Cliff diving is a very spectacular and thrilling sport. The athletes perform multiple flips and twists in the air but the most critical part of each dive is the end. The barani and the water entry have to be perfect to bring a good dive to a perfect end. To get the high score of ten the divers need a rip entry with almost no splash. Even though this part of the dive looks simple, the athletes need years of practice to execute their entries perfectly. Before they can raise the degree of difficulty of their dives, their entries must be a 100% perfect.
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Despite the literal meaning of Grimstad — ‘sour town’ — its roughly 20,000 permanent residents are widely known for their genuine happiness. Probably because of the region’s good weather and the picturesque landscape surrounding the archipelago that stretches 500km from Oslo to the southern tip of Norway.
During a family trip to Havasu Dunes last month, Reni Chamberlain was undoubtedly the only octogenarian gliding around the lake on water skis.
The Vista grandmother had reached her 80th birthday on May 24, and having spent all but a few years of her life on skis, it was the natural way to celebrate.
Growing up in Salzburg, Austria, she recalled, “My mother put skis on the bottom of my feet because we had a lot of snow and that was the only way she could get me outside.”   … More