- Title
- Retention of safe diving skills
- Creator
- Blitvich, Jennifer; McElroy, G. Keith; Blanksby, Brian; Parker, H. E.
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59623
- Identifier
- vital:118
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S1440-2440(03)80251-7
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-2440
- Abstract
- This study investigated diving skill maintenance over an eight-month retention period following an intervention program. Thirty-four recreational swimmers with poor diving skills were measured before and immediately after a diving skills intervention program. Twenty-two returned for follow-up evaluation. Treadwater, Deck and Block dives were video-recorded, and maximum depth, distance, velocity, entry angle and flight distance were compared. Underwater hand and arm positions were examined. Pre-intervention, a breaststroke arm action before maximum depth occurred in 18% of all dives and 38% of Treadwater dives. This was eliminated post-intervention, improving head protection. The Treadwater dive elicited the greatest mean maximum depth, and ANOVA showed depth for this entry decreased (improved) following intervention and remained shallower at follow-up. Deck and Block dives also became shallower following intervention. As seven 10-minute skills sessions resulted in shallower dives with safer hand and arm positions, including safe diving skills in learn-to-swim programs can provide a diving spinal cord injury prevention strategy.; C1
- Publisher
- Sports Medicine Australia
- Relation
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 6, no. 2 (2003), p. 155-165
- Rights
- Copyright Elsevier
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; Spinal-cord injury; Cervical-spine; Prevention
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