Jason Baumann's Diving 4-Pack

Edina High School (MN) coach Jason Baumann, has organized a comprehensive look into the seasonal training plan that he uses at the high school level. You'll get insight into the goals Coach Baumann sets over the course of a season, his coaching philosophy, how he improves his athletes' fundamental diving skills and a week-by-week training schedule designed to help divers peak when it matters most.

Season Planning

Before you can establish a schedule, you must set your goals for your team and individual athletes. Coach Baumann discusses the types of goals he sets and considers during the preseason, then dives further into the specific workouts needed to make significant progression during the season. It's important to identify the skill level of your athletes when they come in, as well as where as where you want them to be once the season concludes.

Using a PowerPoint presentation, Coach Baumann walks you through a week-by-week schedule that he typically follows during the high school season. You'll get insights on what Coach Baumann focuses on during each week for skill development, as well as how to keep athletes fresh for the postseason. Every week, a "voluntary of the week" is incorporated into practices to ensure that all essential dives are covered.

Daily Workouts

Coach Baumann explains daily workouts that are both efficient and creative. Workouts include dryland training, poolside training and work from the 1M board. Typically, Coach Baumann groups his divers by their ability levels at practice, which allows them to improve quicker than they would in one large group. Every practice includes 100s (front jumps), 200s (back jumps), going through the 1M board diving list and specific work on water entries.

Coach Baumann's practice planning and organization strategies are great for coaches of youth programs, high school teams and even collegiate instructors. You'll discover a great schedule for ensuring your athletes achieve plenty of growth and development over the course of a season.

40 minutes. 2016.

Jason Baumann, diving coach at Edina High School and owner of North Star Diving Club, presents a comprehensive look into the dryland training that will help your divers become stronger, more flexible and technically proficient. The dryland drills you'll see in this video have helped Coach Baumann develop conference finalists and All-Americans at the collegiate level.

Stretching and Conditioning

The end goal for all of Coach Baumann's dryland exercises is to maximize effort and time to help divers get into the correct body position to do skills - and then apply those skills on the board and into the water. He begins by walking through a stretching routine designed to ready the parts of the body that undergo physical stress during various types of dives. Muscles from the neck to the legs are warmed up for practice or competition.

Once athletes are stretched out, Coach Baumann progresses to basic and advanced conditioning routines. The basic exercises include moves that divers of any level can execute to strengthen their core, including tucks, planks, supermans and burpees. Moves like headstands and aqua-mans are reserved for the advanced workout and should only be used by experienced divers. Exercises in both routines will help your athletes improve their form and ability to change positions quickly in the air.

Work Outs and Modeling

Coach Baumann includes a work out that will train sport specific skills for diving while simultaneously conditioning divers. Many of the positions in the workout begin from the hollow position, then progress out to diving positions such as the tuck to pike, seated pike, tuck to pike out and bullet jumps.

Before divers get onto the board, the use of "modeling drills" can help them gain the feel they need to execute certain dives. This is especially true for high school age athletes and younger, as twisting dives often difficult for youth divers. You'll see modeling drills for front jumps, somersaults, back dives and reverse dives. These drills are designed with all coaches and teams in mind, and are especially valuable to those with limited practice space.

Whether you're coaching beginning or advanced divers, Coach Baumann's dryland drills will teach you and your athletes the body positions and techniques necessary to achieve higher scores during competition.

48 minutes. 2016.

Jam-packed with dryland, poolside and 1M board drills, this video from Edina High School diving coach, Jason Baumann, gives you everything you need to improve the diving abilities of your athletes. Each drill is demonstrated by young divers, then explained in detail by Coach Baumann, making it easy to take the techniques shown and apply them at your next practice.

Modeling Drills

Body position can be perfected much easier on poolside as opposed to in the air/water. Coach Baumann covers modeling drills for twisting dives that work on athletes' ability to bend, jump and turn. Your divers will get instruction on forward jumps, somersaults, back dives and reverses. Coach Baumann also includes a few drills that use a wall to get divers into correct entry position.

Poolside Drills

Before athletes get to the 1M board, practicing on the pool deck can be an effective training method - especially if you have limited access to diving facilities. You'll see Coach Baumann instruct divers on how to execute front jumps, front dives, front somersaults, back dives, back jumps and reverse jumps.

In addition to instructing athletes, Coach Baumann show you how to spot them and guide them to the correct positions on each jump.

1M Board

Coach Baumann completes the video with demonstrations of 20 different dives from the 1M board. You'll learn more about each dive and also hear the feedback that Coach Baumann has for his athletes after they've completed their dives.

This video has all the necessary drills and exercises for creating championship-caliber divers. Coach Baumann's teaching is easy to understand and effective at all levels, making this a great resource for any coach.

116 minutes. 2016.

FINA certified judge, Jason Baumann, delivers a comprehensive presentation on officiating diving, including the scoring scale and areas of consideration when awarding points. At the end of the video, Baumann judges live dives to give you a sense of how and why he'd score dives with specific criteria.

Officiating Overview

Coach Baumann begins with a presentation on the basics of officiating. He teaches you the scoring scale and provides his definition of properly judging competitions: to appropriately and objectively as possible reward divers for the elements and totality of the dive they perform. Coach Baumann believes that any score you give is the correct score, as long as you have a rationale for explaining your score.

From the coaching perspective, Coach Baumann uses his judging knowledge to show you how to improve the dives of your athletes. Knowing the areas for consideration in awarding points (starting position, approach, takeoff, flight and entry) can help you critique your divers' skills in each critical area. You'll learn why working on entries and takeoffs extensively can give your divers the best opportunity to score well.

Numbers Explanation and Example Dives

It's important to consider the talent level of each of your athletes when deciding which dives to execute during a competition. Coach Baumann discusses how degree of difficulty and execution can influence the final score, and how playing it safe or being more risky on a dive can put your athletes in the position to succeed.

Once you've learned what goes into scoring a dive, Coach Baumann takes you to the pool to run through sample dives. After each dive is completed, they're replayed in slow motion and scored by Coach Baumann. Once he's awarded a score, he explains his rationale from a judge's perspective and also instructs the athlete on what they could do better to improve the score of their dive.

By using the officiating techniques presented by Coach Baumann in this video, you'll be able to feel confident as a judge at diving competitions. Plus, if you're a coach, your team will benefit because you'll know what the judges are looking for in certain dives. Get everything you need to know about officiating diving today!

53 minutes. 2016.