answer:I can tell you the basic method we used for very young children when I worked as a camp counselor. I don’t know of any reason why this wouldn’t work for an older child as well. (Ours were K-Grade 2) We started them out diving from the side of the pool and when they could do that without any problems we moved them up to higher boards. Generally speaking, where the head goes, the body will follow. To avoid belly flopping, we had them start with their hands BEHIND their ears, and clasp their thumbs together. This over-corrected to avoid them raising their heads at the last minute. The other thing we did was place our arm gently in front of their waist and then just tipped them gently in. There was plenty of time later on for them to learn to push off. We wanted to give them the type of muscle memory optimal for avoiding belly landings; basically head down and knees straight. My guess is that your daughter is doing the opposite of either or both of those, most likely raising the head up (a typical anxiety reaction) which leads to a belly flop. Since she’s older, she may protest at diving from poolside rather than the diving board but it hurts a whole heck of a lot more when you’re belly flopping from 10 feet above rather than the side of the pool. She needs to have the muscle memory of proper technique. Once she does a whole bunch of successful poolside dives without any belly flops, then she will likely do fine from the board. Just keep reminding her not to do that last second head raise. For a very few of our kids who were fine with poolside dives but belly flopped from the board, it was usually anxiety about the height. So we had to go back a step and have them do a bunch of dives from poolside but with their eyes closed. Then after they were quite used to that, we told them to do the same (eyes closed) from the board. Oh, I forgot to add that before that final step, we had them jump numerous times from the board eyes open but feet first so they got used to the sensation and do it enough times so that it was routine rather than fear-inducing. Then we had them do feet first with eyes closed so they realized that they really didn’t need to see where they were going since gravity took care of that. And finally we had them do head first with eyes closed from the board. Obviously we kept reminding them arms overhead behind the ears. Obviously, they eventually graduated to eyes open and constant reminders to keep head down. Hopefully some of this may be helpful for you and your daughter. So, hopefully some of this will be helpful to your daughter.