Regional conditions can promote certain skills. “Where the wild things live” is – if you believe the children’s book of the same name – all big, cuddly monsters with horns and a penchant for scuffles and lots of noise. Probably due to the environment. If they really existed, they would probably be regular world champions in wrestling or even in noise, like the members of some real peoples who play actual sports. The Austrian himself uses his mountains, for example, to ski down them as quickly as possible on two narrow skis. In Hawaii and Portugal there are gifted surfers and some Mexicans jump off high rocks into the water exceptionally well. Probably also because Acapulco is the Mecca of all those who like to do it for their life.
On Sunday, gymnast Lukas Dauser from Unterhaching won silver at the World Championships on parallel bars after winning a silver medal at the Olympic Games. He is not the first world-class gymnast from the community on the southern outskirts of the state capital and will probably not be the last. The question arises as to why the best German acrobats keep coming back from here or at least – as in the case of Dauser, who was born in Glonner – lay the foundation for their world gymnastics career in Unterhaching. Could this be because there is a large manufacturer of mustard in the community? Maybe the creamy sausage spice makes the joints particularly supple and the giant rim – freshly lubricated – a little rounder than with athletes who always just squeeze ketchup on their sausage.
But the mustard is probably not the secret recipe for all the Nguyens, Dausers and Remutas who conquer the world of gymnastics from TSV Unterhaching. The reason is more likely to be the outstanding promotion of athletes from an early age, in a department that is carefully managed by division manager Oskar Paulicks. And the Unterhachinger Sportarena offers the athletes almost as perfect conditions as the Atlantic swell offers the Portuguese surfers.