Reply to: Could you do it?

[ladymuck]

No. Not ever.

[BlasterBates]

[NotAllThere]

No way. No how. Not ever. I had enough trouble doing the 3m. I could do that by switching my mind off and just walking forward. Keep legs together, arms by your side and you'll be fine. The choppier the water is, the less it can hurt. Don't lose your head and try a belly-flop... I'm sorry, I got that the wrong way round...

My head is fine, but like the young man in the video, my knees buckle. It's most strange. I don't feel scared at height emotionally, but my legs are terrified.

[vetran]

Did it in my teens the local pool's diving board was 10m.

[NickFitz]

It reminded me of when I was about twelve or thirteen and used to go swimming a lot at the local pool. Having eventually summoned up the courage to dive from the 3m board, I started venturing up to the 5m platform, where I'd dither for ages exactly like those people before ignominiously climbing back down the ladder

I made it off there after a few months though, so I hope I'd manage to go off a 10m one as well, even if it took a while

[xoggoth]

Dunno. Meant to go on the zip wire when I was last in Croatia but chickened out.

[Hobosapien]

In her youth, SWMBO would routinely go off a board that high, but she was getting close to Olympic standard as a diver before injuring her neck off a much lower board into not quite enough water.

She could still make a standing dive in from the side of a pool without making a splash until comparatively recently!!!

Never understood why she married a complete non-swimmer who sees diving as just a difficult way to get wet....

Maybe you were good at a different type of diving.

In related news, whenever they have a local news piece about the beavers being reintroduced into the wild, to help protect against flooding downstream, I am still waiting for the presenters to crack up about any potential innuendo. They must be pros.

[clearedforlanding]

Yes. In Bali in March of this year at a waterfall. Started at 5M, then did the 10M, backed out of the 15M.

The 10M took a lock longer to fall down than expected.

[AtW]

Never understood why she married a complete non-swimmer who sees diving as just a difficult way to get wet....

Big life insurance?

[malvolio]

In her youth, SWMBO would routinely go off a board that high, but she was getting close to Olympic standard as a diver before injuring her neck off a much lower board into not quite enough water.

She could still make a standing dive in from the side of a pool without making a splash until comparatively recently!!!

Never understood why she married a complete non-swimmer who sees diving as just a difficult way to get wet....

[AtW]

Don't try it sober

[Hobosapien]

I've jumped off a 5 metre pier into the ocean and that was frightening enough. But it was absolutely exhilarating and I did it again and again afterwards. And I suppose that is the psychology of it.

My parents' labrador was same first time on a beach where there is a little bridge across a stream. Spent more time jumping off that bridge into the stream than running about on the sand. A few other dogs joined in after a while. Must be some sort of evolutionary instinct, or the lemming gene.

[OwlHoot]

Thirty feet? Yeah, complete doddle, although I'd jump off holding my crotch.

They say anything up to about two hundred feet is pretty much OK, with a reasonable body position on reaching the water, but much more than that and your accumulated speed means the water just doesn't have time to be displaced and is like concrete when you hit it!

Also, olympic pools have an air blower at the bottom of the pool below the diving boards, and the diffuse stream of underwater bubbles greatly "softens" the water.

[ChimpMaster]

I've jumped off a 5 metre pier into the ocean and that was frightening enough. But it was absolutely exhilarating and I did it again and again afterwards. And I suppose that is the psychology of it.

[ladymuck]

The older lady around 8 minutes was my favourite. It was strangely fascinating to watch.