GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 29 – July 4, 2015 | Page 9

ball champions, Feldmann wanted to tell everyone
that there is another beautiful game called Hurling.
He wasn’t put off by any perceived complexities, he
just liked what he saw, and more, he liked playing.
He told others.
“Back then I was in an athletics club in Bad Homburg,
my hometown [central Germany, just north of Frankfurt] and convinced some of
my team mates to get hurls
themselves and we always
used the pitch after training
for some ‘pucking’ around,”
the student explained.
Germany is renowned for
athletics and track and
field pursuits and indeed
all sports, but now a new
sport was tugging at the
heart strings of a young
German and pulling him
away from maybe standing
on the athletics podium at
an Olympic Games to following something new and
‘beautiful’.

CHANGE

Things went like this until 2011 but then, as happens
in the world of education, students graduate or go on
to other educational institutions and so the whole effort, “fell apart when the members of the “Bad Homburg
Club” started studying in different cities and moved away
from Bad Homburg.”
But all was not lost as Jacob
Feldmann had fallen for
this new sport and wouldn’t
let it slip from his grasp
that easily. He next went
to the city of Darmstadt
to study at the Technische
Universität Darmstadt but
brought hurls and sliotars
with him.
“I myself moved to Darmstadt and started studying
mechanical engineering at
the TU Darmstadt. I always
still had hurling on my mind
and still had many hurls
and sliotars from the group
of Bad Homburg.

“With just a handful of playBack home in Germany,
ers from Bad Homburg he had searched for inforwho had started to study in
mation on options in GerDarmstadt as well- we startPhoto courtesy of Jacob Feldmann.
many to attend hurling
ed again at the very bottom
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