Wow! 2nd Place at LA84

Incredible! I won 2nd place in diving at the LA84 Foundation Diving Festival. The best divers from the LA area were there to compete.

I was pretty nervous, so I only watched the other diver from my team. I turned my back when the rest of the divers dove because I didn't want to get intimidated.

I got pretty good scores on all my dives, but the last dive, was my highest difficulty dive and I nailed it... got the best scores I ever got on a dive.

Below is my winning dive.



Thanks to everyone that helped me this summer. My coach Sarah, my grandpa Dick, my tumbling coach Gabe, my dad for his coaching and my mom for taking me to all those practices and meets.

I'm going to be diving some more this fall at Santa Clarita. I'll keep you posted.

Awhile later

Hey, I got second in regionals. Sorry that its been awhile since I last put some videos on. I learned some new dives. Let's see what you think.



This isn't a new dive but I got better at it. It is an inward.



I got better at this front somersault full twist.



This is a front double somersault.



This is a forward straight dive.



this is a reverse somersault.



This is a new dive I learned. A back one and a half.



This is not a dive, but I think you will like it.

Diving for one week - Part 1

Dear Grandpa,

I've now been diving for a week. I still really like it. Here are some videos of my dives. I'm including several versions of each dive. I'm showing you some of the messed up dives as well as the good ones. Dad says that showing you my mistakes will help you to coach me.

I'm sorry these videos aren't as clear as the last ones. Mom took them on the wrong setting. The next ones will be better.

Please keep coaching me. I wish you were here. Want to come and visit?

Love, Jed



This is a half twist




This is another half twist



This is a full twist



This is a head bang dive. Do you like it?



This is my Gymnastics Coach, Gabe - I want
to do THIS dive!

This is the end of Part 1... please look at the videos in Part 2.

Diving for one week - Part 2

This is Part 2 of "Diving for One week."



This is an "OK" inward



This is an inward



This is a "Good" inward



This is a "Bad" inward



This is a One and a half



This is a "fine" one and a half



This is a tuck dive



This is a Gainer

June 28, 2007 - 2nd day of diving practice

Dear Grandpa,

Today was my second day of diving practice. My coach's name is Sarah. She was trained as a swimmer, not a diver. But, she did go to Olympic trials. She knows a lot of coaches in LA. She told me that once she cleans me up, she will introduce me to other coaches. I think she thinks I am kind of good.

I would very much like to have you help me. Because mom can take videos of my dives and she can upload them to this website... you can see my dives within hours after I have done them. I will love it if you would look at them and tell me what you would tell me if I was right there with you.

I really enjoy diving. I wish you could be here to coach me, but this is pretty cool that we can do it this way.

Here are the videos from today (Thursday). You need to scroll down the page to see each dive. Click on the little gray button on the bottom of each picture to see the video.

Love, Jed




This is a Front Tuck



This is a Tuck Dive



This is the Layout




This is the one and a half



This is the Ganor - done AFTER talking to Grandpa. Thanks, Grandpa.