Welcome to the Parent Corner! We have all the resources you will need to help you feel more comfortable when it comes to the world of diving.
We know the sport of diving can be hard to understand from the outside looking in, so we want to help you feel more involved with our club and the sport.
Dive numbers and their letters are best explained as the "lingo of diving", they can be seen during a diving practice, on a diver's list for a meet, and are most commonly seen at a dive meet. They help communicate to everyone what dive the athlete will be doing so instead of someone saying, "George is doing a front one and a half pike on the three-meter springboard." Which is a mouth full, you would instead hear, "George is doing a 103B on three-meter springboard." Now that sounds more like it!
Dive numbers and their letters can seem infinite but they are not as intimidating as you would think.
In the link below you will get a breakdown of common dives and learn how the numbers and letters function.
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Our dryland gym at COM Aquatics is one of the best facilities in Texas. We are grateful to have this space to train our diving team and give them all the tools they could need that you aren't going to find at a lot of other facilities, especially right next to the pool! In our gym, we not only have two in-ground trampolines, three dry-boards (diving boards in the gym), and two foam floors, but we also have belts for spotting over all of the equipment to help our athletes with learning and building upon skills and dives that will transfer to the water.
Something that is surprising to all new families is that dryland training is a staple for any athlete that is in the sport of diving. It makes up 80% of our developmental programs as it is a necessary tool to teach our athletes before letting them try jumps and dives in the water. For instance, before an athlete can do a new dive from any height in the water, they must go through all the fundamentals and progressions in the gym. This doesn't happen in a day, it takes time to get all the fundamentals for one dive.
I am a staunch believer that failure is an absolutely essential ingredient for success. We are here to partner with parents to help produce good people who understand the value of hard work the importance of making good choices. Choices have consequences. We want the divers to choose, on their own, to try new things. This requires patience on everyone's part. More importantly it requires unconditional support from the parents, whether or not they try new things.
My years of doing this has shown me that there are two universal truths:
1. All children, regardless of what they say, want their parents to be proud of them.
2. All parents want their children to be successful.
I would like to address this second one. Kids do all kinds of crazy stuff. They also act out at times. They get scared. The best thing you can do to help your child is love and support your kid no matter what they do, or more importantly don't do, at practice. They are going to struggle. They are going to fail. It is a necessary part of the process. Don't bribe your child to get them to try things. They will be doing it for the wrong reason. If you truly feel there is an issue and you would like to discuss it with a coach, our door is always open!
Click the image below to see a video on preventing swimmer (diver) hair!!
Our Chevron Mini Prix dryland skills testing program is our primary measure by which we move the divers through the program. Testing is done every 8 weeks. Lesson plans are built around the tests. Every skill your child will be tested on has an instructional video they can watch and practice at home! We encourage the kids to watch the videos and practice the skills as much as they can.
Man Cards are a fun and funny way that we track the divers progress in the water. Emphasis on funny (Ron Burgundy is on the first card). There are 10 cards with 10 goals on each card. Have the kids bring their cards to practice so that as they progress they can have their skills "punched"!
