Diving
o wow, i m honoured to be agreed by the great Thomas Laybourn! i do get bruises too on my arms too sometimes, when u do diving so often, u will get battle-scars on your arm, even if it is done properly. Thomas is one of the most hard-fought professionals on the circuit. study Thomas's dives, and u can pick it up. i have been playing for 20 yrs myself. i study a lot of moves in the game. diving is one move which i don't study from the others because 1. coaches don't encourage it and they don't teach it. 2. it's hard to see dives being done often. i learned it by myself much like Thomas. I was inspired by Boris Becker's Pike Dive. and then it happened one day to me in a tournament. and then from that point on, i just do it whenever i m desperately out of position. besides Thomas, you can also watch Lin Dan. Lin Dan dives quite often. You can easily see him dive 2-3 times in a match. Notice Lin's hands when he dives, they are always in a "pushed up" position for landing to prevent injuries. and he is very quick to recover too. Jonas Rasmussen also dives occasionally.