Queensland Diving

Brilliant day for the boys at the Sleeman Sports Complex, Brisbane.

Brisbane City Council run a series of workshops and activities for children during the school holidays. 

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/whats-on/featured/school-holiday-activities-for-kids/index.htm?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D94601849

These activities include:

• abseiling
• climbing
• stand-up paddle boarding
• diving
• drama and craft workshops
• various games and challenges.

All the places are subsidised so for example, it only cost $10 (about £6) per child for 2.5 hours of diving tuition with the Queensland diving squad.

The boys started off in the dry area. They REALLY want a foam-filled pit at home now....so that they can do back flips from a trampoline in safety!

When they had got the hang of leaping off the trampolines and diving boards they went poolside.
There are plenty of pools to choose from: two 50metre pools (one indoors and one outdoors), a play pool with slides/flumes, a 25 metre pool and a diving pool. I made use of the 50m indoor pool while the boys dived - I could watch them from the pool.

Here is Oscar on the 3m diving board (above) and Alfie mid-dive (below).

We all thought about Sue and Peter while we were there because Peter taught the boys to dive - thanks Peter! You can see where they have got to now....and Alfie says he would like to do it when he gets back to the UK.

Maybe one day he might be able to do something like this - better as a movie clip - but this is one of the Australian Olympic team divers in action...they were all practising while the boys watched from the pool...this guy, Ethan Warren, did a 4.5 somersault from the 3m board - incredible! And we saw synchronised pair diving from the 10m fixed platform. Couldn't believe how graceful they were and soo together!

 Here is Ethan Warren of the Australian Olympic squad being interviewed at poolside for Australian TV. They also shot footage of the kids diving so the boys could well have ended up on Australian TV too!