MAIN Recreation Sports Platform Diving

Watching trained athletes spring from a platform high above a pool and soar through the air performing complex maneuvers in the seconds before they enter the water is magical, but the training and skill it takes to make the dives look so graceful are gained through years of hard practice. Slapping the water on the way in after a poorly timed dive may be the best motivation for clean diving, but there's much more to it than that...

FINA - The international governing body of the sport has all of the information on national organizations, international rules and judging, a spotlight on Olympic diving and just about any information on platform or springboard diving that you could possibly need, or want, to know.

USA Diving - The complete info on diving in the USA - this link will bring you to an overall guide to the standard dives, but browse around the site for information on events, divers and the state of the sport in the US.

Diving Australia - Portal to information, history, competition calendar, team member profiles and photo gallery, plus official rules, background on Australian diving greats, related resources.

E-How Springboard Dives - Pictures would be better, but these pages give very detailed instructions on several dives along with a few hints to help correct problems and warnings based on safety issues. If you follow along, you should get a good idea of exactly what to expect from each of the dives the cover.

Great Britain Diving Federation (GBDF) - An active forum, good links, directory of places to dive in Britain and Ireland plus a very nice history section with brilliant graphics are the background for the events and results you'll find here.

Animation Lab - Platform Diving - The Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing has animations of 3 dives that are so life like they offer a comparison with the human it was modeled on. There is a bibliography for additional reference on both the dynamics of diving and the graphics involved with creating the animations, but for most visitors, this is just cool to watch.

also see -> Olympic Diving