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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1961.

Let me teach you how to dive

STAGE 1. The surface dive. This is the way to learn what the water feels like when you are underneath it. Try dolog a hand-sland on the bottom. It's not too hard-even if you can't do one on land.

The clear blue-green sea is cool and inviting. But you stand hesi- tant and scared on the edge of the rock. For you are afraid. can't dive.

STAGE 2. This is the next step. My young felend's feet are clear of the water. She hasn't quite tucked her head in enough. She hasn't got her fest together. But it is a fair beglunlug.

STAGE 3. She's off! Her head t down, her bottom up. Now she has to straighten her hips so that her legs will follow her body in a straight line Into the water.

-DON'T BE SCARED, AND

forget the 10ter, Concentrate keeping your head under water.

instead na 11 thus movranols 1

an going to teach y

going.

So don't screw up your eyes. Open tens under water so that Next, remember that the water you can You

see where you are will not hurt you."

To gain confidence

practise jumping in feel-first and as you tuuich De bottom prish your way up to the surface with your arms. extended in front of you.

The longer you gaze at the water the more you tremble. The goose pimples burst through your suntan as you begin to shiver. And you feel tensed and burning in- side.

EYES OPEN

The thought of going in hend- first almost paralyses you with fear. I know just how yod feet. So will show how to conquer your nerves and learn to make a simple dive which will surprise your friends.

The first thing to remember, DO NOT stare at the water as you try to pluck up courage to dive. The longer you look down at it the worse an ardent 11 br- comes. 1 believe this senres both children and grown-ups and puts them into a blue funk more than anything else,

I would

advise you to look directly in front of you and

Four D. Jones

BY MADDOCKS

THE START

Once you master this, you can Then practise surface diving try head-Arst plunging from n This sitting position on the edge of for peonies or a pebble. water up to your chest. Push off rall or in the

Stand in shallow the pond with your feet on the Isn't diet.

trough. and drop your head, then bend at the waist and with a strong breast-stroke pall of the arms Hey lo touch the bottom.

Or you can try pushing off from the side of a pool or 3 Sea wall and then plunging under the surface,

You may find you have dif- feulty getting to the bottom n the water. You may think your head koops bobbing up to the surtace before you get the rest of yourself under it.

All you need to do is roll over, pustilig with

your feat

and straightening your body as y des sn. It's it graceful, but the start of a rive.

in

But why not be bolder? Try it standing up. If there are steps Stand on the first one above the surface of the water,

Grip the edge with your toes. Your feet should be together Bend your knees until you are in a cinching stance. Now ex- tend the anns · and 'point the Let me suggest a way to cure fugertips towards the water with this: try doing a hand-stand in your thumbs pressed together. the boltom of the water. It Lean forward. Tuck your head doesn't matter it you can't do #between your arms. As yo: begin hand-stand aland. 's much to topple over push with your easier in the waler--and it will feel, straighten your legs, and give you exactly theilen your stretch your body, neer to learn to live well.

To buy event, these exercises will bolj you to get used to

HERE WE ARE, JIM, GRAB A SHOVEL AND GET STOKING. YOU'RE NOT DOWN HERE FOR YOUR HEALTH

FERDINAND

NANCY

THIS MAN SURE

IS AN HONEST GOLFER

BRICK BRADFORD

YOU WISHBO TO SEE MO

CHIEF?

HE ALWAYS

NO ONE GETS JAMES HAWKE SHOVELLING COAL, BY JOVE NO, NOT NO

ONE

PLAYS HIS BALL

NO MATTER

WHERE IT

LANDS

•ERNIE

YES, ASTRONOMER! PLOT A COURON TO THE PLANET ROTA, WHERE EVER IT IS) SADIEL HAS DESIGNS CH THE PLACE SO THERE MUST BE

LOOT THEZA!

It is like trying to dive fhreagh ninotor tyre or a hoop. Your arms, head, body, and legs should

ROTA NEARLY THAT WAS THE PLANETIS KNOCKED ITSELF) CEPOLE DE JAR, SADE OUT OF THE

MUST THINK IT HAB

UNIVERSE WITH AN ATOMIC

WAR)

cool poWN BIOLIGH

TO LOOT IT! GET THE

* SHIPS TOGETHER).

STAGE 4. A lat higher above the water. Start to this crouch position. By now you know how it feels to to in head-frst. And you should have learned just when to rive the vital thrust with your legs that wi aboot them high into the air.

STAGE 1. The beginning of a good tle! You must try to aroh up into the alt and go vertically down Into the water. "Don't try to go outwards or you will end up doing a belly flop!

1

STAGE 6. · Entry Into the water, Hardly A ripple, Legs straight, loss pointed, atm atretched (not that you can see thom). The first dive like this will thrill you.

YOUR FRIENDS WILL ENVY YOU

by BRIAN PHELPS

Britain's Olympic Bronze Medallist diver, in an interview with JOHN REED

alide through the hole you make in the water with your

ngertips.

But do remember; don't raise your head. Keep your hips up this is one of the most important rules in good diving-your heels together, and your legs straight. Not bent and opplag apart so That you plunge in like a crab upside down.

my t

the drst me.

Maybe you did a belly-flop Thousands of bathers who dive into the water holiday time or when They want to cool off in hot wea ther flap in with a terrifle splash.

But whatever

happens keep

on trying. Then move up to the next step. And the next. As you improve yon will and it was not so fapossible after all. You may even begin to like the sensation of going in head-litat.

It is a Ronel iden tu alm to touch the bottom of the pool, but don't try to surface too soon. Glide up with your arms stift in front of you, a

VERY WELL, BUT RETRIBUTION IS AT HAND, BLACK DEVIL

THOSE THAT WON'T SHOVEL GET SHOVELLED IN THE FIGRY, FURNACE

AS FUEL

LUCRETIA BORGIA SAID THE SANG THING DOWN HERE BOME FIVE HUNDRED YEARS

AGO, SKE'S-STILL STOKING FIRE NUMBER FIVE

WE ONLY HAVE THREE SHEM.IN SERVICE. WHAT? HAPPENED TO THE SHIPP AND MEN

YOU HADZ

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller.

By Paul Norris

THREE'S BHOLISH! SADIO ONLY HÈS. TWO.... BRE

DESTROYED MY SHIPS.. | ZÀ GONO TO GET DIEN

warning. DO NOT spring out- But however expert a diver wards-a cominon fault with may be there are dangers-If he many learners. If you drób in at is careless, Experienced divers teo Bat an nugle you will end up, can plunge safely

into very by smacking the water with the shallow water. Beginners should thighs and stomach. And that never attempt to copy them and siings.

early dives from the edge of 4 pool should be carried out in nt least five feet of water.

ALWAYS CHECK DEPTH

So try to get into the water only a short distance from your rock or jelly.

Now you are ready for the your boly begins to curve to- the water your next ordinary plain dive which can wards

Getting into the water cleanly, be broken up into four sections problem is to straighten your

stance, take-off, Night, entry. hips. This pushes your legs up, so with as little splash as possibic,

that for a fraction of a second is the thing that makes a grace you look as if you are doing a ful dive. And there is no greater bandstand on the surface of the thrill than a dive performed per-

STAND UP erect but not rigid, Curl your toes over the edge of the slep, or jetty, to good grip. Pull your stomach in. talse

above your

your arms

obtain ច

head, your hands slightly wider apart (an your shoulders,

Now comes the most important moment of all-THE FLIGHT.

DIFFICULT

Take a deep breath. Bend your knees a little. Then let your body it forward until you feel that you are just of balance and about to fall into the water. At this paint, give a hard spring up- wards with your legs, at the same line directing your arms and the top of your body down towards the water.

That spring of your legs starts you off on your dive. Theh, as

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It sounds dmcult. In fact it is. But if you straighten your hips at just the right moment your body will follow the right line automatically.

fectly.

But remember: the great thing is practice, practice, practice. You will find each dive gets, bet ter than the last.

I'm sure that if you are con tent to execute only a simple dive woll you will be envled by your friends. Few of the holiday-

OF

THE

THE WATER, at the seaside or in

capecially idal waters. Make sure too that there are no hidden rocks or, in weeds to entangle you. Jakes and ponds, treacherous

It is important also to watch where you are diving so that you do not crash into a swimmer be- low.

Many of these hints may seem only common sense, but it in amazing how many accidents are caused because rules of safety are ignored.

the ordinary

For a perfect dive you should bring your hands together as you fy through the air so that when they enter the water your thumbs makers who crowd the seaside But diving, like swimming, con

are touching.

and the pools at this time of the But I must add one word of year can dive properly.

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