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Head of University Department has visited the Fire Service

In the middle of July dr. László Jakabházy, Head of University Department, visited to Paks to get to know the recreational activity of the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service.
Dr. László Jakabházy’s successes achieved in top-ranking sports are well-known. He was an ice-hockey champion seventeen times, the head coach of FTC (Ferencváros Sports Club) three times and a member of the national team 86 times. As a coach Hungarian champions, Olympic and World Champions have emerged from among his hands in ice-hockey, football and wrestling. He has been a teacher at the University of Physical Education for 30 years. He is the Head of the Department of Recreation and an expectant for an appointment of university professor. Several publications, books of his have been issued. He is a sportsman, teacher and psychologist in one person. He handles the recreation as national sports health.
- What kind of impressions have you acquired about the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service?
- I made sure of the organization of a high degree. The practical and theoretical work of the firemen is ensured by high-level equipment, which can serve as a model for other fire services in the country. Besides the machines, equipment the attitude and that ideal value with which the physical education and sports are handled here are extremely exemplary. The firemen’s dangerous work, serious profession meaning life-danger is known for all, and in this respect the men’s motivation particularly remarkable.
- How do you see the sports activity?
- In the focus of my interest the increase of the level of the firemen’s conditional hardiness and making the sports activities more diversified was standing. I see that they could move forward only in making the sports activity more diversified, since they have established a great number of things. It is important that the firemen should be healthy in their physical condition and mentally as well. The staying power, quickness, physical conditional state are at a definite place, but above all such consciousness, such a way of thinking are needed with which they undertake the danger. It is not an easy task, this is already the peak of the profession. It is necessary to acquire the due temper, motivation, in which the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service follows the best track.
- How do you sum up the result of the visit?
- On my part I will urge on the establishment of a cooperation agreement between the University of Physical Education and the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service. We could help each other in a great number of ways. On our part we would offer different trainings, and in this way we would support the firemen to acquire qualifications of sports instructors, with which they could develop their lifestyle. The nuclear power plant could support us by transmitting its own experience within the frame of lectures. The firemen having great practice, sense of vocation could transmit a high mental-moral level, and I am convinced that the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service is leading in this respect.
- What do you profess as your ars poetics?
- Get tired to be rested! – it is the base of my life philosophy. At first one should work, in all fields and very hard. I profess it open-heartedly, and my own lifestyle is its proof at the age of 65. It is important to train ourselves in our physical condition every day. I met similar people in Paks, I got acquainted with at least 20-25 young men, about whom it seems that the nuclear power plant is in good hands.
- Thank you for the talk!

Lovásziné Anna
Atomerőmű (Nuclear Power Plant)
August