Reverse 1 1/2 Tuck Dive: Legs

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody, Bobby Larew here. I've just finished explaining to you how to do a reverse dive pike. Now for those of you who are a little more daring, for those of you who love to spin around and get dizzy, I want to talk to you about how to do a reverse 1 1/2 in a tuck position. When you come off the diving board, you're in your good extension, right here. To get into a good, fast spinning tuck, the first thing you need to worry about are your legs and your feet. They've got to come up in the air fast, fast and hard. If you've got slow legs in the air, you won't be able to get into a good tuck and start to spin, so as you swim through and push off the board, you're going to lift the knees, raise them up, almost thinking like you're trying to raise the knees up over your head, so watch what my legs do in the tuck position. I circle through. I'm extending, about to jump off the board, I'm driving my knees, keeping my toes pointed, and driving them up over my head, and bringing the knees close into my shoulder. That's what you do with your legs on a reverse 1 1/2 tuck."