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i want to learn how to dive for softball?
i am a freshman and i play for my school softball team. i already have learned how to slide properly but i still want to learn how to dive dack to bases so i can get a bigger lead off. are there any drills, websights, ect. that can help me? also can you get hurt eayser when diving as opposed to sliding?
where i live i can lead off/steal after the ball leaves the pitchers hand. its legal to dive too.
Let me preface this by saying, as an umpire, I see many, many different styles of diving back to a bag, and honestly, very few players at a sub-varsity level (and even at a varsity level!) know how to do this properly. There have actually been many studies (medically) about sliding feet first versus sliding head first. It is important to note that there is an increased risk of serious injury associated with head-first sliding, as opposed to feet first sliding. Generally, with head-first sliding back to a base, a player wants their knee(s) to hit first, then their torso -- arms and hands are usually left slightly off the ground so that they might strike the base unobstructed by contact with the ground (not to mention that sliding an unprotected arm along a hard dirt ground will definately cause a nice cut, I once cut the back of my hand on the warning track in center field during my playing days, going for a fly ball - I caught the ball, brought it back, and fell, back-of-hand first, onto the ground -- not pretty, but I digress). When sliding head-first, you never want to bury your head, even though looking straight ahead might leave you meeting a cleated enemy -- this is a main disadvantage of sliding head first.
Diving head-first, much like sliding head-first is equally dangerous for similar reasons. But, to execute this, first get into your position that you'd assume right before a dive "the runner's ready position" on a lead-off. Then, pretend a gust of wind, directed particularly at your upper body, is pushing you back to first base (your left side). Push off on your right foot, while allowing your torso to fall downward to the first base direction. Simultanously take all weight off of the left leg. First thing to hit is usually going to be your left knee -- to alleviate this stress, you might want to stretch out, trying to get your torso down at a similar time (but not before). In the dive, your hand often will slide across the dirt to the bag, which is why the dive can hurt sometimes.
There is no significant difference in speed between head-first and feet-first sliding at all levels of play, up to and including the collegiate level. HOWEVER, the most important thing to note is that at every level (up to and including collegiate ball), feet-first sliding on average takes less time (but not significantly less) to execute, mostly because players must take extra precautions when sliding head-first not to injure themselves, thus head-first sliding proves to be more a disadvantage more of the time.
Diving has a higher probability of getting you injured than does sliding because diving is usually not as taught, and usually is not as easy to put into practice in game situations. Sliding is usually anticipated in a game. Diving is not.
Like everything else, the only way you will learn is to practice this, especially with your coaches. Have them help you. You will learn infinately more from their wisdom than you will from online assistance.
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He Chong of China competes in the men jump 3m springboard final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 19, 2008. [Agencies]
BEIJING - China swept the first six diving gold at Beijing Olympics after He Chong won the three-meter springboard title here on Tuesday.
He, 21, ranked No. 1 in the world, led all the way to collect 572.90 points.
Golden Boy Canadian Alexandre Despatie, event silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, won silver again in 536.65, while the bronze went to Qin Kai China to 530.10.
"I have acted consistently in the end, he said, this year, winning the World Cup." I trained hard for four years and now I have proved myself. "
"I was very excited at the end," he said. "But I said quietly.
"I particularly want to thank my coach. He encouraged me when I was down.
Qin, 22 years, won the event in 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, followed Despatie in the final and tried very hard to beat, but not yet.
"I am very happy with my performance today" Said the 23-year-old Despatie, who won the bronze medal in synchronized 3-springboard meters. "I had one years extremely difficult to achieve in February to finish fifth at the World Cup, which was not the result I want. And I have a back injury.
"Before the Olympics, I I broke my foot," said the boy gold medalist silver at the World Championships in Melbourne in 2007. "I started with a 3m springboard preliminary poor.
Despatie has had a year difficult. He broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during a training session in April this year, which hampered his training program Olympic Games Beijing 2008.
"But today, I held six solid dives, which is incredible, is very satisfying for me winning the silver medal.
"I am satisfied with the bronze medal. I did, but he did superbly. The competitors are all very strong. "
Tsar of Russia "dive" Dmitry Sautin, who just won a silver medal in the springboard for synchronization, was fourth at 512.65.
Beijing Olympic Games is the fifth Olympic Games Sautin participated, and also the last. The icon Diving Russia has made an almost perfect dive in the last round in his last Olympics immersion, which received 99.75, the highest of its six dives, and the second round.
Yahel Castillo of Mexico is the only diver who can perform 5355B, two and a half somersault and two and reverse a half twist in the Pike position, which is 3.9 degree of difficulty, have managed to take the seventh 462.10.
China hopes to cleaning in the Water Cube at home. They have won eight gold medals at the last meeting of the Grand Prix diving at the FINA Rome in early July.
Since the Beijing Games, which took the first six gold medals.
The Chinese diving team asked five Olympic gold medals Sydeny 2000 and a record six Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, contributing more Olympic gold medals in China than in other sports.
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