{"id":214173,"date":"2025-05-17T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/manu-jumping-the-physics-behind-making-humongous-splashes-in-the-pool"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:44","slug":"manu-jumping-the-physics-behind-making-humongous-splashes-in-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/manu-jumping-the-physics-behind-making-humongous-splashes-in-the-pool","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Manu jumping\u2019: The physics behind making humongous splashes in the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvlZ7z8WHKg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there\u2019s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated science, with the goal of making a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/splash\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">splash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/paris-2024\/results\/diving\" target=\"_blank\">as small as possible<\/a>. But another sport looks for just the opposite: the extreme maximum splash, one as high, wide and loud as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/24\/popping-a-manu-new-zealands-unique-water-jumping-obsession\" target=\"_blank\">manu jumping<\/a>.\u201d Although not a familiar term in the United States, manu jumping is beloved throughout New Zealand. The sport originated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzealand.com\/us\/maori-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">in the M\u0101ori community<\/a>, where popping a manu is a way of life. There, manu jumpers leap from bridges, wharves and diving platforms to make the giant splashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there\u2019s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water. Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated science, with the goal of making a splash as small as possible. But another sport looks for just the opposite: the extreme maximum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}