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Hero Extreme Cliff Diving
An excellent and breathtaking addition to the Heroes Extreme Sport World Championships,
cliff diving will be sure to impress. The event will take place in Hawaii in honour
of its birthplace.
A Brief History of Cliff Diving:
This is another sport that originates in Hawaii. It is recorded from the year 1770 on the
island of Lanai which lies between the islands Molokai and Maui. It is recorded in tradition
that the local warriors would jump off of high rocky cliffs into rough seas to prove
their courage as well as attract the ladies. In the 1800’s, the great king Kamehameha
I from dynasty Kamehameha who himself was a cliff diver, would judge the style of
the warrior’s jumps. Still to this day in Hawaii, cliff diving is a popular sport, jumping
from heights around 25 meters with the water only being about 3.5 meters deep! In the
Czech Republic was established HIGHJUMP Civic Association in 1999 (which seeks
to promote and develop adrenaline sport cliff diving in the country), which organized
the first ever Championship of the Czech Republic in Cliff diving in 2000. In 2009 Red
Bull started the world’s biggest cliff diving competitions and gave the sport world wide
attention.
Read more at: http://www.highjump.cz/index.php?jazyk=en&kategorie=cliffdiving&skupina=historie
Basic Rules of Cliff Diving: (From the Red Bull Cliff Diving Website)
Five judges will score each dive based on a scale of 0 to 10 in half-point increments.
Total points shall be tabulated at the scoring table according to the following. The
highest and the lowest judges’ scores will be discarded. The remaining three scores will
be added and multiplied by the degree of difficulty for that dive. This will produce the
total score for each dive. The total score of all dives performed will be added together
to produce the overall total for the competition for each diver.
Divers perform four dives from a height ranging from 26-28m, for the men, and 20-
21m, for the women. There are a total of nine groups: front, back, reverse, inward,
front twists, back twists, reverse twists, inward twists and all armstand dives. The two
required dives, for the men, must be performed from different take-off positions. There
are five take-off positions (front, back, reverse, inward and armstand). The Degree of
Difficulty for each required dive is 3.8, for the men, and 2.6, for the women. To clarify:
front double half twist and front double 1½ twist are different groups, but the same
take-off position. If a dive has less Degree of Difficulty, it will still be 3.8 (or 2.6).