Week 11-Working with the Pros

This week I was covering for my handstand coach, TBird, who is the diving coach for some pretty phenomenal divers! I am a swim coach so this dive coaching thing was new for me! I learned a lot from Gracia and Sean (the divers) and have a new found respect for diving coaches everywhere! It takes an incredible amount of concentration to analyze each and every dive. Think about it...each dive is executed in about 5 seconds and they are coming one after another!

Here Sean and I are coming into our handstands. One thing I am trying to master is getting up and balancing with one leg going a bit past the vertical line of the body then coming back into vertical and meeting up with the other leg. It's a process! We are trying to come up and sychronize our hold, but after several attempts without the perfect photo we moved on to our

task at hand, diving practice. This was the most synchronized of our photos.

Photographer: Gracia Leydon Mahney