Diving Research Paper

It is often a challenging task to embark upon the mastery of a new skill. However, it is important to challenge oneself. If one is not challenged, they will not overcome their fears nor will they achieve their full potential. In “For Julia, in Deep Water,” John N. Morris describes the arms of the swimming instructor as “merciless for [Julia’s] sake” (8). The instructor must challenge Julia, otherwise the fear of drowning will not be real for her. Without that fear and challenge, Julia will not be able to learn to swim.

The world of diving has been around since the 1800’s and has been seen at the Olympic games since 1904. It first started off being called “fancy-diving” where the aim was to plunge into the water and see who could achieve the furthest depth underwater. It then progressed and became more complex involving specific skills and dives which first only men were allowed to participate in, and later women came into the society. To this day, diving is one of the most popular events watched at the Olympic games; however this community remains small and structured because of its intricate characteristics (“History of Diving”, 1). Diving has been influenced by the constant updating of technology and is incorporated in this world through high schools, colleges and universities as well as numerous sporting events that occur around the world. A theorist named John Swales analyzes communities in more detail and states that communities continue to develop and change throughout the years and further calls these communities, discourse communities.

Emma Sparks was born with a disability called arthrogryposis. Arthrogryposis means a child is born with joint contractures. This means some of their joints don't move as much as normal and may even be stuck in one position due to extra tissue may have formed around the joints. Often the muscles around these joints are thin, weak, stiff or missing. Because of this disability Emma does not have proper function of her arms and needs a little extra help around, especially around open bodies of water. Emma’s mother, Chandra, enrolled Emma in private swimming lessons in July in hopes that she might learn the most basic water survival skill: floating. Under supervision of our YMCA swim instructor, Ali, Emma is not only practicing

A practiced dive lets me cut through the water easily for a couple seconds I am gliding and listening to NSYNC (thanks to the new underwater speakers). The water will soon crash in my ears and I will actually have to use my body and brain to keep moving. The water distends before I break the surface with my arm and pointed hand. I finish the two-hundred free warm-up quickly alongside my friend and soon after taking a long drink of water, she puts all her weight on my

To me, determination is breaking all the barriers for reaching a goal. Motivational speaker Scott Greenberg talked to the student council delegation at this year’s state convention, and he explained how to overcome one’s hegley, the person in one’s head that screams he or she cannot do it. Determination is ignoring my own hegley so I can achieve my goals. Diving is a sport that requires courage, confidence, and appropriate clothing. I may have picked up this sport as a sophomore, but I have aspirations to well this year, such as qualifying for regionals. I need the courage to learn new dives, even if that requires smacking my back on the water, potentially leaving bruises. I need the confidence to perform the dive, because during competition, it is just me and the board. I only have one chance. Lastly, I prefer diving in a speedo or jammer rather than jeans or sweats. In addition to this sport, I enjoy participating in East Noble’s Academic Super Bowl Team in the subjects of math and science. The Indiana Association of Principals (IASP) formulates a theme, and the competition tests the students’ knowledge in their respected category. There is a reason why the IASP releases the rubric in October: to allow the determined individuals study and prepare for the competition. I already started researching the topics now, so I will be well-prepared for the

I’ve been diving since I was 10 years old; I can vividly remember performing my swim

Being on my school’s diving team has had its ups and downs but one the biggest setbacks I went through while on the team was my freshman year when I got a concussion. I was doing a simple reverse dive I under rotated enough that when I hit the water, it pushed my head into my knee. I am unsure whether or not I blacked out but all I remembered was climbing out of the pool dizzy and confused. I went to a doctor and found out I had a concussion. Having a concussion was a big setback in itself, but what made it the worst was that the conference meet was coming up in about a week. I had to rest for the remainder of the week and was cleared to practice again the next Monday. Because of the whole situation I felt like quitting all together. I only had three days of practice before the conference meet and had nothing prepared. I did not think it would be possible for me to practice all eleven of my dives that I needed to do at the meet in time. Then I remembered my goal for the season: to earn my varsity letter. I had not achieved my goal yet and the conference meet was my last chance to do so. I was not about to

Each jump decreased the distance between the water and myself. Now the difference was twenty centimetres and my body was losing concentration and hope. I jumped completely forgetting my other leg which was hanging in a grasped position on the fourth

Greg Louganis created awareness for diving. Diving is an olympic acrobatic sport performed on 2 grounds, a springboard and a platform “Springboard diving is done from a flexible plank made of aluminum or steel and measuring 16 ft (4.9 m) long by 20 in. (51 cm) wide. It extends horizontally over the water at a height of 1 m (about 3 ft 3 in.) or 3 m (about 9 ft 10 in.). The flexibility of the board allows the diver to jump high into the air to execute various maneuvers before entering the water. Platform diving (also called high diving) is usually done from a tower 10 m (32 ft 10 in.) high that is not flexible and that projects nearly five feet (1.5 m) over the water. The height of the tower permits more involved acrobatics during descent;

Fear is a huge factor in this discipline. There are movements that simply gives you jitter when you think about attempting the, Caleb explains. He tells us that fear is something that your body tells you when it wants you to aware the consequences and not be reckless. Showing a clip of Caleb attempting a large dive vault off of a ledge multiple times but hesitated at the last moment. Caleb tells us that fear is necessary, but he also reminds us that we need to conquer that fear and be better than your old self. Resulting in a perfect dive vault across a giant gap onto a ledge by Caleb.

There are many aspects and components that make up the sport performance of Olympic diving. To become an excellent diver, one must integrate the six components of a Sports Performance Program. The six training components include, flexibility, cardiorespiratory, core, balance, plyometric, and speed, agility, and quickness. This paper will be covering three of the six components, which include: balance, plyometric, and speed, agility, and quickness.

In just a matter of minutes I found out if trusting myself really worked and if I had really been trusting myself that whole time or not. It was that time again to step up on the block and not think just do. I rested my foot back on the back of the block, gripped the edge of the block with force, and I dove into the water with perfect alignment and you could barely hear anything when I hit the water. I had finally did it, I had achieved my fear of diving off the block and what my coaches said I did was beautiful. I was in so much shock and had so much relief that for my first race I would be able to start my first race the right way and had lots of confidence which made me less nervous than I already figured I would be.

Underwater national parks were created in order to preserve the sea life seeing as how we haven’t explored ninety-five percent of our oceans. Their focus is isolating an area and maintaining the wildlife within it. Everything from coral to stingrays and plankton that inhabit the parks. While the animals are taken care of, the national park ensures protection for the history that lies within its waters. Underwater national parks are crucial because of the marine life that inhabits it and the history and culture that the parks preserve.

and I felt that scuba was for me. My first dive took place while on a family

The next part of the training turned out to be the toughest. We were required to dive ten feet to the bottom of the pool and retrieve a ten pound weight. Once the weight was brought to the surface we were supposed to tread water for two minutes while keeping the weight above the water line. This appeared to be simple so I dived in, expecting an easy time. I had no trouble getting the weight to the surface and proceeded to tread water with a feeling of undoubtable success. But once again my anti-floating physical quality began to take effect. At one minute and thirty seconds I began to sink and within the next fifteen seconds my head was submerged and I was fighting for air. The water from the pool began flowing into my mouth with each desperate grasp for air; it felt as if an ocean were draining into my body. I remember hearing from under the water the instructor's muffled voice counting down the last ten seconds of the exercise. When it was all over I slowly made my way back to the pool's edge where I was informed by the two young girls that they had no difficulty