„Dear dis­trib­u­tors,
Today I’d like to tell you about an abort­ed cruise, four-poster beds and tears. This will also (alas!) be the last report from Kenya. All good things come to an end but … 

Got up at six o’clock, trav­elled to the boat by bus, cruised out to sea for 30 min­utes and then the cruise was called off – it was a bit­ter blow. But it was just too windy and rainy – the pho­to Roland took speaks vol­umes. But every­one took it like a champ and returned to the hotel with heads held high. „That’s that done then.“ That’s the Ener­getix team spir­it for you! And it’s typ­i­cal of this trip and of us gen­er­al­ly: every­one helps each oth­er in joy and sad­ness. As a „non-dis­trib­u­tor“ I’ve been delight­ed and moved to watch and remem­ber from the side­lines – and see it hap­pen time and again. Some­one helps some­one else out with mos­qui­to spray, they mas­sage one anoth­er’s sprained ankles and offer med­i­cines for minor aches and pains. And do so as nat­u­ral­ly as the way they are for­ev­er exchang­ing tips and tricks on sell­ing Ener­getix prod­ucts. Read more

But wait, there’s more!

„Dear dis­trib­u­tors,

I hope you had a great week­end. We did, and what a week­end it was! Have you ever had some­one put a hot water bot­tle in your bed in a hotel? Not very like­ly — and even if you have, cer­tain­ly not in Africa. One was put in my bed at the Masai Mara Lodge, and all the oth­er mem­bers of the trav­el par­ty had the same expe­ri­ence. If I had seen it, I would of course have said „no thank you“. What man needs a hot water bot­tle in his bed – and cer­tain­ly not in sum­mer! But it’s not sum­mer here and I did­n’t see it, either, because the elec­tric­i­ty is turned off at mid­night sharp – which I did­n’t know. So to bed in the dark, looked for how to get in through the mos­qui­to net and end­ed up on a warm, wob­bling rub­ber bottle.

And I must con­fess — after I’d got over the shock and real­ized that a tor­toise had­n’t crept its way in – I found it very pleas­ant because it’s win­ter here, as I’ve already said! The next morn­ing all the dis­trib­u­tors admit­ted that the same thing had hap­pened to them.

Now enjoy some reports from our lucky win­ners and breath­tak­ing pic­tures of ani­mals and peo­ple from this fas­ci­nat­ing coun­try. Con­tin­ue reading

„Hel­lo dis­trib­u­tors or — as the Kenyans say — Jumbo!,

I’m report­ing from Masai Mara, the land of the Mas­sai, on the fourth day of the train­ing trip. You must have all dri­ven to a shop­ping mall or paid some­one a vis­it by car: 80 km, it’s no prob­lem, I’ll be there in 45 min­utes if the traf­fic’s good. That’s what we thought too! And the traf­fic was good, very light. But the road cer­tain­ly was­n’t — the last 80 of the 500 km we drove today by jeep were across a wilder­ness. A real wilder­ness! Today all the Ener­getix win­ners got 4 hours of Pow­er Plate in the jeeps. My good­ness, the way some peo­ple dri­ve –our six dri­vers were incredible!

I real­ly want­ed to talk about some­thing else today because three dis­trib­u­tors will be giv­ing you their own per­son­al impres­sions. But I’m too shak­en. So I’ll tell you quick­ly about our flat tyre: we were the last vehi­cle in the con­voy, all on our own in the Kenyan wilder­ness, in sight of ele­phants and oth­er ani­mals that we did­n’t see but which were sure to have seen us. Read more

Per­son­able extreme ath­lete Joey Kel­ly dynam­i­cal­ly show­cased ENERGETIX sportEX bracelets in an exclu­sive ENERGETIX pho­to shoot in Dort­mund on Tues­day 11 June. Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Thomas Stachel­haus and team and the very well bal­anced star got on extreme­ly well togeth­er. The pho­tos are still under wraps … but we can already reveal that Joey and sportEX make a great com­bi­na­tion. Look for­ward to the results! And maybe the sportEX bracelet will also be avail­able in a new colour this year…

Mon­day’s FROGBLOG will be report­ing on their expe­ri­ences and emo­tions. It’ll be worth check­ing out!

„Dear dis­trib­u­tor,

Day 3 of our Kenya train­ing trip is almost over. It sounds almost unbe­liev­able but it was even more event­ful than yes­ter­day! Enjoy the reports of the win­ners, some of them had tears in their eyes today.
I’d just briefly like to explain why we call it a „train­ing“ trip. There is an incred­i­ble amount to see; today there were 6 jeeps with a mot­ley col­lec­tion of dis­trib­u­tors in each and it was refresh­ing to see and hear how intense­ly they exchanged ideas, even though some of them had­n’t known each oth­er before: How do I orga­nize a fair with sev­er­al dis­trib­u­tors? How do you approach peo­ple at fairs? What aspects do you focus on when run­ning train­ing ses­sions? So what’s new in the new cat­a­logue? All of them are expe­ri­enced and suc­cess­ful dis­trib­u­tors but they are always learn­ing from each oth­er, both pro­fes­sion­al­ly and in human terms.

So we call it a train­ing trip! And the ambiance is always excep­tion­al! I hope that next time it will be togeth­er with you!

Greet­ings from the Equator.

Klaus-Peter Thiel“

Nadia Mar­ti­na, Switzerland:
„Après 100 km sur des routes bien chargées (per­son­nes sen­si­bles s’abstenir) nous arrivons au parc Nation­al du Lac Naku­ru. Un par­cours mag­nifique nous attend, dans un décor sauvage de rêve. Végé­ta­tion abon­dante par la sai­son des pluies. Arbres majestueux, cer­tains effon­drés, routes affais­sées, etc. … on imag­ine l’intensité des pluies tor­ren­tielles. Mais ensuite un rêve, une éten­due à per­le de vue dans laque­lle on décou­vre à quelques mètres de nous, un nom­bre impres­sion­nant d’animaux sauvages vivant sere­ine­ment dans cette réserve. A midi un sym­pa­thique pique-nique a été organ­isé en dessus du lac avec un point de vue mag­nifique. Nous sommes de retard à l’Hôtel, fatigués, mais avec des images inou­bli­ables dans la tête.“ Con­tin­ue reading

„It’s not easy to sum up the impres­sions of a day like today! 4 win­ners of this incred­i­ble trip have made the attempt below.

In short: we’re in Africa!

Dear dis­trib­u­tors, it’s some­thing you real­ly have to expe­ri­ence, see­ing big game at close quar­ters – and just for once I don’t mean Roland Förster! Take a look at the pictures.

Enjoy them and get enthu­si­as­tic! I per­son­al­ly hope you will soon be tak­ing part, too. Yes you can!

Klaus-Peter Thiel“

Eri­ka Ulrich, Switzer­land and Ulrike Lem­mel, Ger­many: „Es ist der 2. Tag, wir starten aus Nairo­bi. Jet­zt endlich fahren wir mit 6 Jeeps in die Wild­nis! Hur­ra. Angekom­men in der Nairo­bi Lodge mit einem atem­ber­aubend schö­nen Park! Die Lodge befind­et sich in der Wild­nis, die Tiere laufen neben unserem Sitz­platz umher. Die Giraf­fen­fam­i­lie kon­nten wir mit 3 Jun­gen haut­nah erleben! Read more

„Hel­lo dis­trib­u­tors, this is Kenya calling!

We’re report­ing from the coun­try’s cap­i­tal, Nairo­bi, to tell you about the first day of the ENERGETIX trip for the prize-win­ners in the Strong Cul­tures Com­pe­ti­tion. Tired and weary from the 10-hour flight via Abu Dhabi but hap­py and in high spir­its. The dis­trib­u­tors have used the time to talk shop with one anoth­er and to con­vince the oth­er pas­sen­gers about our jew­ellery – as always, no oppor­tu­ni­ty is spared.

We haven’t all arrived yet. One plane arrived in Frank­furt so late that 3 qual­i­fiers had to take the next flight and are still on their way, but Sjaak Janssen will tell you about that later.

What can I say? There’s a real­ly great atmos­phere, which reached a crescen­do when we were joined by 6 qual­i­fiers from our Puer­to Rican license hold­er’s team who have been here since yes­ter­day. If you know them, you’ll know what I mean!

One high­light was the lunch we had in a lodge, with at least 10 kinds of meat from the spit, siz­zled over a gigan­tic open fire. Roland Förster offi­cial­ly wel­comed every­one once again. Here on the Equa­tor, the day draws to a close very slow­ly. Inci­den­tal­ly it is cold­er here than in Europe — after all, it’s winter.

Con­tin­ue reading

The count­down has begun: on Mon­day the Kenya adven­ture begins! We are eager­ly look­ing for­ward to hear­ing what our inter­na­tion­al dis­trib­u­tors expe­ri­ence. Each day (from 17 – 25 June) they will be report­ing authen­ti­cal­ly, in their own par­tic­u­lar lan­guage, on what they see and feel – here on FROGBLOG.