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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a few clubs year round:

Dominion Dive Club
Alexandria Dive Club which is also affiliated with Metro Diving Club which operates out of Montgomery county
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THANK YOU!!!

Any idea how to get a private coach? Just get to know people?[/quote]

Private coaches are unlikely because of how board time is allocated at pools and how insurance requirements work. You might find someone who will work 1:1 with your kid at a summer swim club that has a board, but the pool will likely have restrictions on what can happen off the board outside of an insured dive practice (ours does- front dives/flips only, nothing backwards, no inwards, no reverses).

Intro lessons are indeed hard to access, but it helps to know someone on the team who can bring your kid for a trial lesson or a “bring a friend” day that they sometimes have. Keep trying to get a spot and in the meantime, put your kid in gymnastics and find a summer club with a dive team. Make sure they are comfortable jumping off the board and diving off the side. We see so many kids try a practice but are afraid to do anything off the board and scared to dive.

Go to open swims with deep ends that allow diving and practice dives off of the wall over and over until they’re easy and fun. Few intro practices will have the coaching bandwidth to teach a child a dive from zero.

My kid’s path was summer dive + competitive gymnastics for a few years, got known in the summer dive world= got invited by a coach to try year-round club practice. We didn’t have to deal with signups or a wait list, and I think this is common. The coach had heard about her from an older teammate who helped coach summer dive. DD is still a gymnast and it helps her diving a lot but she has gym friends who have tried dive and couldn’t figure it out, so it’s not a guarantee that it will translate.[/quote]

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