Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there’s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water. Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated ...

Sure, there's the bellyflop. The cannonball. The bomb. But for the biggest pool splash of all, nothing beats "popping a Manu," a unique and fiendishly difficult type of diving perfected by the Māori ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe you've unknowingly tried to do a manu jump. Isabel Pavia/Moment via Getty Images Whether diving off docks, cannonballing ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Pankaj Rohilla, Georgia Institute of Technology and Daehyun Choi, Georgia Institute of ...