How would I pass the diving test?
My senior year of college, I was taking a springboard diving class as a Physical Education major. The instructor was the head diving coach, and it was an intense class. I would say I was an average diver who could do most basic dives OK.
One day, we were working on a reverse dive, and I couldn’t make myself do it. I was frozen with fear at the thought of possibly hitting my head on the diving board. Then the instructor told us we would be tested on that dive and others during the next class.
The dread of doing that dive was on my mind the rest of the day. I could not get over how scared I was.
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