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[quote=Anonymous]Anyway, after becoming somewhat educated on racing dives.  There are a number of things that can go wrong in a racing dive.  It's like those kids diving torpedos.  Whenever you drop them in the pool they never go straight into the water.  The front hits then they turn almost randomly.  Also, depending on how you hit the water, you can convert the gravitational energy into an intense amount of forward speed.  I am untrained large adult, and I often have issues with hitting the bottom of the pool even doing racing dives from the sides of the nine/ten foot pools.  It's like wow, that floor in the six/five-foot section is coming at me fast.  You have to be able to control it.  Furthermore, what I took issue with my daughter during the tryout, is you can end up doing a belly flop or cause strain on your neck, and just totally ruin the rest of your tryout (Those coaches definitely didn't have enough taste to give us a second tryout, or calm her down after that).  Also, there are issues with collisions kids in other lanes remember those diving torpedoes etc. they can spin sideways as well as down.  They won't let them do racing dives even from the springboards in the deep diving wells, because there just isn't enough space for them to slow down before hitting the crowded areas.  [/quote]

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