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This week, Robert & Logan talk about why Logan has decided to go all in on AAU Diving with his club program.

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Drew Johansen, Head Dive Coach at Indiana University and four time Head Coach for the US Olympic Diving Team, about belt spotting, the adjust phase of the dive, the Essential Skills Program, and much, much more!

This week, Robert & Logan chat again with Yahya Radman about his lessons learned from the international diving community, coaches education, how to keep improving, and much, much more! Check out www.yahyaradman.com to request Yahya to speak and work with your organization.

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Ray Mannion, founder and owner of Dive Live, a comprehensive meet management application for competitive diving, about one Dive Live's newest features for college recruiting. College coaches, if you haven't tried it out yet, Dive Live has created a recruiting tool to connect athletes and coaches, with over 300 athletes currently participating.

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Peyton Thomas, Royal Caribbean Aquatics Show show runner and former college teammate of Robert, about his time diving with Western Kentucky, how he got into professional show diving, his career working with the Royal Caribbean Aquatic Shows, and much, much more!

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Josh Larcom, new head coach at Pitt about the the new and unique coaching structure they are starting at Pitt, his work with the PDCA, and much more!

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Dr. Chelsea Ale, President of the US Professional Diving Coaches Association about the upcoming PDCA Symposium Oct 10-11 in Las Vegas, NV. Chelsea shares an exciting line up of guest speakers and topics that will make this years in person Symposium a can't miss event!

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Oleg Andriyuk, head coach at Stanford Diving Club, about his lessons learned from Junior and Senior Nationals, how he manages one of the biggest and best programs in the country, the future of diving, and much, much more!

Robert and Logan return from their impromptu summer hiatus with a recap of the USA Diving Junior Nationals. Robert was their for the first half of the meet and shares some of the good, the bad, and everything in between from his experience at the meet, as well as some of the talk heard around the pool deck.

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Ted Everett, head dive coach at Princeton University, about the realities of what it takes to get into an Ivy League school, best practices when applying, what it's like diving in the Ivy League, and much, much more!

This week, Robbert & Logan chat with Derek Starks about how work with the Coaches Advisory Committee, how to get a good 107c on 1 meter, his experiences attending international competitions, and much more.

This week, Robert & Logan revisit how they use AI to help with their coaching and managing their programs.

This week, Robert & Logan talk about the the things they wish they knew and the advice they wish they had when they first started diving. Coaching philosophies, proactive learning, leaning in to the business side things, and much more!

This week, Robert & Logan celebrate one year and 50 episodes by chatting with the very first guest to the podcast, Quinton Mendoza about summer dive camps, their best and worst flops, competition selection strategies, and much more!

This week, Robert & Logan chat with Max Flory, current member of the USA Diving National Team and owner/founder of Diving Mentoring, about lessons learned from his recent international competitions, an in depth discussion on his Mentorship Program, how to bridge the gap from 05's to 07's, and much more! Visit www.maxflory.com for more info and to book a session.

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.c...

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 h...

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 train...

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 ph...