Is it Hard to Dive into The Water?

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Answer 1

No, its easy to dive as long as you are not afrid of the deep water ....... you will ust need to practice your techinique for awhile but you will be fine ....... = )

Answer 2

Depends on a variety of factors. But, the actual motion of diving downward is ridicuously easy thanks to that wonderful help from gravity.

However, depending on altitude prior to jumping and swimming proficiency, as well as practice and physical dexterity and/or body limitations diving can be surprisingly hard.

1a.  Altitude, from a high enough distance, water can feel like concrete.  Water has some surface tension which presents resistance to entry into the body of water.  A proper diving technique will minimize this and allow one to dive from a greater height while experience nominal dive-related discomfort.  A proper head first or toe first entry from 15 feet is much more comfortable than a belly flop from even 5 feet.  Regardless of entry style, a fall from over 150 feet will exhibit the same characteristics as hitting concrete as far as the human body is concerned.

1b. Practice helps make dives more consistent.  Ideally you go in like a sewing needle would go through fabric.  Fabric might be soft but try pressing a needle longitudinally through the fabric...Pretty hard eh?

1c.  Body limitations can make diving very hard.  The lack of proper appendages can make it impossible to jump, and the presence of such features as a wheel chair can make ladder climbing very difficult as well as swimming back to the surface.  (Common sense rules apply here)  Make sure you can swim before you ever jump into water, or make sure someone's there to pull you out if you're prone to aspirating large quantities of water.

Always, it's important that the water depth is appropriate for the height of dive.  

I'm sure someone has good advice, but in general you should never dive into water that's less than 8 feet, and for a dive board exceeding 5 foot the water probably should be at least 15 ft. deep, although I'm sure there are a variety of good resources to look up specific numbers for terminal velocity diving, recommended safe water depths, and similar topics and prior to digging a hole in your back yard you may want to look into these.

Answer 3

It's not necessarily hard, it's how prepared you are with things like technique and such.

It took me a long time to get used to diving but eventually you develop your own techniques like how curved your stomach should be because of course everyone is physically different with various things but once you learn the basics you'll be ready to dive right in after some practicing. Overlap your hands while keeping them open, keep your arms and legs straight and keep your chin close to your chest and you should be alright. If your goggles come off by any chance it probably means you're doing something wrong with your diving technique, typically that would be a sign that your arms aren't straight enough or that you should lower them a little bit when you hit the water. Of course it'll take a while to get it down but after that it won't be hard. Also if you're talking about diving from a starting block there's two methods to use: the level start or the track start. The track start is more for advanced swimmers, you have your stronger foot back and you sort of jump off of the block to start, kind of like a relay start.

Answer 4

Its not the dive that is hard, its really quite easy, bu t the practice and getting over the fear of  jumping head first into something that you need to work on. i learned to dive when i was five. so its not that difficult.