Fina Masters Rules

I've looked on the Fina site but I'm not sure I found the correct answer so I'll ask the resident experts. Do Fina Masters rules allow for "butterfrog?" What about breaststroke kick for backstroke?
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  • I've looked on the Fina site but I'm not sure I found the correct answer so I'll ask the resident experts. Do Fina Masters rules allow for "butterfrog?" What about breaststroke kick for backstroke? Butterfrog is legal for Masters.It is how I swim the 200 Fly and Ginger Pierson has used it to swim WRs.At a SCM meet last year I was in lane 6 and Ginger in lane 7 for the 200 Fly and my wife heard one of the age groupers who was timing say"what event is this." In the USMS rules for fly if you use a BR kick you can only do 1 BR kick before the first pull and only one BR kick in each stroke cycle.You can however use as many dolphin kicks per stroke cycle as you wish.Swimming butterfrog I do one BR kick and one dolphin kick per cycle. In back stroke any stroke is legal as long as you are on your back. Since my back stroke is my slowest stroke and I can swim BR faster than I can swim SDK(sad isn't it) I swim BR on my back underwater off the turns.In a 100 IM or a 50 BK I try to get the full 15M underwater to minimize the time spent actually swimming BK.
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  • I've looked on the Fina site but I'm not sure I found the correct answer so I'll ask the resident experts. Do Fina Masters rules allow for "butterfrog?" What about breaststroke kick for backstroke? Butterfrog is legal for Masters.It is how I swim the 200 Fly and Ginger Pierson has used it to swim WRs.At a SCM meet last year I was in lane 6 and Ginger in lane 7 for the 200 Fly and my wife heard one of the age groupers who was timing say"what event is this." In the USMS rules for fly if you use a BR kick you can only do 1 BR kick before the first pull and only one BR kick in each stroke cycle.You can however use as many dolphin kicks per stroke cycle as you wish.Swimming butterfrog I do one BR kick and one dolphin kick per cycle. In back stroke any stroke is legal as long as you are on your back. Since my back stroke is my slowest stroke and I can swim BR faster than I can swim SDK(sad isn't it) I swim BR on my back underwater off the turns.In a 100 IM or a 50 BK I try to get the full 15M underwater to minimize the time spent actually swimming BK.
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