A unique and fiendishly difficult type of diving has been perfected by the Māori of New Zealand. It can shoot out 32-foot water jets.

The microsecond the manu jumper hits the water is critical. Two splashes actually occur: The first, the crown splash, forms as the body breaks the surface. The next, the Worthington splash, is ...

Move over belly flops and cannonballs. Manu jumps, pioneered by New Zealand’s Māori and Pasifika communities, reign supreme.

The general idea will be familiar to anyone who messed around at swimming pools as a child: who can make the highest splash when they jump into the water. According to Lele, the best manu jumpers ...

Manu jumping is all about triggering and maximizing ... This expands the air cavity, the space of air created in the water by the jump; then the cavity collapses, detaching itself from the body.

Manu jumping is all about triggering and maximizing ... This expands the air cavity, the space of air created in the water by the jump; then the cavity collapses, detaching itself from the body.

Finally, researcher and co-author Daehyun Choi built a "Manubot," a hand-sized robot that could mimic a diver's body movements during a manu jump to test what exact angle was best to create the ...

Manu jumping is all about triggering and maximizing ... This expands the air cavity, the space of air created in the water by the jump; then the cavity collapses, detaching itself from the body.