I now have a busy schedule

"Micheal Artindale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I now am a member of the local masters team. There is a race soon, and
plan to race a few events.

Today, I recieved a reply to an email sent back in the summer. The
local diving club (diving off boards into a pool, not scuba) will now
have adult classes on Mondays. Today was the first class. I was
horrible, but, I had fun.

I will continue.

So, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and sundays, I will be swimming
lenghts. Mondays are for Diving. And, Wednessdays are for scouts.

I think I will rest on Fridays.

Micheal

Diving looks like a lot of fun. There's not nearly as much of it as
there used to be because insurance regulations require deeper water than
many diving tanks and pools were built with, so they just take out the
diving boards and that's that.

We went to a local, high school diving club meet a few years ago - one
of my fellow lifeguards was competing. It really did look like a lot of
fun to do.

-S-

"Steve Freides" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Micheal Artindale" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I now am a member of the local masters team. There is a race soon, and
plan to race a few events.

Today, I recieved a reply to an email sent back in the summer. The local
diving club (diving off boards into a pool, not scuba) will now have
adult classes on Mondays. Today was the first class. I was horrible, but,
I had fun.

I will continue.

So, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and sundays, I will be swimming
lenghts. Mondays are for Diving. And, Wednessdays are for scouts.

I think I will rest on Fridays.

Micheal

Diving looks like a lot of fun. There's not nearly as much of it as there
used to be because insurance regulations require deeper water than many
diving tanks and pools were built with, so they just take out the diving
boards and that's that.

We went to a local, high school diving club meet a few years ago - one of
my fellow lifeguards was competing. It really did look like a lot of fun
to do.

-S-

I had a blast on Monday. I suck royally at it, but... Yes, it is fun. My
arms and legs were sore, and not from hitting the water. It is a different
kind of workout.

Micheal

Steve Freides said:

We went to a local, high school diving club meet a few years ago - one
of my fellow lifeguards was competing. It really did look like a lot of
fun to do.

-S-

I'm officiating a high school dual meet this Thursday, and I was told
there's a chance I might have to judge the diving as well. I'm
totally clueless--this should be interesting!

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Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, TX
http://davidclary.com

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Steve Freides said:

We went to a local, high school diving club meet a few years ago - one
of my fellow lifeguards was competing. It really did look like a lot of
fun to do.

-S-

I'm officiating a high school dual meet this Thursday, and I was told
there's a chance I might have to judge the diving as well. I'm
totally clueless--this should be interesting!

All I know is the scoring of a dive has two components: Whether the dive
is completed, and adherence to the ideal form. The difficulty is
factored out as the degree of difficulty. So all you really have to know
is what each dive is supposed to look like. Then you just decide whether
the diver completed the dive and how well the diver's form matched the
ideal form. If you do that, then you just have to be consistent.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:03:31 +0200, mwsmith <[email hidden]>

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All I know is the scoring of a dive has two components: Whether the dive
is completed, and adherence to the ideal form. The difficulty is
factored out as the degree of difficulty. So all you really have to know
is what each dive is supposed to look like. Then you just decide whether
the diver completed the dive and how well the diver's form matched the
ideal form. If you do that, then you just have to be consistent.

Thanks. I've spent a little time reading up on the dive descriptions
in the rule book. Perhaps I can move from "totally clueless" to
"barely competent." :-)

--
Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, TX
http://davidclary.com

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:03:31 +0200, mwsmith <[email hidden]>

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All I know is the scoring of a dive has two components: Whether the dive
is completed, and adherence to the ideal form. The difficulty is
factored out as the degree of difficulty. So all you really have to know
is what each dive is supposed to look like. Then you just decide whether
the diver completed the dive and how well the diver's form matched the
ideal form. If you do that, then you just have to be consistent.

Thanks. I've spent a little time reading up on the dive descriptions
in the rule book. Perhaps I can move from "totally clueless" to
"barely competent." :-)

If you can overcome the urge to include difficulty in your scores, and
if you can get the scale of your scores in the right ballpark, then if
you are consistent from one diver to the next, you're pretty much an expert.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:41:01 +0200, mwsmith <[email hidden]>

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If you can overcome the urge to include difficulty in your scores, and
if you can get the scale of your scores in the right ballpark, then if
you are consistent from one diver to the next, you're pretty much an expert.

Turns out there was no diving at this meet, and we didn't have a
single DQ. The only high school meets left on my schedule are big ones
where there will be dedicated diving judges. But I appreciate the
lesson nonetheless!

--
Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, TX
http://davidclary.com