how do you prevent from doing a bellyflop when diving?

Question

tommorow is my swimmeet. i need to know how to dive without doing a painful bellyflop. i know i suck... i don't even know why i signed up for a stupid swim meet in the first place anyways.

i heard that you have to tuck in your chin... if you don't... will you do a belly flop?

Answer 1

Keep your chin tucked in and lean forward. Whenever I came off the block, I usually looked at my feet to make sure I went in head first.

Answer 2

There are a number of practices you can do that will help you develop your diving.
First, try and perform handstands - if you can handstand then you can get your head down as many people advise, plus you are able to rotate.
Secondly, try and perform a forwards somersault in the water - this will give you more practice at rotating over yourself.
Thirdly, do a somersault into the water from the edge - this will help your rotation and feel of entering the water from the side BUT do not flip
Fourthly, perform a succession of dives, each getting harder - a sitting dive, a kneeling dive, a crouching dive, a standing dive.

In the short term for your meet get into position - toes over the edge, knees bent, arms up and head in between your arms looking at where you are hoping to enter the water (even if seemingly optimistic). Then lean forwards until you are about to fall in and then spring through your bent knees keeping your head down between your arms.

Good luck on the dive and your swim

Answer 3

Ask a lifeguard or swimming instructor to guide you through the basic progression of diving skills from the edge of the pool. Once you accomplished those skills, you can try to follow a similar progression from the low board. First kneeling, the crouching, then standing and lifting one leg in back of you. And finally finally by walking into the dive and eventually using a proper diver's approach. Go back to the basics.

Yes, keep your chin tucked in and push off with your toes. Do not pick up your head as soon as you hit the water and use your outstretched hands to guide you to the surface, always keeping your ears between your biceps. Obviously, you are not aligning your body, you may be picking your head up, you may not be getting a hard enough push-off to help you slide through the water (and you're just dropping onto the surface). Remember also to keep your legs squeezed together and keep those knees straight (don't bend them as you hit the water). You cannot really learn skills by reading... some supervised practice is required. Good luck and best wishes.

Answer 4

There's a couple of ways you can dive in off of the starting blocks, some work better for some people while the other people use the other techniques.

Here's my list of how to dive in off the blocks, but they're mostly for speed, not to prevent a belly-flop:

1. Both feet at the edge, leaning over a bit. This is what I use being a rather inexperienced swimmer as I am. But if the starting judge says "stand up" you're almost guaranteed to fall in, but one time in comp. I stood up while almost falling in.

2: Both feet over the edge leaning back. With this technique you have to pull yourself forward, and I think I'll be switching to this method if I can get some extra practice in. You go in much more shallower and come up much sooner so it's good for people with oxygen problems like high blood pressure or people who're just not used to the oxygen rotation.

3: One foot over the edge, one foot back and leaning back. Most experienced swimmers use this technique like the seniors on my swim team. They pull themselves forward and do the butterfly arm movement and go in from there. But if your back foot hurts really bad after you do it it means your foot is slipping off and not getting you any real tractions so switch to 1 or 2.

Answer 5

by tucking your chin before you dive, you will be able to thrust your head out to give you more momentum. by doing so, it does help prevent a bellyflop.

Answer 6

A "Belly Flop" is exactly is what it sounds- that is, you enter the water by hitting it stomach first. The opposite of doing a belly flop is to do a "cannon ball"- once again, the name tells you what to do- that is, enter the water running at a high speed, hands over your head into a point, and literally glide into the water.

Good Luck on the Swim Meet

Answer 7

Put your hands above your head over hand over the other, tuck your chin, feet together, lean forward and keep your legs straight. If your legs aren't straight, they go under you and make you flop!

Answer 8

if you don't have great dives, first of all, don't start out by jumping out too far. look at the spot you want to enter the water, tuck your chin, and my coaches always tell me: stick your butt up.

Answer 9

tuck your chin in and look at your tummy
head first straight into the water
butts up
stay closer to the water (lower)
your arms should squeeze ears and keep feet togeter
good luck, i hope this helps

Answer 10

shop your chin on your chest, palms in a streamline place, bend over ninety ranges at waist lean out around the water, %. up one in each of your ft at the back of you and fall in. do not ruin your streamline or raise your head up. I disagree related to the pushing off. it is probable to effect interior the flop via fact too a number of of your physique floor enters the water on the same time. in case you fall in and don't ruin streamline the palms and head enter previously the tummy.