Flip Flops at the Dive Bar

This week, Robert & Logan bring back their Unpopular Diving Opinions Series, discussing why they think USA Diving should get rid of the Junior Region meets altogether.

This week, Robert & Logan talk about some of the new things happening at the USA Diving Junior Region meets, including mandatory technical meetings, neutral judges, meet attendance, region alignments, region hopping, and much more!

This week, Robert and Logan talk about tools and equipment that they wish they had to help them coach diving, some existing, most theoretical. Above ground foam pits, outdoor water belts, AI judging, auto platform callers, the extrapolator, and much more are discussed in this fun episode based on the idea of "Wouldn't it be cool if we had this!?"

This week, Robert and Logan chat with Kelly McCormick, two time Olympic medalist and head coach of Emerald Diving in Washington state about her experiences growing up in a diving dynasty, her preparations heading into two Olympic games, how the sport has evolved over the decades, mental training and much more!

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Erica Sorgi, World Aquatics Judge and member of the USA Diving Judges Commission about her work leading the USA Diving Neutral Judges Initiative. We talk about the goals and rational for this initiative, we get into the details on how to properly judge common mistakes found in lower level dives, and much more!

This week, Robert and Logan chat with Evan Hull, former club and NCAA diver and current traveling stand up comedian about how his experiences in diving prepared him for performing stand up comedy, which dive coaches know how to have a good time, stories from the road, and much more! Check out Evan's new special, Big Cool Bug, available on now Apple TV and Prime Video, online at www.evanhull.com,...

This week, Robert and Logan chat with Charlie Collins, owner and coach of Alamo Area Aquatics Diving in San Antonio, TX about his work with AAU diving, his experiences in the show diving world, his efforts to make diving a more valuable component of high school swimming and diving, how to make diving events more engaging, and much more!

This week, Robert and Logan wrap up their series on Long Term Athlete Development discussing the Train to Compete, Train to Win and Active For Life stages with John Appleman and special guest, Grayson Campbell, Team USA member and World Championship finalist. Grayson provides his unique perspectives as an athlete having gone through the Train to Compete and currently in the Train to Win phase of...

This week, Robert & Logan dive into the Train to Train Phase of the Long Term Athlete Development Model with John Appleman. The key windows of opportunity here are strength development and learning the building block skills. Follow along to learn about how to develop strength specific for post pubescent divers, what specific dives and skills to be training, along with how to instill good...

This week, Robert & Logan discuss with John Appleman about the second phase of the Long Term Athlete Development Model, Learn To Train, why it's arguably the most important phase and the phase most often overlooked. This phase focuses on making improvements in flexibility and sport specific movement patters, and John goes into detail on the specifics of what and how to train during this phase.