Jana Hochová

"I experienced it [the 1989 revolution] with students, which was really amazing, it was terrific. I remember I walked to the faculty and nobody was standing outside our faculty, and I was thinking, 'Those students of ours are studying again, nothing is happening here.' And then a colleague came running out and said - you see how strong it was, I still remember it - and she said, 'Hey, come on, in that one,' which was the biggest gym in Tyršák, 'we have a meeting, run over there!' And then I used to go with a colleague, actually we were in charge of Karlovy Vary, so we used to go to Vary and do the revolution, awareness raising. And I was able to do that because my friend only had children when she was older and they were small, so she took care of my children and I went - in quotes - to make the revolution."

"Just as I was studying at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, I first taught at the apprenticeship, and then I applied for the selection process for the swimming department at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport. I got in there and after a while, I had to do some research work. I don't really consider myself a scientist, but that's just the way it was. And since Associate Professor Miloslav Hoch, who was the head of the Department of Swimming and was doing research on infant swimming and was about to retire at that time, I took over his baton. He's actually my father-in-law, or he was my father-in-law, and I started doing the infant swimming at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport first as a kind of research activity, where they were doing some theses and looking at what effect it had on the children. And after the revolution in 1989, I left the Faculty of Physical Education, although I wanted to stay there and I wanted to actually develop this area on that basis, like at the school, and to continue researching the benefit for those children and in collaboration with the doctors and with the physiotherapists. Unfortunately, the human envy is terrible and everyone there thought I was getting millions out of it and it came to the point where I had to leave that campus because I couldn't take it anymore - staying there."