Beginner Group

This group is designed to be a temporary introductory group to transition kids who are brand new from tryouts to be able to join one of our developmental groups.

Practice is Monday and Wednesday from 12-1pm and you will need a swimsuit, a towel, a water bottle and shorts and a shirt to go over your swimsuit for dryland.

Skills Necessary to Enter:

• Pass Swim/Jump test

Goals of The Group

• Learn all basic body positions in diving
  • Tuck, pike, straight (For both front and back dives), Hand grab for head first dives, Starting positions for all dive directions.
• Learn how to rock/bounce the board with rhythm.
• Basic jumps on 1m and 3m springboards and platforms
  • Front and back jump straight, tuck and pike
• Front lineup on side of pool and 1m (Falling forward entry)
• Learn daily dryland warmup
• Basic Modeling
  •        Back tuck comeouts

  • Front tuck comeouts

  • Lineup hand drills

  • Position holds (Hollow, plank, arch, tuck, pike)

• Start to learn diving vocabulary