{"id":234181,"date":"2016-12-26T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=234181"},"modified":"2016-12-24T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T16:42:41","slug":"learning-to-dive-trusting-yourself-in-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/learning-to-dive-trusting-yourself-in-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Dive: Trusting Yourself in Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erin Himes, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I hopped in my local pool while on winter break this week, I looked over at the club team practicing with younger kids. They were working on sprints from the blocks, and I watched as kid after kid bellyflopped into the pool. I instantly thought back to when I was in that place. I, now a collegiate swimmer, had been club swimming for three years before I mastered diving. I was nine years old before I ever flawlessly dove into the pool without lifting my chin.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212141\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212141\" data-attachment-id=\"212141\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/why-no-one-should-pass-up-swim-lessons\/kids-diving-harlem-ymca\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3666,2444\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chasi Annexy&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1398791388&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Chasi Annexy, 2014&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;5\/4\/17&lt;br \/&gt;\nkids-diving-Harlem-YMCA posted 7\/12&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Chasi Annexy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-212141\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"kids-diving-Harlem-YMCA\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-212141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Chasi Annexy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When you think about it, learning to dive is terrifying. To believe when someone tells you that if you put your chin down and don\u2019t watch what\u2019s happening you will be okay just doesn\u2019t sound real. It was a source of anxiety for me. Learning to trust other people\u2019s knowledge and having confidence in my own ability to do it did not come easy, clearly, as I struggled through endless private lessons centered on diving.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when I thought about it today, I saw that the process of learning to dive parallels many of the lessons I learned much later from swimming. Diving as a kid is something we&#8217;re afraid of or that often makes us nervous. For me, this was the same effect racing had later on. Just as I once had to trust a coach who said if I put my head down I would dive, I later struggled to trust a coach who said if I believed I could go best times, I would. As I once learned to have enough confidence to just go for that first dive, I later learned that the only way I would drop time is if\u00a0I believed I could do it and went for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203653\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203653\" data-attachment-id=\"203653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/12-types-of-swimmers-entering-the-pool-for-warmup\/tyler-clary-bellyflop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tyler-clary-bellyflop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,417\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tyler-clary-bellyflop\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;tyler-clary-bellyflop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Tyler Clary&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tyler-clary-bellyflop-700x417.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tyler-clary-bellyflop.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203653\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tyler-clary-bellyflop-700x417.jpg\" alt=\"tyler-clary-bellyflop\" width=\"700\" height=\"417\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-203653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Tyler Clary<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Diving into a pool for the first time, you&#8217;re faced with three options: to succeed, to bellyflop and be in pain, or to give up and jump. These are the options we&#8217;re given through the rest of our swimming careers too. Sometimes, we do something special or that we&#8217;ve never done before. It&#8217;s what makes all the hard work and growth so worth it. Other times, we flop. We try to do what we think is right, only to find ourselves in a lot of pain after a race with no results to show for it.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst of all is when we give up.\u00a0As a summer league coach, I was always much happier when a kid tried to dive and didn&#8217;t quite make it. The same is true later in our swimming careers. Giving in to the pain of a race or letting your technique slip because you&#8217;re\u00a0afraid of failing is never the way to do it. Just as we each\u00a0learned what to differently to dive correctly from bellyflopping, we learn the most from when we fall on our faces, not from when we give in to the pressure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145533\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145533\" data-attachment-id=\"145533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/so-you-think-you-can-swim-club\/rimpac-international-swim-meet\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/summer-swimming-meet-e1525914771909.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"993,753\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RIMPAC international swim meet\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;5-13-20&lt;br \/&gt;\n5\/9\/18&lt;br \/&gt;\n120706-F-MQ656-228 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 6, 2012) Sailors from the Royal New Zealand navy and U.S. Navy dive into the pool to start a 200-meter freestyle relay during a Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) international swim meet. Over one hundred Sailors from multiple nations gathered at Scott Pool to compete in a friendly swim meet and get to know each other prior to the start of the operational portion of RIMPAC 2012. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC exercise from Jun. 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world&#8217;s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the worlds oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth\/Released) DMA, Defense Media Activity, Defense Media Activity Hawaii News Bureau, Holzworth, RIMPAC, Swimming, U.S. Navy, Pearl Harbor, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, MQ656, Swim Meet, Scott Pool, RIMPAC 2012&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Michael R. Holzworth, TSgt, USAF&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/summer-swimming-meet-e1525914771909-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/summer-swimming-meet-e1464809056589-963x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145533\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/summer-swimming-meet-e1464809056589-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"120706-F-MQ656-228 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 6, 2012) Sailors from the Royal New Zealand navy and U.S. Navy dive into the pool to start a 200-meter freestyle relay during a Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) international swim meet. Over one hundred Sailors from multiple nations gathered at Scott Pool to compete in a friendly swim meet and get to know each other prior to the start of the operational portion of RIMPAC 2012. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC exercise from Jun. 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the worlds oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth\/Released)\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-145533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Michael R. Holzworth, TSgt, USAF<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These lessons we learn in the first months (or years, if you\u2019re me) of swimming are the ones that carry us far past the early years. Learning to trust yourself does not come easy at all, but it is the only way to succeed in a sport as mental as this one. If you believe you can do it and do anything in your power too, you&#8217;ll either succeed or fail, but either way you&#8217;re going to learn something valuable that will make you better later. So tomorrow when you head to Christmas training or next month at that big meet, remember that if you once believed you could dive when you never had, you can definitely do the things that seem impossible now.<\/p>\n<p><i>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Erin Himes, Swimming World College Intern As I hopped in my local pool while on winter break this week, I looked over at the club team practicing with younger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":196213,"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":[17],"tags":[44170,59899,59901,59900],"class_list":["post-234181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-erin-himes","tag-learn-to-dive","tag-lessons-in-swimming","tag-trust-yourself"],"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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