This parabola can be created anywhere. As long as you can get into a pike position, the location does not really matter. However, a diving board helps the diver to jump up higher to create a more distinguished parabola. Diving can be found in most first world countries. It is an olympic sport and has been competed since the late nineteenth century.
Diving was first introduced as a sport in the Summer Olympics of 1904 in St. Louis. Diving itself has evolved throughout the twentieth century. At the time, …show more content…
It attracts spectators from a variety of different sports. This is mainly because diving is very beautiful when the diver completes the dive with good form, a high jump that is not too close to the board, but not too far out, and he enters the water with very minimal splash and a hollow stomach. This attracts people to come watch which adds to the finances of a certain city, province, or region. Diving impacts people not only in the obvious way of teaching them cool tricks, but it teaches them how to overcome fear and how to work through difficulties and challenges of potentially losing a dive, or smacking on a dive and having to redo it. As I mentioned previously, diving is an olympic sport. This also brings people together to watch diving. Politically diving affects people’s health. There is no cabinet level department that is dedicated to sports and diving does not majorly impact politics. However, the Presidential Council of Physical Fitness and Sports advises the President through the Secretary of Health and Human Services about physical activities and sports. When it comes to party politics, the Republican Party, the most major Right-Wing political party in America endorses more emphasis on funding sports. Diving in a way can distinguish social classes. Due to diving not being a very common sport, it requiring extreme dedication, and causes coaches to spend long hours at the pool, it requires a very high tuition which not