{"id":31756,"date":"2025-07-14T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31756"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:23:32","slug":"how-to-perfect-your-dive-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31756","title":{"rendered":"How to Perfect Your Dive This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug Beavers was always a reluctant swimmer. Doing laps for swim team as a kid was boring, and toiling away in the cold water first thing in the morning made his heart sink. He often found himself staring longingly at the dive team on the other side of the pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they were doing looked way more fun,\u201d said Mr. Beavers, now a dive coach at George Mason University. There was the childlike joy of bouncing on the board, the thrill of flying through the air and the goofiness of a dive that didn\u2019t land quite right. Plus, hitting one well was sublimely satisfying.<\/p>\n

Leaping carefree into the water isn\u2019t just for kids \u2014 grown-ups can play, too. Recreational diving isn\u2019t about getting a workout. The appeal lies more in the challenge \u2014 and pure joy of it. But executing a proper dive can be tricky, and most adults have never been taught proper form. So how do you get started?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Learning to dive is like building a Lego set, <\/em>Mr. Beavers said. You learn one skill, then add pieces, then build on it. \u201cIf you skip anything, the dive is always going to be a little wobbly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyone at any ability level can dive, as long as you can swim in deep water. It just takes practice and a willingness to belly flop on occasion.<\/p>\n

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Doug Beavers was always a reluctant swimmer. Doing laps for swim team as a kid was boring, and toiling away in the cold water first thing in the morning made his heart sink. He often found himself staring longingly at the dive team on the other side of the pool.\u201cWhat they were doing looked way more fun,\u201d said Mr. Beavers, now a dive coach at George Mason University. There was the childlike joy of bouncing on the board, the thrill of flying through the air and the goofiness of a dive that didn\u2019t land quite right. Plus, hitting one well was sublimely satisfying.Leaping carefree into the water isn\u2019t just for kids \u2014 grown-ups can play, too. Recreational diving isn\u2019t about getting a workout. The appeal lies more in the challenge \u2014 and pure joy of it. But executing a proper dive can be tricky, and most adults have never been taught proper form. So how do you get started?Learning to dive is like building a Lego set, Mr. Beavers said. You learn one skill, then add pieces, then build on it. \u201cIf you skip anything, the dive is always going to be a little wobbly.\u201dAnyone at any ability level can dive, as long as you can swim in deep water. It just takes practice and a willingness to belly flop on occasion.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31758,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31759,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31756\/revisions\/31759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}