Robert Michalka, Slovakia
Latest Massage Therapist signing up for the IMA’s 7th World Championship in Massage is Robert Michalka from Slovakia, The International Massage Association has asked him to tell about himself:
My name is Robert Michalka, I’m 31 now. I was born in eastern Slovakia in normal classic family and I was raised as an ice hockey player.
After high school I went to United Kingdom where I worked as a worker in warehouses because in my hometown I couldn’t find a job.
I have been in England for 7 years. I planned to be a HR manager because I had a good contact with incoming people from Slovakia, Czechia and Poland, but I was sucked for weed smoking. So last year I worked in recycle centre where we were doing 12h shifts. First time in my life I felt a back pain.
My colleague recomended me to visit a massage therapist in Oxford. It was supposed to be my first experience with massage. So I was very excited.
My very first thought after therapist put hands on my back was “This is it? This is massage? I can do it too”. Whole massage was boring and I felt like I was robbed. I went home angry and disappointed.
I have sharp character so I started swearing and critisize. My colleague told me that “If you are this big dude, learn it too and you can do it better and make money on it as well”.
I try to be a Yes-man so I immediately googled massage schools in Slovakia. I found school REMINY (https://www.reminy.sk/) in spa town Turčianské Teplice. I went for basic Classic Massage course and it impressed me a lot. It was like a Kung Fu for me wau!
So after course I started massage my collegues and they were happy lol 😀 After while I decided to take it all in and use it as a comeback home and start doing it for living.
I came back to Slovakia in 2021 and have done a requalification as a Wellness massage therapist in massage school REMAS (https://www.maserskaskola.sk/) in another spa town Piešťany and I did full wellness qualification in Comenius University Bratislava (https://fsport.uniba.sk/) I did all bureaucracy needed to open my own place in my hometown Michalovce.
In 2022 I started my own practice as a Masér Robo (https://g.co/kgs/hQTuczV, Instagram: @maser_robo) and I started offer classic wellness massage and so far I stick to it.
Last year I found on Instagram massage therapist Memo from Czechia and we started communicate with each other. He invited me on his championship in Ostrava. Because I am Yes-man I have been a first participant registered and we all met there.
I have made good contacts and friendships there and it was very inspirative for me. So I decided to organize similar event in my hometown and help to push our slovakian massage up to your IMA sample. (Instagram: @zsmc_michalovce_championship
https://icmc.cz/zemplin-slovakia-massage-championship/ )
Now, Memo again invite me to be a part of his team on your’s championship so here I am.
Beginner on World Championship Massage 2024.
Links to Massage Schools:
REMINY Massage School – https://www.reminy.sk/ – Classic massage
REMAS Massage School – https://www.maserskaskola.sk/ – Requalification to Wellness therapist
My Social Medias:
Google review – https://g.co/kgs/hQTuczV
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/maser_robo?igsh=MXI4ODBnZWR1enU1
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069261879965
TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@maser_robo?_t=8lAmWcNGmTh&_r=1
The International Massage Association look forward watching Robert Michalka skills at the 7th World Championship in Massage in wonderful Copenhagen at the end of June.
