| Diving is a sport you may not recognize as a sport like basketball. This web page is made to help explain it. |
| By: Jessica |
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| My Diving Page |
| Capital Divers 2002 |
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| Diving is a very exciting sport. There are many positions and dives you can do. People think diving in head first is all it requires to be a diver. You have to keep straight and toes pointed. There are so many dives that you can learn to do, like a reverse dive pike, for example. Sounds hard, huh? |
| Dives require skill and practice. A reverse dive pike is when you jump forward and up, pike your legs in the air with your feet pointed up, and then bring your head down and land in a straight line, head first. A front jump is considered as diving, too. In meets, you dive a certain number of dives determined by your age. If you have enough dives, you can dive J.O., or junior olympic. That means you dive more dives and don't do jumps. |
| It takes a lot of practice to learn dives. Some dives have a high D.D., or degree of difficulty. That means if you do a dive with a D.D. of 3.6, the judges will judge you and the table workers will multiply your subtotal score by 3.6. When you started to do a hurdle and then stop and start over (balk), points get subtracted. Things can be hard and that is why people balk. |
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| You can get scholarships for diving and get into really nice schools with inside diving pools. Usually, divers wear team suits to show off their team spirit. Some diving meets that are longer than one day may even have the spirit award, to see how much you support your team. If you are at a meet that invites a lot of teams, you can earn team points, and the winning team gets a trophy. |
| This is a picture of the three platforms, 5, 7 and 10 meter. |
| This is a picture of my sister doing a front 1 1/2. |
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