China diving team has many excellent diving coaches, among which Zhong Shaozhen, Xu Yiming and others are famous. Zhong Shaozhen is currently the national diving coach, the first athlete of the national diving team, the first diving champion of the Asian Games in China, and the coach and mentor of the famous diver Guo Jingjing. Zhong Shaozhen has been familiar with water since he was a child. During primary school, she especially loved sports and swimming, and participated in the swimming events of the county sports meeting. Later, she was selected to the swimming class of Zhongshan Amateur Sports School for training, and 196 1 Zhong Shaozhen entered the PLA Sports Institute to practice gymnastics. Later, in the diving competition of the 7th Asian Games, she won the platform and springboard championship again. Zhong Shaozhen retired at the age of 30 due to injury. When she was nearly 50 years old, Zhong Shaozhen was recalled to the national team as a coach.

Xu Yiming, the former head coach of the China diving team, was once known as? Father of modern diving technology? He won the National Medal of Honor for Sports for four times and took over as the coach, deputy head coach and head coach of China diving team. Xu Yiming left his fingerprints and footprints in the International Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale. In international sports, he became the first swimming coach in China to win this honor. When Xu Yiming was a diving coach, he led China athletes to participate in many diving competitions, including the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the World Cup, creating a brilliant record of 16 consecutive championships.

Diving includes practical diving, performance diving and athletics diving. Diving needs some important qualities, such as air feeling, coordination, flexibility, elegance, balance and sense of time. Diving can be divided into athletics diving and non-athletics diving. Among them, track and field diving is one of the official Olympic events, which is divided into springboard diving and platform diving. An athlete takes off on a flat and solid platform to complete the diving action, which is called platform diving. The height of platform diving from the water is 5 meters and 7.5 meters, and the height of platform diving is 5 meters.