Future Champions 2

This group is for divers who have started to perfect the skills learned in Future Champions 1 and show a willingness/desire to push through the fears and progress those skills into more complex skills and basic dives. Divers will be placed in this group after they've shown a strong grasp on the basic concepts of diving, a more attuned sense of body awareness and control and an ability to show/maintain consistency in form and body position while adding complexity to basic drills and modeling.

Skills Necessary to Enter:

• Demonstrated attention to detail on form and correct body shape.
• Willingness and ability to try new/scary things
• Strong understanding and ability to demonstrate basic body positions, modeling, dryland drills and water jumps and lineups.

Goals of this Group:

• Develop a level of comfort with board rhythm on ankle rocks and bounces
• Perfection of body shape on basic jumps:
  • Correct movement of board
  • Correct starting position
  • Body control throughout - proper positions (Straight/tuck/pike)
  • Control/shape on entry
• General understanding of board/arm timing for each direction and how they are different and the ability to model each with the guidance of a coach. (Front/Inward/Back/Reverse)
• Ability to properly model a back press and a 1-step hurdle model on floor
• Ability to perform basic takeoffs and dives for each direction in dryland (Trampoline, dryboard, dry tower)
• Front lineup tuck and pike on 3m
• Back lineup straight on 3m
• Back lineup tuck on 1m
• Front dive straight and tuck on side of pool and 1m springboard with arms up
• Arm swing jumps in each direction with proper board and arm timing specific to that direction
• Front jump straight, tuck and pike on 5m
• Rocking, arm swing front dive tuck (101C) on 1m with correct arm swing timing
• Rocking, arm swing back dive straight (201A) on 1m with correct arm swing timing