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Genesis bow tuning. Finger savers. Dolphining. I need help.

I'm helping coach the archery team at my kids school. Several kids on the archery team have arrows that dolphin pretty badly and I'm hoping to learn enough to correct that. I'm the most "nuts and bolts" guy in the group of parents so it has fallen to me to try and learn what I can about tuning genesis bows and Easton arrows as used for NASP competition.

I measured the nock points at 3/8-1/2" above center for everybody.

So, as I understand it, best case scenario with max draw length, max draw weight, and crisp release the arrows are too stiff. At worst with a lower draw weight, shorter draw length, and mushy release things only get worse.

I assume this is going to be a case of minimizing rather than eliminating all arrow tuning problems.

Several kids have finger savers on their strings. The bows with finger savers tend dolphin the most. I'm not certain that the finger savers are causing the dolphining but noticed the correlation and thought I should mention it.

What can I do to try and eliminate the dolphining? I tried moving the nock point down to about 1/4" above center on one of the finger saver bows and it seemed to make things worse. How far above center is too far?

Thanks

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