In the video below you can see a very good running dive by Ryan Murphy and a “Not so Good” running dive by Santo Condorelli. The other day at practice I asked them to film them, so I could post two very good running dives since both swimmers do a great job.  The result was not what I expected but I guess it makes a good video.

Different ways of diving but both very good technique which helps them with their starts.  I like a lot to do running dives so we can practice the start and most important the entry, the underwater and the breakout.  As you can see Ryan is going in the water with a lot of speed and once he enters the water he has to really learn to control that speed.  Santo on the other hand is just funny 😉

We have also been using parachutes for the last 5-6 years to work with our running dives, and soon we will be using a NEW pulley system that Coach Michael Walker has designed for us. I will post some videos with some of the sets we do sometime soon with both tools.

Now watch this video and get some laughs because one of the dives is “Not So Good”.

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Please make sure that if you do any running dives on the pool deck that it is safe.  Don’t try this with inexperienced swimmers.  Thanks!