Swimming at Kilbernie

Every Tuesday we go swimming at Kilbirnie pool. Since we are intermediate we get other opportunities to do more advanced activities that aren't just swimming laps. There are 4 different advanced swimming activities, they are Kayaking, Snorkelling, Diving and Water Safety.

The group I am in is Diving. We have a really scary yet funny (I wouldn't really call it humour though what he says) diving instructor called James who really pushes you to do your best. He said "If you trip and fall and crack your head open and brains are spilling everywhere then I will laugh at you because you didn't listen to the safety rules." His Scottish accent also makes him even more scary. He's making us work on a whole lot of different dives like the pike, the tuck jump, the straight jump, the straight jump and tuck jump backwards (so scary!) and the head first dive. The head first dive is the one I find hardest.

The dive that I am improving on most is the tuck jump backwards. The first few times I tried I kept looking down so that my whole body tipped and whacked my forearms really hard on the water. I also kept forgetting to tuck so James threatened he'd make me jump off the ten metre, and wow did I do it a lot better the next time. In the next sessions I am going to try work hard on all my dives and try to follow every tip our instructor gives us so that my dive is perfect.!.