Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.
Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators. Competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinaesthetic judgment and air awareness.
China came to prominence several decades ago when the sport was revolutionized by national coach Liang Boxi and after intense study of the dominant Louganis. China has lost few world titles since. The success of Greg Louganis has led to American strength in diving internationally. Other noted countries in the sport include Italy, Australia and Canada.
Most diving competitions consist of three disciplines: 1m and 3m springboards, and the platform. Competitive athletes are divided by gender, and often by age group. In platform events, competitors are allowed to perform their dives on either the five, seven and a half (generally just called seven) or ten meter towers. In major diving meets, including the Olympic Games and the World Championships, platform diving is from the 10 meter height.
Whisper with the waves
Never to be found
Separated from the stars
Crimson dyed sky
With its endless love
Calling me...
Diving through the ocean`s cold
Darkness covering my soul
In this silence of my own
Water tomb, my ever home
Poetic spell
Thee unveiled
And drowned of demons
Bare for sacrifice
Bare for sacrifice...
Diving through the ocean`s cold
Darkness covering my soul
In this silence of my own
Water tomb, my ever home
You said I've had enough.
I think I've been drunk enough times to decide that.
'Cause I can still stand up, for me that is enough to
take myself outside.
Maybe lightning will strike me tonight.
From the back seat you sit and watch.
Time wasted just adds to the cost.
You think you'll never find your way back now.
Why would you give up?
I know your strong enough, it's not too late to start a
fire.
I just can't stop driving 'till the wheels fall off.
That might not be that long now.
Now that I'm gone I finally feel I belong, even though
I never fit in anywhere.
In town I heard you all talk.
You laugh a lot and call me lost.
Well I'm never coming back.
Why would I give up this?
The one thing I've loved that's never turned it's back.
I've walked this road a hundred times and stood here a
hundred and one.
Toss and turn all through the night, visions of a
better life.
I can't get them out of my head.
I've walked this road a hundred times and stood here a
hundred and one.
It's so crazy it might just work.
We're so close it fucking hurts.
I can't get it out of my head.
The glass, it flows
like a river, beneath my feet
And it glows like a beacon, calling me
To the brink I will go; tap the surface and wait
For your sign: it's a ripple, calling me
And I, I will dive, right through
Dive right down to you
Let me through this pool
Let me through to you
Can I be content?
Here it all makes sense
You've been sent from above
Take me down, my love
I stare at the world beneath my feet
I must go, for I promised we would meet
In this world that I know, it can give me much more
Tell me now, what does heaven have in store?
Diving through the seemingly solid, through the brick
and the stone
I will follow you
These torrents of knowledge could bring any man to the
brink of insanity
Not now...
As I stare through the glass, it grows solid beneath me
Sealing away this heaven and bliss until I sleep once
more
And I, I can't dive right through
Dive right down to you
Let me through this pool
Let me through to you
I am not content
Nothing here makes sense
You're not sent from above
Tell me a secret, I'll tell you mine...
Tell me about desires - you hide inside
There is so much that we - should have done
I was insecure but.... now I'm strong...
Diving...whatever it may take, I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Diving...knowing it was you I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Diving into you...
Oh diving...into the blue...
We are rising
Celebrate the night
It was you who showed me
How to fly...
Diving...whatever it may take, I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Diving...knowing it was you I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Diving...whatever it may take, I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Diving...knowing it was you I keep on trying
Diving into you...
Living with the feeling that my heart goes on bleeding,
Realizing nothing has changed.
This struggle is exhausting, therefore I am diving,
And I still not feel better yet.
This mental prison is killing me
And I so would like you to see
Me inside myself,
Find out how I am suffering,
People living their lives,
Innocent can't be taken in account
When so many casualties are ignored.
Depression is oppressive to me,
I feel so low I don't wanna see
What tomorrow will be made of.
"harder and harder" is what's sprawling in my head,
Please notice me before I do
The thing I said.
I am doing
Away with myself,
Smiling to death,
After meal I went to lie
Very good for health is people say
To like sea and beach in holiday
I enjoyed it well and saw you
At once I thought of sport
Told you how we could dive through
A flood of passion and lust
I like to dive into
The greatest thing life brings
You'll experience that it's true
If you accompany me
And when the sun is setting
My big feeling's growing up
Is somewhere an ocean for diving
An ocean build of passion and love
Experience a good feeling
Wanna conquer new things
It's important to knowing
That diving is a wet thing
I like to dive into
The greatest thing life brings
You'll experience that it's true
If you accompany me
I like to dive into
The greatest thing life brings
You'll experience that it's true
If you accompany me