I recently posted a question about racing and received a lot of great answers so here is another question. I am about to participate in my first race (in a pool) and I am worried about being disqualified now. What are some of the common mistakes I need to be aware of? Turns maybe?
You can't touch your goggles. Say for instance you dive in in the 500 and your goggles fall off and are hanging on your neck- tough luck you cant fix them.
I believe in Masters messing with goggles is OK, as long as you don't otherwise break a stroke rule. So in freestyle you would be OK as long as you don't stand on the bottom or hang on a lane line while you are fixing them. But in fly or *** it would be very difficult to maintain stroke and fix goggles at the same time.
A team mate of mine fixed his goggles on both the start and 1st turn of his 1500 free at Omaha, without a DQ; I saw a swimmer get DQ'd out of the 200 fly at Greensboro for breaking stroke to fix his.
You can't touch your goggles. Say for instance you dive in in the 500 and your goggles fall off and are hanging on your neck- tough luck you cant fix them.
I believe in Masters messing with goggles is OK, as long as you don't otherwise break a stroke rule. So in freestyle you would be OK as long as you don't stand on the bottom or hang on a lane line while you are fixing them. But in fly or *** it would be very difficult to maintain stroke and fix goggles at the same time.
A team mate of mine fixed his goggles on both the start and 1st turn of his 1500 free at Omaha, without a DQ; I saw a swimmer get DQ'd out of the 200 fly at Greensboro for breaking stroke to fix his.
