Performance Diving Skills - Pool Night

Performance Diving Skills – Pool Night

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Come join Dive Addicts instructors for an evening of deliberate practice, where the goal is to actually get better (there will be no cards to collect in this program)! Our instructors have invested years and thousands of hours underwater and thousands more in classrooms to become some of the most experienced divers and instructors in the world. Just going diving will only get you so far… countless studies have been conducted in music, arts, chess, competitive sports and more to learn as much as possible about the elite performers and how they:

  1. Achieved not only expert, but elite status in the first place
  2. How they not only maintain their performance levels, but continue to improve

In these focused, guided practice session we plan on using cutting edge coaching and learning techniques to optimize your progression as a diver. Our goal is to give you the tools necessary to continue practicing and progressing more easily throughout your own diving and any training you choose to participate in throughout your diving life (whether that be with Dive Addicts, or anyone else!).

If you are curious and would like to learn more about our approach, please read the additional info in the “Notes on Practice” and “Notes on Becoming an Expert” tabs here on this page.

Notes on Practice

Practice doesn’t make perfect…. PERFECT PRACTICE makes perfect!

Simply diving more will not necessarily make you a better diver, especially if you are practicing doing things the wrong way.

Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence.

  1. Focus on the task at hand. Minimize potential distractions.
  2. Start out slowly or in slow-motion. Coordination is built with repetitions, whether correct or incorrect. If you gradually increase the speed of the quality repetitions, you have a better chance of doing them correctly.
  3. Next, frequent repetitions with allotted breaks are common practice habits of elite performers. 
  4. Practice in your brain in vivid detail. It’s a bit surprising, but a number of studies suggest that once a physical motion has been established, it can be reinforced just by imagining it.

Notes on Becoming an "Expert"

Experts have good mental representations, beginners do not.

Exam 1 COGS: mental representations Flashcards | Quizlet

  • For cave trim the expert will no longer have to think: feet up knees bent 90 degrees fins flat, arms out in front , body horizontal, butt tightened, back arched.
    • An expert just thinks “Cave trim”.
    • The info is immediately accessible it is encoded mentally.
    • This allows us to bypass the limitations of our short term memory
  • Expert performers have more and better mental representations to make faster and more accurate decisions and to respond more quickly and efficiently.
    • Compare hitting a baseball coming at 90 miles (145 km) an hour. This should be physically impossible…
      • An expert makes a decision before it leaves the pitchers hand- based on an accurate mental representation.
      • An expert shooter notices misses or needed corrections before it is too late, possibly before they even receive visual feedback off a miss (or even before they pull the trigger!).

Some students already have some mental representations of what it is to be good. They will be able to give themselves feedback and improve even when not in front of an instructor critiquing them. This may come from watching videos or analyzing other divers. As they do something correctly, they can make a mental representation of what it “feels like” to perform a task correctly. 

Students without as many mental representations will repeat their mistakes over and over.

  • Students should use methods for feedback other than self critique, such as an instructor or video to self critique because (chicken and egg conundrum) it’s hard to know how to dive well without a mental representation of what it feels like to dive well and it’s hard to get a mental representation without diving well.

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