How does hitting water at a big height feel like landing on concrete?

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I failed all my science courses, I don’t understand much about science but why doesn’t the water just… move like when you jump in normally?

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When you hit water, it hits you back. If you dip your hand in a pool you don’t feel resistance, but if you slap your hand in you feel pressure on your hand. If you do a belly flop, it hurts- the faster you hit it the harder it hits back.

When you fall from a high space, you start to go faster the further you fall until you are falling at your maximum speed. Once you’re at that speed, you would hit the water really hard and it’s going to hit you back really hard, to the point where it feels like you’re just hitting a solid.

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