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"Learn to Dive Like an Expert" by Alf Phillips - Oylmpic Champion and star in Billy Rose's Aquacade.
Article Excerpt: "GLIDING along the springboard in easy strides, you bounce down onto the tip and feel the springy plank catapult you skyward. High over the water, your body under perfect control, you suddenly whirl in mid-air and knife down into the blue water below. Knowing you've made a perfect dive, you bob to the surface, your ears ringing to the applause of the crowd. That’s the thrill of diving."
"But if your experience is limited to occasional bellyflops from the rim of a pool or swimming hole, you probably feel that springboard diving is a difficult sport to learn. Well, it is and it isn’t. I’ve been at the game for sixteen years, and I know I still have plenty to learn. But picking up the fundamentals of basic dives such as the swan or the graceful back dive, is far from an impossible task even for a rank beginner. And once you've mastered the simpler dives, the more complicated ones are only a matter of determination and practice."
This is an original 8+ page magazine article from 1940.
We do not photocopy these.
- Simple Rules, outlined by a Champion, to help you be a Better Diver.
Article Excerpt: "GLIDING along the springboard in easy strides, you bounce down onto the tip and feel the springy plank catapult you skyward. High over the water, your body under perfect control, you suddenly whirl in mid-air and knife down into the blue water below. Knowing you've made a perfect dive, you bob to the surface, your ears ringing to the applause of the crowd. That’s the thrill of diving."
"But if your experience is limited to occasional bellyflops from the rim of a pool or swimming hole, you probably feel that springboard diving is a difficult sport to learn. Well, it is and it isn’t. I’ve been at the game for sixteen years, and I know I still have plenty to learn. But picking up the fundamentals of basic dives such as the swan or the graceful back dive, is far from an impossible task even for a rank beginner. And once you've mastered the simpler dives, the more complicated ones are only a matter of determination and practice."
We do not photocopy these.
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