Studies & Degrees in Diving

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The sport of diving is the activity of plunging into the water from the diving boards; either feet first or head first, may it be on cliffs, docks, shores and pool sides. Enthusiasts dive to get into the water either for fun or in joining competition or attempting to do airborne acrobatic prior to landing gracefully into the water. During the period of 1800s, the sport of diving headfirst to the water had become popular, and was followed by a sport known as plunging was developed. The divers will take their water plunge from the dock or poolside, then hold their breaths as they glide under the water and swim as deeper as they can.

Diving as an activity has evolved tremendously as the participants have attempted to do their take-offs from greater and higher heights. In the countries of the United States and Europe, their bridges served as their locations from which to dive. In Mexico, specifically in Acapulco, the dives and jumps to the sea from high cliffs were tried as the tides come in. In Hawaii, the divers, jumped and then dived and at the same time somersaulted from greater heights landing into waterfalls or deep pools.

In diving competitions, the divers are performing basic dives, twists and somersaults which they will be completing before entering the water. There are separate events which are held for different kinds of divers. For the springboard divers, they have a narrower drive from a springy board which flexes under movement and weight. On the other hand, for the platform divers, they dive fixedly on a rigid platform. There are also judges who evaluate and assess their dives and give the divers their scores. Before scoring, the judges give high considerations on factors like the approaches, take-offs; the similarities of heights the divers have reached while diving; the coordination of their timing and movements, the angle of their water entrance and the distances of the boards from the entries.

A diver’s basic dive involves four unique parts, first is the starting position followed by the take-off position, thirdly is the in-flight maneuvers and lastly is the water entrance. The divers learned all these components as they do their routines repeatedly. They also make use of their progressions in order to be able to do more unique and difficult dives. They normally started in simple techniques like the feet first position jumps then learning other alignment somersaults, body positions and twists. They often practice these on dry grounds using equipment namely safety harnesses with trampolines which suspend them to the air, they also make used of foam pits as cushion landings.

Now came in the modern sport of Diving which originated in Sweden and Germany during the 19th century. During this time as well, the people had began using gymnastic equipment in beaches during summer time. The divers practice and perform their routines from trapezes, springboards and flying rings as they land in the water after their aerial stunts. After some time, the rings and trapezes were taken away and what has became even more popular is diving from springboard and platforms, and such sport was known in many terms as plain high diving, fancy high diving and springboard diving.