Is there a way to cut back on diving?
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The tapes of the games should be reviewed afterwards and the divers should be fined.  It's hard for the on ice officials because everything happens so fast, but when you see it on tv dives are more obvious.
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PRESSURE getting less
980974
Yeah....but then how to distinguish a draw from a dive?  \n\nI see your point but this would be hard to keep track of and assess.
348151
It depends what kind of diving you mean. If you mean diving off blocks etc then you dont have to be especially great, just confident enough to be in the water. If you mean scuba diving, it does help but it is not vital. The main thing you do in diving is float along and kick your legs. you have fins on so you dont need to kick hard and you have a BCD (buoyancy control device) that helps you move up and down & keeps you afloat on the surface. I know someone who is a highly experienced diver but cannot swim.\nFor snorkelling, it does help. If there is a current or waves you could find yourself away from the boat and having to swim back. If it is nice and cal you just float and use your legs (with fins is better) to basically steer.\nHope this helps you
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As a swim instructor and lifeguard I can tell you that tying weights to yourself is a sure way of drowning. \n\nTo practice your swimming and to get stronger you will need to swim more then once a week. At least 2 to 3 times. Start at a small distance such as 500 total yards. You can break this down into ten 50 yard laps or five 100 yard laps etc.etc. Also switch strokes between the freestyle,breast stroke and back stroke.This will help your form as well as keep you from getting overdeveloped and having injury. \n\nAs for legs. Using a kick board you can do laps using the different kicks. Such as Flutter, whip and dolphin kicks. Adding fins will also help with speed and strength because it adds more resistants. \n\nTreading water while holding your hands above the water is also a good way to  get stronger. Do this for small amounts of time and work up. This is a favorite of my lifeguards. \n\nYou can also go to the US Swim Assoc. and they can help you get setup with plans. Also check out your local swim team.They are associated with the US Swim and can help coach you.
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Deep ocean travel requires two things:\nProtection from the enormous pressure\nAdequate supply of oxygen and breathing gas for the safe return to the surface.\n\nAs we dive deeper, our bodies are subjected to the increasing water pressure.  This is especially so if we dive only to depths of less than 100 meters.  As we dive deeper, our bodies are subjected to greater pressure.  Our blood absorbs MORE gas (namely nitrogen gas); as we return to the surface, the increased amount of nitrogen gas in the bloodstream begins to leave the bloodstream.\n\nIf divers return to the surface too fast, the nitrogen gas will bubble out too fast causing a painful and possibly fatal condition called "The Bends".  So, divers must "acclimate" to sea level pressure slowly.\n\nDivers who dive very deep must remain inside pressure chambers in which the air pressure is slowly reduced to sea level pressure, gently allowing the (bloodstream's) absorbed nitrogen gas to escape safely.
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50 meters can be a long time if you're not in shape, but my guess is you're kicking like mad.\n\nWhat I would do is get one of those flotation devices some people just call "boards".  Hang onto it with your hands way out in front of you and just kick your way across the pool.  You'll soon find a kicking style that works for you.\n\nAfter that, you can add yours arms back in.
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I just use the Valsalva method; the pinch your nose and blow. Fortunately, I've not had trouble equalizing. It was so sad the weekend I did my checkout dives because there was a teenage girl there with her dad, trying to do hers, and she just couldn't equalize.  In the end, her dad did all 4 dives and finished his certification, but she only was able to do one. \n\nFrom what I've been reading, it seems that the mantra is "equalize early and often".\n\nYay for scuba diving!! (although I am sad because this has been two weekends in a row without diving for me... nobody else is willing to brave 52º water in a wetsuit!)
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Despite our ability to adapt to environmental conditions, there must certainly come a point where the surrounding pressure would overwhelm the solid portion of our structure--crush bones, break cellular walls, that sort of thing.  Deep sea divers can't go to the bottom of the deepest trenches.  I don't know whether they are crushed first, or some other gruesome death takes them first, but eventually I imagine whatever is left of them would be crushed.
1083333
equip weights to your ankles and things on your hands that make it hard for you to swim.  those will help you out
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Cut down on your caffeine, nicotine, oxygen intake.
59173
Oh you so have to go back! I'm terribly sorry you got the concussion, but you can't let that keep you from pursuing a passion. Think of Greg Louganis. He hit his head on the platform DURING the olympics and was bleeding profusely and still climbed the ladder and made his next dive. When you are passionate about something, you can't let fear overwhelm you. Your first dive after the accident you will be cautious, but once you realize you have the ability and you feel that rush you used to feel when you would dive, your fears will wash away. So go for it! And I wanna see you in the next Olympics.......you hear me?? *wink*
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Since you are getting decent times I would assume that your stroke is pretty sound. To cut time in your swim work on the transitional parts of your swim. Work on your starts. Swimming short course? Work on your push off and your underwater glide. And of course work on finishing strong. Ask your coach or a fellow swimmer to help you with your stream lining. Also check your hand/arm position on your stroke. On your recovery, work on exploding forward into a long stretch into your glide.
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No, sorry... I was a diver and my sister is a diving/swimming coach. She went to state for her excellent diving skills from the time she was in 8th grade til she was in 12th... :D That doesn't help you much though. Does it? LOL
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To dive well, you must strengthen your entire core, but not in the way that swimmers usually train (get ready for some unorthodox stuff).  \n\nFor leg strength, I recommend doing single leg presses on a machine with as much weight as you can manage.  Don't do anymore than 4 per leg per day, and do it with supervision. \n\nThe best training for starts that I have seen or done involves a machine made by Hammer Strength called a Ground Base Jammer.  Most schools have these for their football players.  Get proper instruction before you use it, it's easy to hurt yourself.  This machine helps football linemen explode out of their stances and is VERY beneficial for strengthening your "start" muscles.\n\nFor technique, try these:\n\n1.  10x jump from block up as high as possible, put body into perfect streamline and land in water.  (you will hit water feet first and try to be perfectly vertical in the air)\n\n2.  10x like above, but pike in air and enter water hands first\n\n3.  10x easy starts, streamline as long as possible\n\n4.  5x racing starts (if you do your racing starts properly, you can only handle about 5-6 before you are exhausted and your form breaks).\n\nRemember- stay relaxed on the block, if you are gripping the block and pulling back, you are not relaxed.  When the gun sounds, explode FORWARD, not up.
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cuts off there oxygen supply
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Take a deep breath.\n\nAs you lower your head under the water, slowly blow out through your nose.  With practice, you will learn to do this very slowly or in short puffs to make your breath last longer.\n\nGood Luck!