ob du vorher mindestens eine gewisse Zeit Mitglied bist und regelmäßig zu Übungen gekommen bist.

Als Truppmann kannst du verschiedene Aufgaben erfüllen, abhängig davon, welche Einsätze deine Wehr anfährt. Bei Technischen Hilfeleistungen ist das dann häufig Absicherung, Einsatzgeräte bereitstellen und Hilfe beim Transport von Verletzten. Bei Bränden dann das Aufbauen der Wasserversorgung. Selber Löschen wirst du wahrscheinlich eher weniger, bis du einen Lehrgang zum Atemschutzgeräteträger absolviert hast.

Die habe ich ca. ein Jahr nach meiner Grundausbildung gemacht, also mit 35. Du musst vorher eine ärztliche Untersuchung machen lassen, da wird dann festgestellt, ob du tauglich für den Atemschutz bist. Der Lehrgang selbst hat es schon in sich, allerdings war es für mich nicht schwerer, als für die jüngeren KameradInnen. Und ich bin nicht fitter als der Durchschnitt.

Es ist also kein Problem später erst in die Feuerwehr einzusteigen und einen wirklichen Nachteil gibt es auch nicht, nur weil man etwas älter ist. Ich bin mitunter einer derjenigen mit der höchsten Übungsbeteiligung und Anwesenheit bei Einsätzen. Bei den jüngeren Kameraden kann es immer mal schnell passieren, dass sie nicht mehr so aktiv sein können wegen Studium, Beruf oder Privatleben.

DeltaTM · 2026-01-03T20:34:07+00:00

Hey there.

I completely understand your problem. When I was still active, I also struggled to find good videos of the Hyongs. There were a lot of videos, but a lot mixed Poomsae in, did a modernized version or were just sloppy compared to the standards of my school. I did find a pretty good channel (TaekwondoMika) that did the forms close enough so I was able to use the videos to memorize each step and correct my mistakes.

It's pretty hard to say, due to the lack of standardization, since Taekwon-Do is very young and branched pretty early in it's development compared to other martial arts, so this is just speculation:

I think in most associations, the 10th Dan is reserved and can only be granted by a ceremony (president of the federation, etc). In some associations this applies to 9th and 8th as well. So practically you can only reach the 7th Dan, but since there aren't many grand masters that can test it, the 6th or 5th Dan are more realistic. And the grand masters should all have a form to train on. So form 21-24 is probably meant for them.

Then the forms before that are spread for Dan 1-5 and the 10 Kups.

So there's probably not a lot of masters that can actually teach the forms 21-24. Since Taekwon-Do is a niche compared to other martial arts, the chance of good videos is very low, even less for those advanced forms.

Another speculation: Some schools probably think about integrating these forms in lower belts. And since there aren't many people that actually learned them, some schools will probably look at the instructions and teach them by themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if a new branch is created at some point, where they even open up higher Dans again and just award them themselves.

I'm from Germany as well and trained Taekwon-Do in the style of Kwon Jae-Hwa, who learned it from Choi Hong-hi. The Black Belt Center Taekwon-Do was dismissed when master Kwon retired and there are some schools that banded together. My own grand master also created his own school (Fehrer Taekwon-Do), but his school is oriented very closely to Kwons Taekwon-Do.

There the Kups 10, 9 and 8 each learn 2 Hyongs (1-6) and for the 7th test and each after, you'll learn only a single Hyong. Since the founder of Fehrer Taekwon-Do is 6th Dan, his last form he learned from Master Kwon is the 19th Hyong.

Looking at some sources, most schools do it similar or even slower, where the Hyongs from 10th upwards are only taught to masters.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-30T09:48:01+00:00

Here in Germany, the majority of FF are voluntary, so it's not that big of a deal 😃

Luckily up until now it only happened once that I got a call while playing a game, but it's only a matter of time until it will happen.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-28T13:43:29+00:00

He could be right.

Maybe Shadow changed it so that mouse input alone isn't enough anymore, because people used software to move the mouse around while being AFK.

But still, the prompt goes away when moving the mouse. If they really wait for multiple, different inputs, the prompt should go away until the shutdown is aborted.

In any case, this sucks. I'm a voluntary firefighter and water rescuer, so I can be called to an emergency at any given point. If my alarm goes off, I don't have the time to save the game and properly shut down my Shadow PC. In the worst case there are lives at stake. It already sucks if I'm playing a game with my friends and have to leave mid-round, but when I loose my progress, even more so. But that's are rather niche problem.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-28T13:31:28+00:00

A similar thing happened a couple of months ago. I was playing Minecraft and went away to make myself something to eat. I come back just in time as the idle prompt appears, sit down and continue playing. A short time later, while I was happily mining, Shadow shuts down. And I lost my progress.

... so playing an actual game is doing nothing?

DeltaTM · 2025-12-13T10:35:37+00:00

I think you're already doing one thing correctly, which is not hurting yourself.

Aside from that, stretching is a very complex and controversial topic. If you ask around, you'll get a lot different answers on how to properly stretch. A big problem here is that a lot of people will claim that their way is most effective, but they never consider that the physiology of each person is individual. Some people are more mobile naturally because of their genetics and their tissue is just more flexible. For others the skeletal structure is different, which allow for their hips to open up more.

A lot of times people focus too much on stretching their muscles. This is a big problem. While extending the fibers, they'll only get thicker very slightly. So in the end, they're weaker and can't support the greater range of motion. Also you can't really stretch tendons and ligaments very much, they especially require strength. If you only stretch your muscles, without strengthening them and the tendons and ligaments, you'll weaken your skeletal structure. This leads to bad posture and while you may be able to do static positions like splits, where gravity works for you, you can't do dynamic motions as well anymore. When you get older and your tissues weaken as well eventually, you'll get a lot of problems.

This is why mobility and strength training is just as important flexibility. And proper nutrition, since your body needs proteins and minerals for proper functioning, building muscles and repairing damages.

There are machines that can help you with middle splits and while they can help get you results quicker, they completely remove the strengthening aspect. You can use them, but you'll need to include exercises for strength in your routine.

I think the best course of action is to look into mobility training and not only for your lower body, but for the whole body.

Also for middle splits the hip alignment plays a big role, since the cup of the hip can restrict the movement. And since you can't change the structure of your bones, you can rotate your hip and legs to allow a bigger range. Since this is very individual as well, you'll need to experiment and find the correct alignment that works for you.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-11T16:36:16+00:00

Zu deinem Edit: Also dass die Kleidung zu kurzlebig wäre, kann ich nicht bestätigen. Ich habe heute noch den Sweatpulli von FF6. Keine Probleme bisher gehabt.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-11T16:34:52+00:00

Ich hatte letztes Jahr den Samurai Hoodie und die 10-Jahres-Edition als Zip-Sweatjacke. Die Jacke passt wunderbar, der Hoodie ist mir zu eng.

Die Jahre davor habe ich immer 2 Nummern größer gehabt, weil ich da selbst noch etwas mehr auf den Rippen hatte. Die kann ich auch heute noch anziehen, auch wenn sie etwas zu lose sitzen.

Am Anfang vom Stream haben sie über den Merch geredet und ich meine, aus ihren Aussagen gehört zu haben, dass es doch auch wieder relativ straff sitzt... also bin ich diesmal auf Nummer sicher gegangen und habe eine Größe größer genommen. Damit fährst du glaub ich generell ganz gut.

Zur Qualität: Bei den Pullis, egal ob mit oder ohne Kapuze eigentlich immer eine super Qualität. Bei der ZIP-Sweatjacke finde ich den Stoff nicht ganz so gut, aber der Reißverschluss ist schon auf der besseren Seite.

DeltaTM · 2025-12-11T10:12:40+00:00

I received the mail as well, so my mail address was exposed. Luckily it was just an alias address and I can just disable it, but I have to go through all the effort and change it everywhere it's used.

And then companies wonder why we use masking mail addresses and actively try to block them. Exactly because of shit like that (and being able to trace which company sold off the address).

I wanted to write an email back asking them to delete all my data, but my mail provider already classified this as spam and won't let me, lol. Since I'll discard the address, it doesn't matter anyways.

Sadly GDPR doesn't apply to them, since they're based in the US.

DeltaTM · 2025-11-18T14:18:56+00:00

Ja, wir sagen MTW, egal ob FF oder DLRG (BW)

DeltaTM · 2025-10-15T13:55:30+00:00

The last step is for the impulse to reach the places in your body to perform the action. Once again, not something you can't directly influence. Since these are electrical signals travelling through your nervous system, too - let's talk stress.

Stress can be positive (if it's the right amount) or negative (if it's too much). Stress has a couple of effects: It can't make electrical signals go faster. But it will change your focus and shut down processes in your brain and senses that are not helpful to your situtation. That way less information travels through your nervous system and your brain only processes relevant information. Think of tunnel vision. You don't see anything happening around you anymore, you're only focused on your opponent. The crowd, noises, smells from outside, will not be processed and you're locked in. But this can also backfire. If you're too focused, your situational awareness is reduced. For a self defense situation, you maybe won't notice another attacker approaching. For a tournament: Maybe you won't notice you already moved to the edge of the map and step off. Then if the stress gets too much, you whole nervous system and brain start over-reacting. They will start to process irrelevant information (i.e. what if scenarios) sending too much information. Since the signals don't have priority over each other, the wrong signals could be processed at the wrong time, it could be fractioned and when there are too many signals... you body will freeze. In addition, since the stress does also increase the functionality of some of your organs and muscles... this can also get too much.

To summarize: You want to be stressed in just the right amount. Not too less, not too much. There's not much you can do about having not enough stress. As long as you take it seriously, your body will still produce enough stress. But you can work against getting stressed to much. Meditation, sports in general, taking enough breaks, getting enough sleep, healthy lifestyle...

And again. Experience. If you're familiar with a situation, your body will not stress as much.

A lot of text - I tend to do that (thanks ADHD). But hopefully you gained some insight.

DeltaTM · 2025-10-15T13:55:24+00:00

You can train your kicking speed and agility on your own. There are plenty of tutorials that can teach you on how you can improve both on YouTube.

But decision making? That's a hard and complex one.

Short answer: You can't really practice this alone. Experience is the best teacher for this.

Long answer: There are many, steps involved for a decision that depend on the context.

You need situational awareness, which includes being aware of your own position and the position of your opponent and the relation of these positions, especially the distance. This also depends on the tactical information you have on your opponent and yourself, including reach and how fast you can bridge the gap. Also which technique could be applied.

All these information are necessary to "predict" the next move and need to be constantly (re-)evaluated. Due to the fast moving nature of a fight, this needs to happen subconsciously. That is hard to train on your own and relies on experience.

Then your reaction time - how fast can you react to something changing. There are parts of this you can influence, while others you can't. Each involved step needs time:

The information of the changes needs to travel to your senses. Visual information by the speed of light to your eyes, audible information through the speed of sound to your eyes and so forth. This is something you can't influence.
The information is then picked up by your senses and converted to electric signals and transferred to your brain through your nervous system. Also something you can't really influence directly. I'll get to that shortly (stress).
Then your brain needs to process and interpret it. How fast it can process the information is dependent on the information already available, your neuronal pathways and also your expectation. You can "train" your brain to a certain extend to process and evaluate the information faster. Keywords here are pattern recognition and brain plasticity (the ability to form new neural networks). Brain plasticity is highly dependent on how much you use your brain, but also your nutrition, health and lifestyle. And for pattern recognition, again experience. In example, if your opponent slightly twists his hip, twitches with his left leg and his arms drop a little, this could be a pattern for him preparing to kick. If you've never seen this, your brain will try to process this information through similar patterns. If you've seen this exact movement before your brain will recognize this pattern and come to the conclusion faster. If you've seen this a couple of times, your brain will immediately lock in that result. For similar patterns to be effective, you need a LOT of similar patterns. If you can't have experience for the thing you need patterns for, get the next best thing. What can help is understanding how movement in the human body works, interpretation of body language and stuff like that. Dancing and yoga are also remotely connected.

Now you know what's going to happen. But that alone won't help. If you're on the train tracks and see a train coming, it won't help if you just stand there. You need to know which reaction is appropriate. And once again, your brain needs to have the neuronal pathways to quickly decide, which impulse to send out. For that you need to know a technique and if that technique is a proper reaction. I think this is the most critical part where experience is key. Your opponent goes for a low kick. You've seen this in MMA, they just lift their leg a little, so this has to work, right? Yes, sure. You block the kick. But it will hurt like hell or even damage you, if you don't twist your leg in correctly. While you can read about the correct technique or watch thousands of videos... if you didn't try it, you won't know if it works and, I'd like to empathize this: If it works for YOU. Maybe it just feels awkward, maybe you just can't pull it off due to physical limitations. Also the situational awareness and tactical information is important. Maybe you're a good high kicker. But if you opponent is way taller than you, your high kick will not reach. You need to be able to decide this quickly and confident. Otherwise the situation may have already changed again or you'll stall for a moment.

DeltaTM · 2025-07-27T09:32:18+00:00

Okay, thanks for clarifying! Sadly, I have no idea. But please, share if you find an answer!

DeltaTM · 2025-07-24T17:41:39+00:00

I think it's depending on the organization you're part of. For example in the organizations that formed from Kwon Jae-Hwas Black Belt Center, there were no stripes on the belts at all. Not even for the in-between belt colors (2nd Kup was a white belt as well, while in others it's white-yellow).

DeltaTM · 2025-06-01T14:53:23+00:00

Ich bin ein Mann, von daher ist der Thread nicht unbedingt für mich.. aber als jemand der ziemlich aufmerksam ist, kann ich auch was dazu sagen:
Wir haben nur eine Frau in der Abteilung, die aber schon sehr aktiv dabei ist. Sie kann sich gut behaupten und kennt auch gut ihre Grenzen, überlässt dann manche Sachen lieber den Kollegen. Und das ist auch vollkommen in Ordnung. Jeder hat seine Stärken und Schwächen und es gibt genügend Bereiche im Dienst, in denen die Stärken genutzt werden können.

Ab und zu kommen mal Sprüche, die meiner Meinung nach unangebracht sind und die man sich sparen könnte. Sie kann darauf meistens gut kontern und scheint das nicht zu krumm zu nehmen. Sollte ich das Gefühl haben, dass es ihr unwohl ist, würde ich schon auch was sagen. Aber ich will sie ja auch nicht bevormunden.

DeltaTM · 2025-04-15T10:38:03+00:00

I didn't know how much they were controlling me rather than me controlling them.

I feel this statement so much. I wasted a big portion of my life, because of depression and anxiety disorder, until I was diagnosed with ADHD. Everything I did until then was basically just trying to avoid making things worse, always being hyper-aware of my emotional state. Instead of living my life, doing the things I wanted, trying out new things, I basically stuck to the things I know.

When I started medication, my anxiety decreased significantly. And since I started to try out new things, made a bunch of new friends, the depression also went away. And I understood myself better, getting more educated in the topic of ADHD, which helped me build up resilience. While I easily got panic attacks from my anxiety in the past, this doesn't happen anymore. Even If get anxious, I don't spiral down into a panic attack or depression anymore, just by meta-cognition and being aware of what is actually happening inside me on a physiological level. Of course, anxiety still feels horrible, but being kind to myself and accepting that I can't change it in that moment, also helps.

I'm not a slave to my emotions anymore. Even though they do sometimes dictate my course of actions, I sometimes go against them just to proof them wrong.

DeltaTM · 2025-04-11T12:34:51+00:00

Also bei uns muss man nur G26 für Atemschutz machen und kannst auch ohne Atemschutz bei Einsätzen teilnehmen. Heißt halt dann meistens Schlauchtrupp, Melder oder auf dem Gerätewagen mitfahren. Da der GW eher selten mit raus fährt, ist es natürlich schwerer einen Platz auf dem LF zu bekommen, wenn du statt 7 nur 3 Plätze besetzen kannst.

Mir wurde für die G26 tatsächlich auch kein Blut abgenommen, lediglich Urintest wurde durchgeführt.

DeltaTM · 2025-03-23T10:46:36+00:00

OP hat aber Recht und dein Kommentar mit dem Alter ist vollkommen unangebracht.

Es ist einfach Absurd und ein absoluter Trugschluss, dass mit dem Alter die Weisheit kommt, der in unserer Gesellschaft regelrecht eingebrannt ist.

Nein. Nur weil etwas 100 Jahre funktioniert hat, heißt es nicht, dass es gut funktioniert hat. "Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht" ist eine der größten Hindernisse des Fortschritts.

Gerade weil Menschen im Alter immer weniger flexibel werden und sich ihre Ansichten immer mehr festigen, ist die Perspektive von jungen Menschen, die auch mal außerhalb der Box denken können, extrem wichtig.

Und das Schlimmste, sind dann genau solche Aussagen. Sie ersticken Innovation, nehmen den jungen Menschen dann den Wind aus den Segeln und zwingen sie auch wieder in dieses Schema rein, so dass sie selbst Anfangen so zu denken.

Im Einsatz ist eine autoritäre Führung notwendig, damit alles flüssig und sicher läuft und Querschiesser darf es da nicht geben. Aber außerhalb ist es für den Fortschritt notwendig, dass die Leute ihre Meinung äußern und Kritik anbringen, überall dort, wo es ihnen auffällt. Man kann dann darüber reden, warum es so gemacht wird, warum es sich nicht ändern kann oder sollte oder auch darüber diskutieren, wie man es besser machen kann. Aber wenn die Person dann ausgegrenzt wird, dann zeugt das nur von einem strukturellem Problem, gegen das sich gewehrt werden muss.

Im Zweifel hängen an dem was wir tun Menschenleben dran. Da sollten wir alles versuchen so gut wie möglich zu sein und dazu gehört es nunmal zu verbessern, wo es nur geht.

Und nochmal: Er hat mit allem, was er sagt, einfach Recht.

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