I was born in Budapest on February 23rd, 1952.

My sports achievements:

SWIMMING: 1958–1966 in BVSC (Szõnyi road):

22nd National Championship gold medal: in novice, junior and adult divisions, individually and in relays.

WATER POLO: Adolescent Championship gold medal: BVSC (Szõnyi road)

PENTATHLON: Junior National Championship gold medal (team): Újpesti Dózsa

Junior National Championship silver medal (individual): Újpesti Dózsa

FENCING: Junior National Championship individual gold medal: 1972 (once), team gold medal 3 times

Adult: National Champion 1978–1979 (individual) Újpesti Dózsa, 1985 (team) Újpesti Dózsa

UNIVERSITY WORLD CHAMPION: 1979, Mexico City (Universiade) (team)

INDIVIDUAL WORLD CHAMPION: 1981, Clermont-Ferrand (France)

WORLD CUP WINNER: 1981 (based on the total of world cup competitions)

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1981–1982 (bronze medal) Clermont-Ferrand–Rome (team)

1992: national championship (épée fencing team), silver medal (Viktória sports club)

Salgótarján city: winner of the prize “best team of the county”

1988: OLYMPIC GAMES, Seoul (ranked 6th in team), end of active sports career.

TRAINER since 1989: Újpesti Dózsa, UTE, OSC, Saudi Arabia (national team, épée fencing)

ZSOLT GÖMÖRI national individual gold medal (OSC)

ANNA SZÉKELY junior world championship (with Hungary as a team member)

PÉTER PARTICS cadet world championship (with Hungary as a team member)

Nike Sidiropoulos (Greece). Silver medal: European Championship, Moscow (2002), women's épée fencing, individual.

ARAB GAMES: team gold medal

WORLD CUP WINNER (Mohamed Al Giuzani)

1988, Seoul – 2007, Budapest
Almost 20 years, but “friendship is for life!”

It was my water polo player friend Zsolt Petõváry who helped me contact the Magician. I made an appointment by phone and we met.

I told him my complaint; he immediately set to work, and before I realized what was happening, I felt some strange kind of warmth and calmness. We were talking but he was – I assume – working at the same time. Several topics emerged; it was especially good for me to have a chat about things that concerned me. We spent together about an hour the first time and I took the metro full of self-confidence, with a swelling chest; I walked, avoiding the nuisance of Budapest transport. My thoughts flittered and raced around; I asked myself if I would ever get home.

Eventually, I managed to but I was overcome by a strange sense of clairvoyance, which is still continuously present in me, and which I perceive like rejuvenation and activity. We met again in two days: the Magician started to treat my Long Gun (Catherine). Unfortunately, the three years spent in fitness came out as hernia on her spine, neck, and belly. Knee bend and bench press are not very healthy with a weight of 60 kg. She had seen all the specialists in Budapest; she had taken the MRI of the skull, the neck, and the spine – we had all the imaginable results. The diagnosis: double spinal hernia on the lumbar section, disease of the intervertebral discs on the whole length of the spine, and there were protrusions, anticipating hernia, visible at five spots on the neck section. These involve very unpleasant symptoms and they are extremely stressing to the psyche of such patients.

When the treatment was over (the improvement is still noticeable; her mood changed in a positive way) my energy recharge followed!

He stuck all the heavy objects accessible in the flat on me, with his special, innate talent. An iron, a wok, a complete electric épée, a marble chessboard weighing 7.70 kg, a hatchet, an axe, an adjustable spanner, a laptop, remote controls etc; he transferred the energy with his hand. He who doesn’t believe it should see it for himself: http://www.harasztosi.hu/szekely.html – I recommend it!

Next day I went angling in the early morning and I was astonished to realize that my production, only dribbling beforehand, transformed into a forceful water jet. I showed it to my fellow anglers: just like when I was a youngster, it’s going well, even up to the first floor, not only towards the cellar!

I feel like our relationship has evolved into a friendship. It was not only my physical problems but also the spiritual ones that became lighter and lighter. I wrestled with the world every night, I was attacked by terrible dreams and fears; now they completely avoid me, they have left me, maybe they haunt others who deserve them more than I do.

Wherever my fate should take me, I profess among sportspeople and artists: man and nature are dependent on each other, nature must not be spoiled for the sake of sordid financial or whatever interests. Sports physicians should not be afraid for their jobs because of their financial goals or jealousy; they should be a supportive partner – but if they aren’t, they should at least sometimes practise self-criticism…!

The reason why I had to write it here is because it is closely related to my healing, and anyway: if the shoe fits, wear it…

Thank you, Magician!!!

Zoltán “Cérna” Székely, fencing world champion