FOREWORD

Lectori salutem, welcome to the reader!

In my 'happy days', as a city bumpkin, emerging from the reeds of the Beaver Lake, from the banks of the canals, from the living and the dead Tisza, and frothing with experience, I did not wear the inscription: 'Child of Rousseau' - and I did indeed grow up in nature. I was lucky: I was born a perpetual mover, so I could at least avoid the seven cardinal sins of restlessness. Restlessness or laziness can blight the lives of physical education teachers, doctors, body sculptors or other professionals with a passion for lifestyle improvement. Genetics alone is not enough: individual development is only meaningful in community, and for that we need facilitators (or educators, as they are known). I was lucky to have them.
I had a footballer class teacher, a hiking orienteering teacher, a fencing Latin teacher; and my physical education teachers (Imsi Balogh, Sanyi Török) 'produced' basketball players, swimmers and water polo players for the national teams in the Bethlen Gábor High School in Hódmezővásárhely.

Our performances in the swimming pool, under the hoop, on the fencing mat or on the tennis court are now submerged in a pool of unconscious deafness: they are just memories, because we were instinctively intact in body and soul. Nowadays, however, the development of this visceral sense of balance (body control, choices about ourselves) has become an interdisciplinary discipline based on fact-finding, in which physiology, movement intelligence, dietetics, mental proportion and bodily aesthetics act in a self-disciplined way in a single direction: live more beautifully, healthier, happier. Bad habits are like shed snake skin,
can be left behind. Then a child (who I was) will find it in the reeds and understand that life is a constant change, a transformation, a metamorphosis that depends on us (who I will be). Now that I have been introduced to modern forms of recreation, I have found that life begins at seventy. Like for me last year...

Professor Dr. Jenő Bárdos

DSc, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus
member of the editorial board