Walters demonstrated the next challenge: lying on your back with your legs up, like a baby, and kicking the air to achieve a steady bounce.
The scale of the challenge he faces is underlined by an end-of-year poll of polls for the Independent showing Labour has only achieved a modest bounce in support since he became leader in September.
"In this time," writes Blair, "I was trying to wear … a kind of psychological armour which the arrows simply bounced off, and to achieve a kind of weightlessness that allowed me, somehow, to float above the demonic rabble tearing at my limbs.
After 52 minutes, through an own goal by Alonso and a strange lapse by goalkeeper Casillas, who allowed an Ivica Dragutinovic free kick to bounce right through him, it appeared that Sevilla would achieve a fantastic double over the Galácticos.
He bounces his flash off a wall - sometimes as far as 30 feet away - to achieve a painterly effect.
This way there is less investment, you achieve an earlier learning curve, and you are able to bounce back quicker and rebuild.
Finn was accurate, quick and hostile on the first day against South Africa A, achieving the awkward bounce which can instil doubts into the minds of the most accomplished batsmen.
But even so there was a contrast, inasmuch as Lyon used over-spin to achieve bounce as much as sidespin to get turn, a method to which Swann, a prodigious finger spinner of the ball, seemed unable to adapt.
Achieving a spiritual experience.
A printed design achieved its bounce through the weight of a hem of pink satin-ribbon.
