Sándor “Nyiba” Németh’s Sports Achievements

I was born in Kenyeri (Vas county, Hungary) on 31st January 1957. My mother was a seamstress and my father, a farmer. We are five brothers and sisters. I attended the elementary school in Kenyeri and I qualified as an electrician in Gyõr city. I took the A-level examination in Jedlik Ányos Secondary School, Budapest. I completed the Secondary School for Tourism and Catering. After that, I obtained a trainer’s and later a sports organizer’s degree in the Further Education Institute of the College of Physical Education (TFTI) as well as a specialized trainer’s degree in wrestling at the University of Physical Education.

My sports career began in Dózsa Sports Club in Gyõr, in 1972. I moved to Budapest in 1975 and I registered in Csepel Sports Club. It was at my age of twelve when I became involved in music. First I had drum lessons; later I played the guitar. Sport and music have always got on well together in my life. I played in the Meteor band from 1970; we won the orchestra festival twice. During my military service from 1976 till 1978, I competed in the Budapesti Honvéd Sports Club (BHSE). I became a member of the national freestyle wrestling team in 1977. I represented our home country in 26 international competitions as a competitor and a coach, enhancing the reputation of Hungarian wrestling with valuable places at the Olympics, international championships, and European championships.

I met my wife in 1977, a university professor with three degrees, who speaks five foreign languages, and we got married in 1979. Our daughter, Nicolette Nicé Németh was born on 23rd May 1983; she took a final examination in the USA and in Hungary, was awarded a grant, and presently studies psychology at a university in London.

In October 1986, I signed on to the KSV Elgershausen Club (Federal Republic of Germany) as a coach. I managed the preparation of the freestyle wrestling team there and I made the team rise from the 2nd Bundesliga into the 1st. We won 140 matches out of 145. In 1989, I was appointed to be the manager, then the head coach of the Hungarian Freestyle Wrestling Team. I functioned as a coach of the federation from 1991 and I did wrestling instruction and replacement education extending to the whole territory of Hungary. At the same time, I represented Hungary for Magister Food GmbH. I was requested by the Hungarian Wrestling Federation to make a three-part educational film with the title “Freestyle Wrestling Techniques 1–2–3”. Later on I also made the educational films “Magic Techniques”, then “Champions’ Arsenal”, “Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling”, and “Improving Special Wrestling Strength and Stamina”. These films were bought by FILA and they got to a hundred countries. In my last documentary, “In Black and White”, I commemorated the legendary freestyle wrestler József Balla.

I was made the manager of the Wrestling Section of Vasas SC in 1992. In the next year, I was charged with a commission of four years of being the head coach of the Hungarian national freestyle wrestling team. I have been teaching the theory and practice of wrestling in instructor training and in the major of coaching at the correspondence course of the Further Education Institute of the University of Physical Education since 1996 until today.

My achievements in competitions: Junior, Adult Hungarian Champion, seven times 2nd; Team Championship, seven times 1st and 2nd, 3rd; World Championship 6th; European Championship 4th, 5th, 6th; Olympics 5th, 8th; European Championship Ranking, 4th; World Championship Ranking, 5th; International-level Sportsman; World Senior Wrestling Games, 1st; World Senior Championship, twice 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th; European Judo Championship 3rd; Lodz Grand Prix 1st; ZeeLen Bider 3rd; Czech Grand Prix 1st; Macedonian Grand Prix 1st; INTRANSMAS Cup 2nd; Yasar Dogu 2nd; Roger Caulon 2nd; Cuban Grand Prix 4th; Liberation Memorial Competition 3rd; German Grand Prix 4th; Medved 2nd. As a recognition of my sports achievements, I was awarded the Order of Merit in wrestling and I was given the bronze degree of FILA. For my poems and songs about sport and for popularizing the idea of the Olympics, I was granted the silver badge of the Olympic Academy.

I founded the De-Pression band in December 1996; I function as its lyricist, composer, and drummer and I sing and play the guitar in a couple of songs. The band has published six albums up to now: “A Motorcycle Roaring” rock album, “Life Won’t Forget” lyric album, “Everything For That Girl” greatest hits album, “The Song is About You, Too” album of sports songs as well as poems set to music under the titles “I Want to Live” and “In The Middle of Nothing”. Most of the 47 video clips created up to now feature Olympic, world, and European champions. Several poems and songs of the band deal with sport. Its music is aimed at all ages, especially those who like lyrics-centred songs with high-quality orchestration. The lyrics usually treat real people, actual events, and feelings. The ensemble has appeared on Pepsi Island (today: Sziget Festival) and three times at the Sitke Rock Festival as well as in Puskás Ferenc Stadium before the Real Madrid match. De-Pression band has shown the importance of modesty in music; each of their members was given an opportunity to implement their musical ideas. The band is currently working on a rock opera about sport.

I was elected a member of the Society ARTISJUS Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors’ Rights in 2004. I hosted the programme “The Song is About You, Too” in Budapest Television for a year, my guests being Olympic, world and European champions. I presented the programme “Living Legend” in Oldies Radio. Presently, I have a programme on Fiksz Radio with the title “Living Legend – A Fossil”.

Postal address: Németh „Nyiba” Sándor, H-1370 Budapest, Pf. 444, Hungary

E-mail: de-pression at freemail dot hu, nyiba1 at freemail dot hu

Website: de-pression.uw.hu

Until you really need to, you won’t believe in miracles. As long as you are healthy, you tend to acknowledge stories of famous healings done by shamans of the 20th century, practitioners of alternative medicine, with a careless shrug or, in the best case, an indulgent smile. And when the tragedy does happen, when traditional medicine helplessly opens its arms before human existence falling apart in disease, the mind, so rational until that time, would cling to the straw holding out even the faintest hope of healing, be it of whatever origin.

I also belonged for a long time among those who only believe in things that are scientifically proven and tangible – until that sad winter day arrived, when nothing else remained to me, either, in my utter despair but that certain straw…

In early 1994, my father was taken to hospital with a serious stroke. His motor and speech centres were completely paralyzed, his bowels stopped working, and he showed no life signs apart from some non-rhythmic breathing. His doctors – although they did their best, as far as possible, to cure him – soon informed us, his children standing around his bed anxiously and in tears, that there was no hope at all for his survival.

I already knew László Harasztosi at that time. He helped for a short while at the national freestyle wrestling team, where I still function as a leading trainer, in curing competitors’ injuries by energy transfer. When I learnt about my father’s critical health condition, I saw László, who was ready to help us immediately despite the late night hour. We drove to the spot and my father received the first bioenergetic treatment on that very night, several hundred kilometres away from Budapest. His bowels started working again on the next day and he didn’t need a catheter any more. After a couple of treatments, his tongue started to speak, he recognized us and slowly he regained his strength, to the extent that today, two years after his grave illness, he is able to look after himself – as much as a man of 81 can do so – with the help of my two sisters living in my native village.

There is an old saying that misfortunes never come singly. It was still in the same year that another tragedy happened: my brother-in-law passed away in a sudden and unexpected way. Everyone in the family was staggered by the young and ever so cheerful man’s death, but it was especially his mother who could not get over the tragedy and she was overcome by a very bad mental and nervous state. In spite of the immense quantity of sleeping pills and tranquillizers, she was unable to close her eyes, even for a short time, for several nights. We called László for help, and due to the energy he transferred, my mother-in-law was at last able to sleep over the whole night that day.

It was also László who treated my eldest sister affected by cancer, and her state positively improved due to the alternative medication. And it was also him we sought help from when my American Staffordshire dog was infected by the parvovirus, the dreadful plague of dogs, at the age of nine weeks. I believe László had much part in the dog’s survival until this day as a favourite of the family, first of all my little daughter. The above cases taught me not only to believe in things that can be perceived experimentally and empirically. I was able to see for myself the healing, often miraculous power of bioenergy.

Sándor Németh head coach of the Hungarian national freestyle wrestling team