During a dispute in the workshop, one of his fellow apprentices passed him an incandescent horseshoe, which caused him serious burns of his hand.

While in Brno, he started to attend local Sokol and Hellas[3] sports clubs.

[4] After returning home he found out that he had lost his job as a butcher's apprentice and decided to start a career as a professional wrestler.

The town was a part of the Sudetenland and their farm was confiscated by Germans after the Munich Agreement in 1938.

In 1943, during the World War II, Frištenský joined the resistance movement in Olomouc, however, he was imprisoned and his wife had to bribe a Nazi prison commander to free him.

[9] At the end of the war, their farm was ransacked when the soldiers of the Red Army resided there.