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Post by fredfreddy44 on Mar 8, 2018 0:57:52 GMT
My son Alex competed in his first HS diving competition today. He did quite well and got 4-5.5 on all his dives. He is a freshman. He has always enjoyed diving off the board at our community pool. He just started the team 10 days ago because he was out the first 5 weeks with a broken arm. He is our 3rd kid and the first to compete in a HS sport.
Anyone else? Any tips and information to share as a parent?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 0:59:48 GMT
My daughter was a swimmer. One year coach tried to get her to dive instead but it wasn’t for her. But I wanted to say hi from one pool mom to another and wish him good luck!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 3:31:13 GMT
I have heard gymnastics can help.
Edited to change can't to can.
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Post by bandjmom on Mar 8, 2018 3:37:44 GMT
Bless you! My youngest just finished his sophomore college swim season. He’s been swimming competitively for 12 years.
I have great respect for the divers and their parents. I’m pretty laid-back but watching diving makes me very nervous.
Good luck to your ds. I hope he has a fun, successful season.
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Post by finaledition on Mar 8, 2018 3:38:49 GMT
My daughter did and it was a great experience. She had never done dive before, but it is a non-cut sport at her school so she did it for social reasons.  She has a good gymnastics background so it came easy for her. There were a few boys on her team and they were very good. Many of the kids who are at the top in the league belong to some type of diving club. So you may want to look and see it there is one so that he can train year round. I think the boys progressed faster than the girls because they tended to be more dare devil in nature. I also noticed the boys would try for harder dives and not look too graceful while the girls chose more conservative dives and they looked much prettier. The scores were practically the same. My daughter did it her junior and senior year and had a great time. ETA: buy a couple of those chamois towels. There were a lot of cool days they practiced and competed (we are outdoors) and the regular towels don't dry very quick. |
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Post by Judy26 on Mar 8, 2018 4:22:27 GMT
I was a HS Swimming and diving coach for many years. My biggest piece of advice is to master the basics and not worry about DD ( degree of difficulty) until you have a solid set of five dives with good technique. Judges are looking for an even approach, high knee and perpendicular on the take off and a tight landing. Without these your form is going to be off and the dive will not score well. Diving is physics in motion. Beautiful when you can apply it correctly and a big mess when you try to power through a dive rather than use correct form.
Also most officials know very little about diving unless you are competing at high levels.Dont be surprised if scores are not even. I’ve had many a heated discussion with officials who scored a dive when it should have been failed and visa versa.
Oh and put some ice packs in the freezer for bruised heels. Everyone worries about hitting your head but your heels take the real beating from hitting the board.
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Post by scrappington on Mar 8, 2018 11:06:18 GMT
I read the title as HS driving. Then read first line of competition driving.
I was shocked HS offers competition driving. Lol
Just had to share.
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Post by malibou on Mar 8, 2018 11:57:08 GMT
I read the title as HS driving. Then read first line of competition driving. I was shocked HS offers competition driving. Lol Just had to share. Now that is a scary thought. |
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Post by luckyexwife on Mar 8, 2018 14:19:31 GMT
I was a HS Swimming and diving coach for many years. My biggest piece of advice is to master the basics and not worry about DD ( degree of difficulty) until you have a solid set of five dives with good technique. Judges are looking for an even approach, high knee and perpendicular on the take off and a tight landing. Without these your form is going to be off and the dive will not score well. Diving is physics in motion. Beautiful when you can apply it correctly and a big mess when you try to power through a dive rather than use correct form. Also most officials know very little about diving unless you are competing at high levels.Dont be surprised if scores are not even. I’ve had many a heated discussion with officials who scored a dive when it should have been failed and visa versa. Oh and put some ice packs in the freezer for bruised heels. Everyone worries about hitting your head but your heels take the real beating from hitting the board. I agree on the judging. I am currently a club swimming official, and I've been asked many times to be a high school swimming official, but I won't do it because I don't feel comfortable at all judging diving! My boys do swimming, so I don't know much about diving, but good luck to your son! |
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Mar 8, 2018 15:10:59 GMT
Thanks for all the feedback! The chamois sounds like a good idea. Around here it is only 1m spring board so I am not nervous about that. The HS is a small team 8 girls and 3 boys. Next year when he is a sophomore his two parkour/trampoline/diving friends will be freshmen and I think he will enjoy it more.
There is competitive dive at Santa Clara Aquatics Center. I looked it up. For his age group it is a very specific 1.5 hrs 2 times per week. The drive at that time would be an hour each way and the cost is $200 a month just for the lessons. I think I'll wait and see how much he really enjoys it before committing both of us to that much time. In addition to HS diving, he does Boy Scouts, studio parkour, will be getting a job soon, and is taking his written driving test next week. Busy busy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 16:03:02 GMT
$200 is a drop in the bucket.
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Post by beaglemom on Mar 8, 2018 17:47:40 GMT
Santa Clara has an incredible aquatics program! I am sure it is more than worth the money. I was on De Anza's club swim team (20 years ago) and Santa Clara was a power house. I am sure that there is probably something through Stanford club sports as well. In the Bay Area there are a number of great aquatic programs and I am sure you could find a very strong driving club team. I went to Homestead and we had at least one boy and one girl diver my year that went on to compete in college. I don't remember where they did club diving.
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Post by finaledition on Mar 8, 2018 17:59:34 GMT
Thanks for all the feedback! The chamois sounds like a good idea. Around here it is only 1m spring board so I am not nervous about that. The HS is a small team 8 girls and 3 boys. Next year when he is a sophomore his two parkour/trampoline/diving friends will be freshmen and I think he will enjoy it more. There is competitive dive at Santa Clara Aquatics Center. I looked it up. For his age group it is a very specific 1.5 hrs 2 times per week. The drive at that time would be an hour each way and the cost is $200 a month just for the lessons. I think I'll wait and see how much he really enjoys it before committing both of us to that much time. In addition to HS diving, he does Boy Scouts, studio parkour, will be getting a job soon, and is taking his written driving test next week. Busy busy. I didn't realize you were northern California. The better divers in our area went to train in Santa Clara. I believe they have one of those pieces of equipment that puts bubbles in the water so when you dive the water is not so hard on a bad entry. My daughter came home with some nasty bruises-never had an impact on the board, just some bad entries in the water. My daughter wasn't able to add diving outside of the season due to her schedule, but she seemed to plateau. It's hard to progress past a certain level if you are only diving a few months a year. But if he's having fun and has friends trying it, it may not really matter to him. |
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Post by jameynz on Mar 8, 2018 18:13:11 GMT
My son's high school girlfriend (now ex) is a diver, and has gone on the world junior champs, the olympics and commonwealth games representing New Zealand.
She has a scholarship and is currently at LSU
I know they went to the gym, she did gymnastics, ate properly, hardly drank...early mornings, daily training a she also coached the younger kids in diving.
She put in lots and lots of hard work....other than that, I can't help you sorry, lol
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Post by missmiss on Mar 8, 2018 19:31:48 GMT
My son has been swimming competitively since he was 6 and is now almost 20. He never swam for his high school so we never experienced diving until he went to college. The past two years at BigTens and watching the diving at finals has been great. Steele Johnson(Purdue) is amazing! This year though he messed up on the 10m platform and didn't make finals.
My son did say there was a girl on the diving team over the summer that messed up her dive off the 10 meter platform. She ended up with a really bad concussion and a few other problems. Horrible!
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She has a good gymnastics background so it came easy for her. There were a few boys on her team and they were very good. Many of the kids who are at the top in the league belong to some type of diving club. So you may want to look and see it there is one so that he can train year round. I think the boys progressed faster than the girls because they tended to be more dare devil in nature. I also noticed the boys would try for harder dives and not look too graceful while the girls chose more conservative dives and they looked much prettier. The scores were practically the same. My daughter did it her junior and senior year and had a great time.
