- Katya, before you were invited to participate in the project, what are your relationship with sports at all?
- In principle, I have always been playing sports, only this was not connected with water. At school, I was engaged in athletics, handed over the cross on long distances, then fascinated with fitness. Sport has always been next to me, but I could not even imagine that someday I can decide on jumping into the water, because I was always afraid of water. For me it was like a catastrophe.
- Was surprised when they received such an unusual proposal about participation?
- Of course, surprised. And immediately refused. Said: "In a swimsuit? On the whole world? It's impossible". But three weeks later, when all the rest were already actively engaged, I had a re-call with words: without you, the show could not begin. I still had hope that I would not go through when I went to a six-hour medical examination to the presidential clinic. Therefore, when I was told: "Please", I have such a panic! (Laughs.)
- How did you imagine workouts, and how did it happen in reality?
- Since I was not familiar with this sport earlier, then the training did not imagine. Even though he has always been in sport, I did not understand how you can withstand daily three-hour loads without weekends and recovery time? It only seems to be that everything is simple. When training started on a trampoline, for example, there was fear that fingers break, it happens even among professional athletes. And in general, to work out all the movements, you need years, and not the short hours that we allocated. I did not think that it would be so hard. It was psychologically, morally and physically very scary.
Jump from a 5-meter tower was already a feat for Kati, but if before it was the task of saving the team, she would have risen to a 7.5-meter springboard. Photo: Ruslan Roshpkin.
- If you are engaged in athletics, perhaps on a trampoline it was easier for you to overcome your fear than in the water?
- Water is a separate story. If we train in everyday life to walk with a flat back, then everything is the opposite. The chest in yourself, the ass in yourself, and in the water you need to come in so that you have a beautiful posture, but, on the contrary, jump in the position a little bent, otherwise you will get injured.
- But you still did not pass the injuries. You are in the last program with pockets on your hand and back jumped.
- Unfortunately yes. I had a very strong blow to the water, it seemed that the spine would simply be broken. And it does not matter, from what height you jump, even if this is a meter tower. Incorrectly entered the water - and that's it. I had to seek help from specialists, I feared for my condition.
- Now still feel the effects of injuries?
- Doctors say it will be felt six months at least. To speak well with your body, before jumping you need to knead the muscles very well. You should not just fall, but to fly with clearly straight legs, elongated socks, which will never make just so in everyday life. For one and a half months, until the project was filmed, I could not sleep. Lost, and before the eyes there were some jumps, as in slow motion. In the head - only thoughts about how to close the legs so that they do not part in flight.
- For some reason, it seems difficult for me not so much to overcome the fear of height, but then, being in the water, do not choke and scatter.
- When you enter the water, you first realize that you are alive, everything is in order, and you need to go out as soon as possible. How to breathe - no one explained to us. (Laughs.)
- Which biggest height did you take on the project?
- Five meters. And then I understood that it was madness. If the question arose so that I would need to save the team, of course, for the sake of this, I would go to 7.5 meters. But this is with extreme nerves and endless fear.
Participants in the teams "Sharks" and "Dolphins" competed between themselves only in the amount of glasses. For the scenes, they are generally common and difficulties. Photo: Ruslan Roshpkin.
- For the team really worried? I read, for example, that you have a friendly relationship with Victoria Boni.
"Of course, because when you see how everyone has to be difficult, and you know the people closer, you have different relationships with them and the relationship. Yes, we were very friends with Vika, calling out, it is very nice. I really liked Sevara - tactful, weathered, without hysterical. Of course, the show has opened a lot of men's and female characters.
- They say, for you I was very worried about the family? And the spouse came to support, and mom and daughter?
"I'll tell you more: if there was no husband in training with me, I would never jump from 5 meters. I was told: "Katya, it is necessary!". I can not". But when the husband came, I saw that he was looking at me, thought: "Well, well, at least wait to the top and feel, can I just look at such a height?" But the more I understood what I was doing, the more my brain was refused. Therefore, when the coach screamed: "Jump!" I realized that you need not to think, but to do. And at the show itself came to support both the husband and mother, and mother-in-law. And this is the unity of the family that was near, helped very much.
- Now, when you go to rest, you can show the "class"?
- I do not know. (Laughs.) But the fact that I will confidently stay on the water, it is definitely. I think I can prove yourself.