{"id":21981,"date":"2013-03-29T00:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21981"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:42:04","slug":"reality-show-features-usafa-water-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/reality-show-features-usafa-water-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Show Features USAFA Water Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC apparently has a new reality show that involves teaching celebrity contestants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2013\/03\/15\/miss-alabama-katherine-webb-jumps-off-high-dive-on-plash\/\">how to dive into a pool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contestants are trained by diving legend Greg Louganis in regulation platform and springboard diving, and will compete to have the best dive in front of a poolside audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems prior to the competition, the contestants were dared to jump off the highest platform &#8212; at 10 meters above the pool:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a height that some professionals train for years to do, but [Former Miss Alabama, Katherine Webb] was the first to take the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s pencil dive off the top left the others speechless \u2014 it isn\u2019t fancy, but it was brave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those who attended the Colorado School for Wayward Boys, this will bring back memories of USAFA&#8217;s water haze &#8212; the water survival class that was a required part of the curriculum.\u00a0 Part of the course involved jumping off the 10 meter platform in BDUs as part of a survival exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew a USAFA cadet swimming class was something &#8220;professionals train for years to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/69.199.231.171\/wiki\/index.php\/Water_Survival\">Urban legends abound<\/a> of cadets who complete every requirement to graduate and be commissioned &#8212; but were delayed or denied a diploma because they refused to jump off the 10 meter platform.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unclear if there was ever any truth to that legend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC apparently has a new reality show that involves teaching celebrity contestants how to dive into a pool: The contestants are trained by diving legend Greg Louganis in regulation platform and springboard diving, and will compete to have the best dive in front of a poolside audience. It seems prior to the competition, the contestants were dared to jump off [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3940,3941,2,65,3939],"class_list":["post-21981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-greg-louganis","tag-katherine-webb","tag-military","tag-usafa","tag-water-haze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}