It takes a certain type of person to look over the edge of a 10m diving platform at the yawning pool below and think: ‘you know what, I might do a handstand’. Lois Toulson of Huddersfield is one of the very few people who does that for a living.
Not only that, it is one of the 24-year-old’s favourite dives – and she’s damn good at it as well, second best in the world when she has someone mirroring the routine from the high dive platform. “It is one of my favourite dives in training but in competition it’s quite hard,” she accepts of something 99.9 per cent of the population could never countenance attempting. “When your heart’s going mad, you’re a bit shaky and trying to do a handstand, it is quite tense.
Some of the things that I do will help her and vice-versa,” Toulson tells The Yorkshire Post from the side of the pool at the John Charles Aquatics Centre. “I think we’ve got a good relationship and it has been showing in our diving. “Even though I’m one of the older ones now which always feels weird, you feel like you’re learning things that will help you at different competitions. “It was nice to have all the hard work in training backed up by results.” Toulson is certainly a hard worker.
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