Because of their 40 years of volunteering for the Dutch and international Tai Chi Chuan community
Rob and Erich Völke received this gift in addition to their certificate.
The sword belt decorations are different in design for each brother. The Völke brothers forged their own swords.
The engravings, handles and pommels have got images falcon and dragon.
In particular, these embroideries are inspired by these images.
Sword belt decoration Erich Völke (standing left)
The flying dragon is the important image in Erichs sword fighting style.
His sword charter has dragon shapes and now so does the sword belt now.
The taichi diagram in holding ‘late spring’ with over it the constellation ‘Dragon’
as you can find it in the firmament.
Sword belt decoration Rob Völke (standing right)
The falcon flies into the symbolic representations:
The Taiji, drawn 1000 years ago by Zhou Dunyi,
The Tai-ji-tu, eleventh century Chinese diagram of the supreme ultimate.
Above that the constellation Ulsar Major: an important postures in the tai chi chuan sword form: ‘literary star’. This Ulsar Major constellation is also engraved on Rob Volke’s taichi-sword blade.