Boris Mlsna

I would still be interested, three times if I did well, you still got to Western Europe, which for the vast majority was simply unimaginable and you actually had the opportunity to get to know the western world, just non-socialist. How did you perceive the parallels with that life in Czechoslovakia, maybe even in the background of those conditions, because you probably also talked to some representatives of those countries there, what conditions they had there and whether you were not attracted, such a pleasure from another world, you've been abroad a few times. You know what, at that time. Let me tell you. In the 80's when we were in Paris, we went there by train. We had some of our money, of course we had it in our pocket, with the fact that we were amazed by what can be bought. We bought what we could and for what we had. I remember the final scene of that movie, I would call it that. When we were waiting for the train to go home in Paris at the main station, that is, at the main station, and we collected one franc and sixty, one whole franc and sixty. We were about ten because we didn't have more, actually just coins. We sent the smallest, not the youngest, but the smallest to go buy something for it. So he came up with the idea that he was really laughing. He found, we didn't know French, so he found such, on such a board, which was basically, where the prices of all the products were, so he found the cheapest. Twenty-five came out, basically a quarter of the franc, I don't know what they were there, not cents. Franc. Well, that something, and he said he has the euro, he's sixty, so begging for it, that is, six pieces. The salesman looked at him as much as he wanted. And he says six of these. He showed it to him and it was, it was such a plastic cup, so in the end we ended up like this. So this was such that we were already looking forward to going home, because we had Czechoslovak crowns that were not valid for us there, and because we were eighteen or nineteen years young, we decided to buy something, so we didn't eat. And then we ate when we crossed the border, when it was already possible to buy for crowns. That somehow we wanted to stay there, that we would be somehow amazed. Our gym was bigger than the doge, in that karate the exercise room is called the doge, that is, the doge, in that Medzilaborecká was much bigger than the doge we attended. We found that those athletes, as we trained six times a week in two phases, so they train significantly less, but three times a week, so we were not exaggerated. And then we didn't pull for the shorter end, it was very balanced that it was the first experience, international. But we didn't take it that we wanted to stay there, we were already looking forward to going home.

Go to the European Championships, do competitions. You can be the Master of Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, Europe, but we don't give you anything. An individual plan was out of the question. My life already looked like I was about sixteen, seventeen, that when I was already, already. Sometimes at the age of seventeen I drove my father to those performances, but until the seventeen eighteen, I got up at about half past four in the morning, at five I went up the stairs to Slavín, it took me an hour. I came home, took a shower, ate, went to school at eight. The school finished at three, eating, training, learning, sleeping at nine so that I could get up again at five. This is what it looked like at the grammar school. Of course, there were stresses that they didn't give us anything, any benefits. There were big problems with some participation, not attending classes, even though I had a pre-arranged request from the union, which was even from ČSTV for release, so the teacher released me, but of course she gave it to me as an excused hour, but she added it to the hours, which when I exceeded a certain number of those hours, I had to go to commission exams. Luckily then there were some, some difference of two hours. I was below that line, so the commission exams passed me, but I say it was a lot of stress, so everything before and then it was much easier and simpler. So maybe ČSTV, the Czechoslovak Association of Physical Education. Yes. Somehow it was. So, it did not interfere in the teaching process in any way, somehow. As you said, it will release what might already be expected, as you are a representative, and so that I do not know whether the state apparatus or the regime tried to build from you something representative of you. Well, we didn't have any benefits, either. This was that the Czechoslovak Association of Physical Education gave us confirmation. My classmates were a year lower, they were, that is, classmates, those who also went or were enrolled in high school, was Miloš Mečíš, for example, Jozef Sabovčík, who were something completely different, but we have never taken it that we should compare. He just had to, we thought it had to be this way.