“Not everyone has the need to go up and dive from such a top or land in such a shallow pool.” — Acrobatic performer Yves Milord.
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The spotlight of the diving present is on the finish when Yves Milord climbs a thin, 80-foot ladder and steps onto a tiny perch, excessive above the PNE grounds. He leaps off right into a twist and lands in a pool of water beneath that’s simply 10-feet deep.
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The trick to not breaking each bone in your physique is in a way referred to as scooping, says the 60-year-old, who has been performing in acrobatic diving reveals for over 40 years.
“It’s like while you take some ice cream. You enter your spoon, and also you curve as you enter. That’s the identical motion as once we dive from that top or from decrease, which implies, as quickly as you hit the water, you carry legs ahead or roll onto your again, to scoop so that you don’t contact the underside of the pool.”
Milord is the proprietor of Milord Leisure, which produces the “Flying Fools Excessive Diving Present,” that’s again on the PNE for the primary time in about 15 years.
There are six performers within the present this summer season, however solely Milord and a colleague, Aaron Randles, are doing the finale excessive dive.
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“Not everyone has the need to go up and dive from such a top or land in such a shallow pool,” stated Milord.
In metric phrases, it’s leaping off a 25 metre board into three metres of water.
About 20 years in the past, Milord met Randles, who spent years performing excessive dives and acrobatics on the acclaimed and long-running “The Home of Dancing Water,” present in Macau.
“He was 20-years-old and I used to be 40, and I believed I used to be too previous to carry out,” stated Milord.
“He was excessive diving on a regular basis, however the factor is (in Macau), they’d nearly 18 toes of water to dive into. Right here, it’s solely 10 toes, which makes the duty loads more durable. It is advisable to sacrifice your physique a bit of bit extra. He’s a younger, 40-year-old.”
The opposite divers come from some type of acrobatic background, both diving, gymnastics or trampolining. They’ve expertise that take years to grasp, and the coaching for the present shouldn’t be a protracted course of compared, stated Milord.
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The primary 18 minutes of the 20-minute present is targeted on the diving boards and platforms which are as much as 30-feet excessive. There’s comedy, slapstick, a number of critical dives, and a few sequences which are choreographed to music.
It’s the excessive dive that may take years, months or weeks to do, relying on varied elements, in accordance with Milord.
There are solely a handful of performers in his firm that may do it. A few of them have been performing in one other unit that has been on the Indiana State Truthful this summer season.
The corporate can be recognized for hearth dives the place the performer is lit on hearth earlier than making a excessive dive right into a pool, but it surely isn’t performed on the PNE due to the danger.
“There are too many timber round and we don’t need to likelihood it. The wind comes alongside, you by no means know. It’s too dry and it’s not the factor to do now,” stated Milord.
“Not everyone at my age can nonetheless carry out,” stated the previous highschool trainer from Quebec, who’s on the highway from June to October yearly.
“It’s a great way to journey, see the world, receives a commission for one thing they like to do, and it beats any type of 9 to 5 job, in our thoughts.”
There are three free reveals a day all through the PNE, one at 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and seven p.m. The PNE runs by way of Sept. 4, however is closed on Mondays.
