﻿{"id":157105,"date":"2015-10-14T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=157105"},"modified":"2015-10-14T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:38:39","slug":"diving-why-do-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/diving-why-do-we-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving: Why Do We Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Molly Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For as long as I&#8217;ve been diving, people have asked me question upon question about the sport &#8211; they range from questions about\u00a0mechanics to technique to how scared we get when &#8220;throwing ourselves&#8221; off the board. People are curious about all sorts of things, but the one question I hear most often\u00a0boils down to: &#8220;How do you do it?&#8221; or better yet, &#8220;<i>Why<\/i> do you do it?&#8221; Sometimes it&#8217;s preceded with &#8220;diving seems so scary,&#8221; other times it&#8217;s followed by &#8220;I would never be able to do it.&#8221; No matter how it&#8217;s asked, it never fails to make me think long and hard about the sport to which I&#8217;ve committed myself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, divers, why do we do it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A typical practice consists of constant\u00a0repetition of the dives you already know how to do, as well as learning new dives. When it comes to new dives, no matter how many lead ups you&#8217;ve done, no matter how many times your coach tells you you&#8217;re ready, and no matter how many times you tell yourself you&#8217;re ready, there&#8217;s always that one thing in the back of your mind: smacking.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of hitting the water so hard, and at such a wrong angle, that you can give\u00a0your self a bruise, or even a concussion, is incredibly daunting. But it&#8217;s also a part of everyday life when it comes to diving. Sometimes your foot slips, sometimes you crow hop or kick out too late or too early and things will go awry. So they&#8217;re not wrong, diving can be incredibly scary &#8211; sometimes I&#8217;d even describe it as terrifying &#8211; but even then, there&#8217;s something there, amidst the nerves and smacks, that keeps us coming back for more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143022\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deidre-freeman-diving-pan-am-games-2015-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143022\" data-attachment-id=\"143022\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pan-am-games-diving-34\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deidre-freeman-diving-pan-am-games-2015-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1589\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Jul 13, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, USA; Deidre Freeman of the United States competes in the women&#039;s 3m springboard final during the 2015 Pan Am Games at Pan Am Aquatics UTS Centre and Field House. 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Mandatory Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports NPStrans&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher\/USA Today Sports Images&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deidre-freeman-diving-pan-am-games-2015-1-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deidre-freeman-diving-pan-am-games-2015-1-1024x636.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143022\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deidre-freeman-diving-pan-am-games-2015-1-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Jul 13, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, USA; Deidre Freeman of the United States competes in the women's 3m springboard final during the 2015 Pan Am Games at Pan Am Aquatics UTS Centre and Field House. Mandatory Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher\/USA Today Sports Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On top of being physically and mentally taxing, diving can be emotionally exhausting. More times than I&#8217;d like to admit, I&#8217;ve found myself crying out of the sheer frustration that comes along with messing up a dive over and over and over again. I&#8217;ll get it on the next one, we\u00a0tell ourselves, this correction should be easy. When we\u00a0mess up again, it&#8217;s difficult not to be too hard on ourselves. Even in meet settings, when we\u00a0have to put on our brave, competition\u00a0faces, it&#8217;s hard to maintain composure when we\u00a0don&#8217;t perform at the standard of which we believe we&#8217;re capable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So again, I ask: divers, why do we do it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the exhilaration of\u00a0doing a dive correctly for the first time, or the satisfaction that comes from finally ripping and earning 8&#8217;s and 9&#8217;s on a dive you&#8217;ve been working on for weeks. Maybe it&#8217;s seeing the look of pure elation on your teammate&#8217;s face when they finally make their conference or national&#8217;s cut, or the kind, supportive camaraderie shared between all divers during\u00a0meets. The silence of the crowd when you step up on the board, the refreshing rush of water over your entire body as you enter the water, and the roaring applause when you finally emerge from below.<\/p>\n<p>All of this encourages us to keep going, to persevere, to be better. As counterintuitive as it sounds, there&#8217;s something about messing up a new dive that makes us want to climb back up onto the board as fast as we can, telling ourselves, &#8220;I can do better than that. 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They reward us, they keep us grounded, they make us feel powerful and capable, and most importantly, they motivate us to keep coming back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s why we do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Molly Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern For as long as I&#8217;ve been diving, people have asked me question upon question about the sport &#8211; they range from questions about\u00a0mechanics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":143218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-diving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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