I think it is a bad rule as freestyle underwater is undefined. As others say if you do dolphin kick you are legally swimming fly. As long as you are doing front crawl (or other non-conventional stroke) when you break out it should be legal freestyle in an IM.
I think it is a bad rule as freestyle underwater is undefined. As others say if you do dolphin kick you are legally swimming fly. As long as you are doing front crawl (or other non-conventional stroke) when you break out it should be legal freestyle in an IM.
