02-14-2013, 04:18 PM
5. BODYBUILDING HISTORY. HOW IT WAS IN REAL. FIRST THROUGH IRON WALL
At the Soviet times Universities of different countries used to change students in between. While studying Law and Philology at the Vilnius State University contemporary International President WFF-WBBF EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS in such studnet‘s groups two times visited Czechoslovakia (1974 and 1976). Sport contacts with Czechoslovakia bodybuilding leaders started at once. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS had constant meetings and correspondence with the President IFBB Czechoslovakia VOJTECH FIALA. VOJTECH FIALA was a smart and active Bodybuilding Official and it was most result of his personal work that in 1974 Czechoslovakia broke the „Iron Wall“ of communists and started participating at the World and Continental Championships in the Western World. It was PETR STACH who won the European Championship first time in bodybuilding history representing Socialist Countries in 1975. PETR STACH performed a complicate multy - pose posing routine accompanied by the music. He tought Western Bodybuilders the posing lessons and after his successfull participation new posing ideas started in the bodybuilding World. Before this at the Official Contests the Bodybuilders used to pose on a small podium. It was like this: a bodybuilder went on 1 x 1 meter podium, hit 1 - 2 poses, then thought for some time and hit 1 - 2 more poses again and that was all. What is interesting that during this „hard“ posing program bodybuilders somehow managed to forget and skip 1 or 2 poses... That was a topic of discussion after the routine.
Regular participation of Czechoslovakia Bodybuilders in the West quickly rised them on the Top of Socialist Bodybuilding. Sportsmen of multiple Socialist Countries had no such chances and envied the Czechoslovaks. On the hard political situation like this being the biggest regular International Event in the Socialist World the „Amber Prix International“ was of great importance at that times.
Visiting Czechoslovakia EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS met personal friends among the Sport Leaders and Bodybuilders: PETR STACH, PETR TLAPAK, ROBERT DANTLINGER, ALOIS PEK and many others. Good relations of EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS with in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) published Director Magazine „Trener“ JOZEF MAZAK (later with MILAN PERDOCH) were set too. In those years „Trener“ Magazine used to publish bodybuilding materials constantly and it was the only sourse of information in the Socialist World. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS wrote a number of articles for „Trener“ too. Among them about the „Amber Prix International“.
EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS was in constant contact with Bodybuilding Leaders of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, China. Two times after the invitation of the Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Official professor FRANTISEK BULVA EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS was present as a VIP quest at the meetings of the Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Federation Executive Council (1976, Brno). With Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Officials and Athletes was very intensive correspondence (lots of documents are in the archives of the WFF-WBBF International).
Under the personal initiative of EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS a unique International Contest between National Teams of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia were thoroughly planned and worked out. After a long work finally EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS received from Sport Ministerium invitations for the Lithuania Bodybuilding Team to participate in Czechoslovakia. It was the unbelievable result in Socialist times. The successfull visa work started and it ended with the same result as it ends very often. Due to the inner misunderstandings, envy, jealousy, blackmailing to Governmental Security Institutions of the USSR Bodybuilding Officials, the Contest in Czechoslovakia was canceled. These „famous“ historic documents, invitations still remain in the WFF-WBBF International archives. Angry with the USSR Bodybuilding Officials who did this, EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS gave his personal Intenational Contacts to his good Estonian friend and Bodybuilding Leader INNAR MARDO. Later due to the folowing work and good personal contacts in Estonia Government, a number of times INNAR MARDO participated at International Contests in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia with the National Teams Estonia (1979 - 1981). It was INNAR MARDO who using the contacts given him by EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS brought the Over All „Amber Prix International“ Winner OLEV ANNUS and the „Amber Prix International“ Champion INDREK OTSUS (Estonia) abroad to win all the Competitions they participated. And again nothing new: when all goes well with INNAR MARDO, the envy, jealousy and dirty blackmailing starts in Estonia too. That made INNAR MARDO to leave his Bodybuilding activities for some time, OLEV ANNUS emigrated to Finland and became a famous Bodybuilder of IFBB and NABBA. For participating at NABBA Events OLEV ANNUS twice was sanctioned and disqualified by the IFBB for „life“, but always managed to participate again and again.
At the Soviet times Universities of different countries used to change students in between. While studying Law and Philology at the Vilnius State University contemporary International President WFF-WBBF EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS in such studnet‘s groups two times visited Czechoslovakia (1974 and 1976). Sport contacts with Czechoslovakia bodybuilding leaders started at once. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS had constant meetings and correspondence with the President IFBB Czechoslovakia VOJTECH FIALA. VOJTECH FIALA was a smart and active Bodybuilding Official and it was most result of his personal work that in 1974 Czechoslovakia broke the „Iron Wall“ of communists and started participating at the World and Continental Championships in the Western World. It was PETR STACH who won the European Championship first time in bodybuilding history representing Socialist Countries in 1975. PETR STACH performed a complicate multy - pose posing routine accompanied by the music. He tought Western Bodybuilders the posing lessons and after his successfull participation new posing ideas started in the bodybuilding World. Before this at the Official Contests the Bodybuilders used to pose on a small podium. It was like this: a bodybuilder went on 1 x 1 meter podium, hit 1 - 2 poses, then thought for some time and hit 1 - 2 more poses again and that was all. What is interesting that during this „hard“ posing program bodybuilders somehow managed to forget and skip 1 or 2 poses... That was a topic of discussion after the routine.
Regular participation of Czechoslovakia Bodybuilders in the West quickly rised them on the Top of Socialist Bodybuilding. Sportsmen of multiple Socialist Countries had no such chances and envied the Czechoslovaks. On the hard political situation like this being the biggest regular International Event in the Socialist World the „Amber Prix International“ was of great importance at that times.
Visiting Czechoslovakia EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS met personal friends among the Sport Leaders and Bodybuilders: PETR STACH, PETR TLAPAK, ROBERT DANTLINGER, ALOIS PEK and many others. Good relations of EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS with in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) published Director Magazine „Trener“ JOZEF MAZAK (later with MILAN PERDOCH) were set too. In those years „Trener“ Magazine used to publish bodybuilding materials constantly and it was the only sourse of information in the Socialist World. EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS wrote a number of articles for „Trener“ too. Among them about the „Amber Prix International“.
EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS was in constant contact with Bodybuilding Leaders of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, China. Two times after the invitation of the Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Official professor FRANTISEK BULVA EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS was present as a VIP quest at the meetings of the Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Federation Executive Council (1976, Brno). With Czechoslovakia Bodybuilding Officials and Athletes was very intensive correspondence (lots of documents are in the archives of the WFF-WBBF International).
Under the personal initiative of EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS a unique International Contest between National Teams of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia were thoroughly planned and worked out. After a long work finally EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS received from Sport Ministerium invitations for the Lithuania Bodybuilding Team to participate in Czechoslovakia. It was the unbelievable result in Socialist times. The successfull visa work started and it ended with the same result as it ends very often. Due to the inner misunderstandings, envy, jealousy, blackmailing to Governmental Security Institutions of the USSR Bodybuilding Officials, the Contest in Czechoslovakia was canceled. These „famous“ historic documents, invitations still remain in the WFF-WBBF International archives. Angry with the USSR Bodybuilding Officials who did this, EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS gave his personal Intenational Contacts to his good Estonian friend and Bodybuilding Leader INNAR MARDO. Later due to the folowing work and good personal contacts in Estonia Government, a number of times INNAR MARDO participated at International Contests in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia with the National Teams Estonia (1979 - 1981). It was INNAR MARDO who using the contacts given him by EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS brought the Over All „Amber Prix International“ Winner OLEV ANNUS and the „Amber Prix International“ Champion INDREK OTSUS (Estonia) abroad to win all the Competitions they participated. And again nothing new: when all goes well with INNAR MARDO, the envy, jealousy and dirty blackmailing starts in Estonia too. That made INNAR MARDO to leave his Bodybuilding activities for some time, OLEV ANNUS emigrated to Finland and became a famous Bodybuilder of IFBB and NABBA. For participating at NABBA Events OLEV ANNUS twice was sanctioned and disqualified by the IFBB for „life“, but always managed to participate again and again.