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Old 12-02-05 | 10:46 AM
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From: A land that time forgot

Bikes: the ever shifting stable loaded with comfortable road bikes and city and winter bikes

this was a segregated diving pool to begin with, then all you bikers started riding right on in. The lap pool is a seperate animal altogther.

this analogy is to illustrate that, regardless of how much specialized education is offered to allow diving from higher platforms, most all of the divers will still choose to dive from a much lower level. However, regardless of how far a diver drops, the mechanics of diving are IDENTICAL in motion.

A diver on the 10 meter platform needs to recognize that most of the pool users will be on the lower springboards. Always. Even if they have the ability to dive from a higher platform, which a diver does, because the mechanics are the same.

The lap pool, that's a whole 'nother bucket of trouble, with lane stripes and able swimming versus lane hogs and lane rage.
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