Back a few months, there were energetic discussions about doing away with the use of breastroke kick during butterfly swimming. At that time, I recall that FINA postponed the decision for Masters until after the Worlds. Has anyone heard anything?
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That's really too bad. It's time for USMS to legitimize itself by conforming with accepted rules of swimming for all strokes. In USA Swimming we do not make allowances for kids who are too young to properly swim butterfly...the rules are applied equally and if a kid is illegal he/she gets disqualified. For masters swimmers, eventually this rule will be changed and those who cannot swim butterfly correctly, should not enter those events, or risk getting DQ'd.
That's really too bad. It's time for USMS to legitimize itself by conforming with accepted rules of swimming for all strokes. In USA Swimming we do not make allowances for kids who are too young to properly swim butterfly...the rules are applied equally and if a kid is illegal he/she gets disqualified. For masters swimmers, eventually this rule will be changed and those who cannot swim butterfly correctly, should not enter those events, or risk getting DQ'd.
