Meanwhile, Al Sailiya stunned Al Gharafa with a goal deep into stoppage time to register a 2-1 win, with substitute Mohamed Mudather producing a stunning header with a full-length
forward dive to score the winner three minutes into second-half injury time.
Substitute Mohammed Mudather produced a stunning header with a full-length
forward dive to score Al Sailiya's winner three minutes into second-half injury time.
Their first dive, a 101B
forward dive pike, scored the first ten of the competition from one of the execution judges.
The final try summed up the game with penetrating runs by Kieran Watkins and Rhys Evans being brought up short but excellent follow-up play by David Caldwell saw the rampaging
forward dive over to score, the try converted by Matthew Vaughan.
It was then that I realised how fine the line is between bravery and madness, when one of our party tried a
forward dive.
Having successfully passed this test I was taken gently through the basic jumps; straight, tucked and piked, off the poolside and then allowed to attempt a simple
forward dive tuck off the board.
A shell then flipped us over and we were sent into a
forward dive. "It was like a car going at full speed towards the ground and the G-force made it impossible to move.
They are the 101 or
forward dive - this is the conventional dive where the diver faces the front.
I was fine at
forward dives but struggled with backwards ones.
With a laugh, Martin, who talked about
forward dives, doubles, double front flips and a special inward 1-1/2, admitted, "Belly flops hurt a lot."
While the five dive groups were nearly equally represented in the total number of dives, 57% of
forward dives were performed in rounds 1-4, 42% of back dives in rounds 1 and 2, 47% of reverse dives in rounds 7-9, 58% of inward dives in rounds 3, 4, 6 and 7, and 44% of twisting dives were performed in rounds 9-11 ([c.sup.2]=77, df=40, p<0.01).