The Department of water sports was opened from the new academic year in the Volga region Academy of sports and tourism. It was headed by Catherine Kotlo, who moved to Kazan from Stavropol. Master of sports of Russia in diving, candidate of biological Sciences, former employee of the North Caucasus Federal University. Ekaterina Nikolaevna told about the prospects of the new Department, her long-standing acquaintance with the"academician" -Olympian Nikita Schleicher and admitted to the fear of heights. "Was AMAZED to see KAZAN AND close to the SPORTS ACADEMY" – are Employed in the Volga region Academy I wanted three years ago, when the North-Caucasus Federal University was disbanded the faculty of physical culture, and at the Academy talking about the possibility of the creation of the Department of water sports. I was in Kazan ten years ago, even before the start of the grandiose construction associated with the preparation for the Universiade 2013. I arrived and was amazed by the city and sports facilities of the Academy, where I will now work. This is incomparable with any sports University in Russia. Here it is possible to prepare very good professionals. As said in the film "Moscow to tears does not believe" the heroine "In forty years the life only begins!"I decided to change my life dramatically, without waiting for this round date (smiles). Rector Yusup Yakubov set high tasks for the staff of the Department, announced the opening of new specializations in the future, in particular, with diving and water Polo. In terms of personnel, we are faced with the task of increasing the number of scientific and pedagogical workers with academic degrees. In this regard, there is potential for development. "YOU KNOW PAUL MUJINA SINCE CHILDHOOD. He TRAINED with HIM," She, too, will teach. My subject is swimming. Moreover, not only the theoretical part, but also practical classes. Sports experience will help me in this. I was serious about diving. I finished my career as a master of sports, and then I realized that ... I'm afraid of heights. Jumping into the water adjacent to the swimming sport. Although, in our Department there is a symbiosis: swimming-cyclic sport, water Polo-game, diving-acrobatic, difficult-coordination discipline. Synchronized swimming can be attributed directly to the cyclic and acrobatic form. – Are there any examples that can be used to guide the creation of the Department? - Similar departments are in the Moscow state University And St. Petersburg them.Lesgaft, but nowhere this year was not set to specialize in " jumping into the water." So, we have the opportunity to attract the best students from all over Russia. If you want to connect your life with diving, become a certified specialist, you are welcome to the Volga Academy! We have a lot of career guidance work to do across the country. This also applies to diving, and synchronized swimming. The Department will be located on the basis of the main water body of the Volga Academy - the Palace of water sports. Here works some years as the head coach of the national team of Tatarstan on the diving Paul Meakin. I know him from the moment she came to do diving, even trained a little in his group. His best student Nikita Schleicher I know almost from the cradle, his mother and I are friends. I consulted with her before moving to Kazan on domestic issues. And I heard a lot of positive feedback about Kazan, local living conditions, and the rapid development of sports. "PARENTS BELIEVED IN NIKITA, a CHILD let HIM go TO ANOTHER CITY" – Tell us about Slagera... - I remember him as a child, who was interested in diving even more than school subjects. Parents need to say thank you, for what they risked to float 13-year-old a boy together with a trainer Pavel Borisovich initially in Penza, and then and in Kazan, believing in his sports prospects. So, from the first days of my work at the Department I have a couple of students whom I know well. This is Schleicher and his colleague in the training group Aleksander Belevtsev. I hope that someday Nikita will become an Olympic champion, although it will be very difficult to beat the Chinese in Tokyo 2020. – What is the strength of the Chinese? - They are very strong psychologically. Unlike rivals the frustrations from them is nearly impossible. Previously, this was famous for the famous American jumper Greg Luganis, who not only knew how to tune in to the competition, but also suppressed competitors psychologically. Now in our sport China is "ahead of the rest". I think this is also connected with state support, because athletes have a lot of preferences there. Well, the number of population and sports schools leads to the results they achieve. According to the well-known since the USSR principle: mass gives skill. And it is possible that business in a choice of parents who give talented children in individual sports, understanding that there it is easier to break through. In contrast the most popular among parents is the football and hockey... not to mention the popular diving and talking about diving, now only in 16 Russian cities have children's and youth sports schools, where they train divers in the water at a serious level. This is not a lot, given the fact that we have to compete with the same China. In many ways, the child's interest in the sport is formed by parents, and they are often just late to bring their child to the section. We, as gymnastics or figure skating, are a sport with an early specialization, in seven to eight years of the child to bring in the section is too late. At this time, our children are already performing programs at the level of the third adult category, and have serious competitive experience. Besides, here I called our "subcontractors"-gymnasts, but there the trainer has an opportunity to insure the athlete on certain shells. And who will insure the jumper? Not only that, it's scary. Sometimes it hurts. For myself I remember in my childhood a long time walked around with bruises, because he could not cope with the entry into the water. Who would want such a childhood for their child? – Then what is the use of diving if we are not talking about the sport of high achievements? - Like all coordination sports, diving is very good at developing motor skills in children. And this and thought ability to, and intellectual, and memory. Alzheimer's doesn't threaten us in the end. Materials sport.business-gazeta.ru
