A question about Olympic diving, or competition diving in general. ?

Question

This is probably a stupid question, but do they get extra marks for diving from a handstand position since it's not technically an in dive manoeuvre?

I would have thought it would be when they become air bound (if tha's the word) and when they dive from that position their moves on the way down look simpler.

Answer 1

Yes They Do.. Because Its More Creative and More They Can Do..

Answer 2

in competition, the divers are being judged on almost everything they do,and this includes their leadup as well as the dive. for some dives the leadup is a hurdle, a basic jump or an armstand, and you are judged on your execution/quality of what you did and not the difficulty of the skill.  

Answer 3

Yes, they do.

Answer 4

Diving isn't quite like gymnastics where adding elements, like armstands, adds points.   In platform diving there are 6 dive categories, front, backwards, reverse, inward, twisting and armstand, and 4 positions, straight, pike, tuck, and free.  

Each dive has a degree of difficulty that is constant amongst all divers.  

When judging a dive, more points are not added just because a diver starts from a handstand, it is part of the degree of difficulty.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

Yes , i think they do !  No matter how easy they make

it look to us, It is still so much training to perfect any

of these moves.  

I would be so disorientated !  they are quite clever.

Answer 7

I'm a high school swimmer (I've also watched many diving rounds during my still-active career) but to be perfectly honest I've never seen a high school swimmer do a handstand dive; I think it's just too complicated but I just wanted to say that to get that bias out of the way; all I know about handstand dives have come from watching the Olympics on TV.

To be perfectly honest I believe it affects their degree of difficulty slightly but they could make it easier in regards to things like how many rotations or somersaults they do so it's really hard to tell. A handstand, however, does have more possibilities for receiving deductions on scores for a whole multitude of reasons (improper balance, pushing out too far ect.) so that's probably why handstand dives are done very rarely (each diver in the round of 20 is required to do at least one handstand dive).