Introduction to Diving

diving is about strength flexibility
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the sport of diving diving is classified
as an art as well as a sport beauty and
grace must be added to feats of strength
and agility while the body is moving
through the air the diver must have
total body control most diving
competitions consists of three
disciplines one metre three meter and
tower also known as the platform
competitive athletes are divided by
gender and often by age groups as well 1
and 3-meter dives are performed from a
springboard 5 through 10 meter dives are
performed from concrete or wooden
platforms diving is an international
recognized sport that is part of the
Olympic Games in addition unstructured
and non-competitive diving is a common
recreational pastime in places where
swimming is popular in recent past the
success of Greg Louganis led to American
strength internationally more recently
the greatest diving nation has been
China which came to prominence several
decades ago when the sport was
revolutionized by a national coach Lee
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