"I was a wrestler who was comfortable connecting with my opponent, that's the kind of thing that's almost impossible nowadays. Not many people go into connection anymore because it's risky and because you can stay in there - your opponent gets points. So that was close to my heart. When I was training with Víťa Mácha, who I already talked about today, the Olympic champion, we trained together an awful lot, he always said to me, `Please don't squeeze me. You're so strong.' Because he didn't want to connect. He had his style somewhere else. But that was training, so it was totally different."
"I've encountered doping, not directly, I mean I don´t think I've used it, fortunately. But at that time doping was state-controlled. Wrestling is a sport that, as I've always maintained, is not entirely suitable for doping for one simple reason, and that is that there are weight classes where athletes have to cut weight. And when their weight jumped up, they had to take it off again. So for wrestling I don't think it was entirely appropriate. On the other hand, when I was finishing up with the national team, they let us in and told us that it was basically an obligation to line up. It wasn't completely about doping, it was about the support stuff and how they do it in the world and in surrounding countries. That we have to too, whoever wants to represent has to too. I was finishing at the time, it didn't concern me anymore and I was very happy about it. Then I was faced with it as a coach when the request was made that the athlete wanted to join. I solved it with the placebo effect at the time and I am still proud of it to this day that we brought back four medals from world competitions without doping."
"As an active athlete, I lived through an era, or I was at the same time as our Olympic winner Vítězslav Mácha, who was at the top and is still at the top of our sport. Seven years I stayed behind him, I was always second. Thus, I did not go to the world competitions, nor to the European Championships or the Olympics. How did I take it? Hard. On the other hand, Víta Mácha and I were rivals and friends, then colleagues. Then I made up for it as a coach."
Václav Scheiner was born on 10 May 1955 in Pilsen. Since his youth he has been involved in Greco-Roman wrestling. He completed his military service in the company of the Federal Ministry of the Interior within the army sports club Red Star Football Club. Instead of working as an electrician, he became a professional athlete and at that time the second best Greco-Roman wrestler. He became the champion of Czechoslovakia three times. In order to become a coach, he completed his education and graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University in Prague and passed the oral examination resulting getting the doctoral degree of PaedDr. In 2025 he was living in Mníšek pod Brdy, still partly carrying out coaching activities, in his spare time he devoted himself to traveling and alpine hiking.
