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Okay, welcome. I'm Bobby Larew. We're finishing up with our diving, how to do a head first
entry and we're almost done. We've started at the hands, worked all the way down to the
body. Now, we need to talk about your feet, alright? Remember before I told you about
those stretching exercises? Well they're really important now because if you go into the water
with what we call flat feet, okay -this is what flat feet is in diving- you have a chance
of actually making more of a splash. So you've got to really try to picture your feet as
the tip of a pencil, and you notice that a pencil goes up like this and when it finishes
it's nice and narrow. That's what you want when you're actually using your feet in diving.
You want a nice, strong toe point. You should feel some stretching right here. I know people
that can actually curl their toes down past vertical, almost like that. That's really
good. For your purposes you want to try to at least get to here, okay? If you have flat
feet, okay, work on those stretches. Also, you don't want to have duck feet, okay? You
don't want to make sure that your legs are wide apart at an angle. Toes together, stretching
and pointing down, making sure that you're all together -that's how you want to use your
feet in diving.