Jason Statham was an international diver before he became a Hollywood star

Early Sporting Career!!! As a young teenager, Statham was an all round athlete interested in trampolining, high jump, gymnastics, football, tennis and squash. Boxing and martial arts were his main interests before he changed his mind around the age of thirteen. He recounts being impressed by “a guy who was doing a high dive” while he was away on a holiday and found his calling in the sport. Where most other divers usually start training at the age of four or five, Statham only began to dive from fifteen. He would manage his school timings and would spend the rest of the day in Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in Shirebrook, where Kim White would coach him. White later became the British Diving Programme Manager, and impressed with Statham, inducted him in the British National Diving School.