Any explanation? Except that it's a low-skill endeavor so the talent pool is essentially proportional to population size, and is a good target for "easy medals" by central planners?
Any explanation? Except that it's a low-skill endeavor so the talent pool is essentially proportional to population size, and is a good target for "easy medals" by central planners?
They are compact and good at flipping. Makes them good at gymnastics, also.
Pike position wrote:
Any explanation? Except that it's a low-skill endeavor so the talent pool is essentially proportional to population size, and is a good target for "easy medals" by central planners?
No it is not a target to easy medals, diving takes a great deal of skill. China is so good because it plays to their body types and require a specific physical infrastructure. Most of the world can't train year-round because they don't have access to a diving pool where they live. Whereas, the Chinese have a true national training program where athletes live and train sport's academies. Also, most of the world don't start 'highly' structured diving training until their teens, whereas the Chinese start around age 5 or 6.
Italians are also good divers, these mtrfrs
diving takes a great deal of skill.
Doesn't gravity do most of the work for you?
It looks about half as hard as the pole vault to me, and really the downward half should be easier IMO.
Why isn't there jumping down into a inflatable cushion in T&F?
Typical LRC poster boy wrote:
diving takes a great deal of skill.Doesn't gravity do most of the work for you?
Username checks out.
What goes up, then comes down wrote:
Why isn't there jumping down into a inflatable cushion in T&F?
Don't forget the synchronized version too.
Up they go, down they go wrote:
What goes up, then comes down wrote:Why isn't there jumping down into a inflatable cushion in T&F?
Don't forget the synchronized version too.
Or the version where you pass through a hoop on your way down.
Short levers, flat bum, no arch in back, narrow shoulders
They like indoor sports because the air is so terrible there not good for distance runners.
no shoulders, no asses, no splashes.
end of story.
The females start practicing getting dropped into a pool/pond/river as soon as they are born.
Im going to suggest mentality. Specifically the mentality to complete thousands of repetitions of each dive. I havent read about diving specifically, but in golf I've read articles where these Asian ladies spend hours upon hours hitting the sameshots over and over. Probably the same is true for diving. Especially considering if they arent on the dive team, its off to some factory where theyll get to put that mentality to use.
The Chinese often takes gymnasts who get frequently injured and send them over to the pool for diving.
I would say the world talent level in diving is pretty shallow (yes I will go with that pun).
A history of success. Success breeds success to a large extent. Look at US Distance running. It went through a very dark period (Sydney 2000) and then a few "heroes" emerged and performances have been improving.
Then add in rewards from the state that make it a viable career.
happybritishgal wrote:
They are compact and good at flipping. Makes them good at gymnastics, also.
Makes them good in bed too
I'm guessing that China uses a similar development strategy to Russia: select kids young, and train them full time for the sport they've been selected for. Diving seems like it would work really well with this model. It's all about perfect execution of a practiced movement, so relentless drilling will be way more effective than it might be for other sports.
it's practice those stupid dives or make iPhones, one is mind numbing, the other even more mind numbing.
Divers are slightly less dumb than the typical world class swimmer but only just.
Kung Fu
They dive into the ground because they are a failed dictatorship.