HEZI – LORTU

Publisher DEIA, Jan. 20, 2011





"CAPTURING the free with what's in chains". That is how Rodríguez de la Fuente defined, in sublime way, one of his biggest passions, the art of falconry. Such art has been declared at the end of the last year by UNESCO as Immaterial Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a motion of twelve countries: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Mongolia, Czech Republic, Spain, Slovakia, Morocco, France, Belgium, Korea and Saudi Arabia.

Although it is not acquainted with certainty, it is believed that falconry begins its art more than 4,000 years ago, in the Asiatic steppes, by the pure human observation of the animal’s behavior. Something similar that happen with the wolf, although, however, the techniques of taming of the mammals and the birds are diametrically the opposite. As well as UNESCO says, "Falconry is one of the most ancient relations between men and birds, adapting traditional activity that uses brats to capture preys in her natural habitant". Is the result and accurate reflection of the human’s restlessness to avail oneself from his surroundings for its survival, being in the Middle Ages when this art enjoyed a bigger plethora. And much has developed from its beginnings to a material level, techniques of training or technologically that falconry is, nowadays, one of the most fascinating arts that God forbid the man had known.

Tells the legend that little Temujin ( 1162-1227 ), in plain desert along with his brother, attended the capture of a jungle fowl by a goshawk and Temujin came up with the idea of making use of his own hair to fill the bird's leg with loops. They hid and when the rapacious return he got stuck in one of them. The young brothers already had the perfect weapon to subsist.

We have to leave the evident and give things a second thought. That way success is guaranteed, even if you have to conquer the largest empire of all times. We only have to conquer the fear of one and dare.

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PIZTIEN LAGUNA

March 12, 2010


Next Sunday, March 14, marks the 30th anniversary of the tragic plane crash in Shaktoolik, Alaska, on board, Felix Samuel Rodriguez de la Fuente, born precisely the 14th of March in Poza de la Sal, in the providence of Burgos and two of his colleagues, Theordore Roa and Alberto Marino. Isn’t strange how coincidence can occur sometimes in life. Many of the most cherished memories of my childhood are related in some way with music. Everything began on Friday night, after the mandatory news, suddenly you could fill the kitchen was over flooded with the first notes of the theme which was absolutely shocking; “El hombre y la Tierra “ (The man and the earth) was beginning. Rarely have I seen a melody so perfectly summarizes the essence of the serie to which it belongs. After the music of the maestro Antón García Abril images began appearing on screen and finally emerges the well known and admired voice of Dr. Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente. Very few know that “The friend of the animals” had a degree in medicine but instead he became a self taught naturalist and ethologist. A convinced falconer, Felix recovered the forgotten medieval art based on manuscripts and treaties of that period, which explains the basics in “capture the free with chained”. But what really launched him to fame was his television serie. Rodriguez de la Fuente, thanks to “El hombre y la Tierra “made us consent of something so forgotten by society back then, nature in our homes. Today, thanks to him, we all know what a dormouse is, the sound of the wolf’s howl or the meaning of the words “ecological pyramid” or “ecosystem”. Felix awoke in our society a new awareness that has been essential in protecting what we still have alive. When someone knows how to reach the public, manage, arrange and create something new and different, success is guaranteed, even above all criticism, that’s no miracle, it is just pure talent.


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