Michal Slachtovsky J Germanus S Havlik K Farmadin(JOZEF MYTNY)

Описание: INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL FORCE
Štefan Havlík – 38 r./114 kg – MAJSTER SVETA A EU, víťaz ARNOLD CLASSIC – kulturistika amatéri
Ján Germánus – 39 r./90 kg – MAJSTER SVETA A EU - armwrestling, tlak na lavičke/bench press – 285 kg!
Michal Šlachtovský – 57 r./82 kg – MAJSTER ČSSR, SSR - karate-kumite, 5th DAN, goju ryu KARATE
Klaudio Farmadín – 35 r./85 kg – MAJSTER SSR, 3.MS, 2.ME - karate-kumite WKF
Boris Horáček – 50 r./125 kg – VICEMAJSTER ČSSR, akad.majster ČSSR, SSR – karate kumite
Milan Kopriva – 54 r./83 kg – akad.majster ČSSR, majster SSR – karate kumite

I´ve been watching to the the development/ progress of my colleague and friend of sport karate/Michal Šlachtovského more than 13 years and wondering about that more and more.
I don´t mean his sports/competitive development/progress but its transition from sport to the essence/base of the karate. It means practicing for yourself.
This is something appropriate to the age, experience and self realization and something trying to find other values than those sports ones (results, travelling, titles, money ... ... ... fame).
The substantial change for him came after his second visit to the island of Okinawa (cradle of the traditional karate) where during an ordinary karate workout he met relatively unknown master Nagada who was 30 years older and handled Michal as he wanted with minimum effort and smiling. And more Michal tried to resist that bigger problems with the master Nagada had.
That was a moment when Michal learnt/understood that there is something else/different than just visible outside muscles ......, and it really works!. That was a gateway to his new tour/do which he passed almost alone (despite the fact he quite often consulted that new way with sensei/Master Ogawa – the first teacher of the slovak karateka) in addition to a couple of friends from his younger times. Naturally all that way was influenced by his study of books, videos and internet.
At the beginning I was very aloof and skeptical about that "NEW WAY"........, I just was no table to imagine, understand or recognize it. However, change of my mind case quite quickly as I felt physically it workded – this new path/method of exercise. After all those years spent with Michal in the sportive karate I knew very well what is normal/regular and what not (we started together to train in 1977) and what can be expected from him. It didn´t take long time I started to belive in this new way too.
And I wasn't alone as plenty of different top athletes, coaches and doctors discussed about that with him about that new concept of breathing ( for example Zdeno Chára, Michal Beran, Michal Handzuš, Rado Somík, Ján Filc, MUDr.Vladimír Hostýn, Mudr.Dalibor Jančovič). He has passed also several consultations, trainings and meetings with the representatives of police and army not just from Slovakia but also from abroad.
I've seen many times what he was able to do with colleagues from karate and budo sports and then I got the idea for a new trial. I wanted to see how is he able to handle some top sportsmen having really incredible strength, muscles and top sport results.
We were happy to be able to manage the meeting/training with real champions – Jan Germánus (armwrestling and powerlifting), Štefan Havlík (bodybuilding) and Klaudio Farmadín (sports karate).
How it all turned out you can see in this video.

Boris Horáček, VR FIT PLUS

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