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Diving



Want to teach dives? First, make sure the pool is deep enough. Start with a seated dive then move into a kneeling dive before trying to do a standing dive.


Diving is one of the few things in life we do head first so can be frightening, reducing the distance to water helps prepare children for dives (reduces the chances of bellyflops) and encourages them to dive out and not down.