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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This is a old thread. Most of the master swimmers who use breastroke kick in the butterfly are probably from the 1950's and 1960's generation in AAU or school swimming, when this was legal. I remember in 1969 that the novice meets allow you to do this. AAU did'n't allowed for this. For someone who did both breastroke and butterfly as their top strokes as a teenager and young adult, I don't see the advantage. I even have a faster breastroke kick than a dolphin kick, but the breastroke kick makes it difficult to swim with a fly pull. If few older master swimmers who grew up under the old system, want to use breastroke kick then that's their decision, and I don't see why masters has to have the same rules as USA Swimming on this, since some master swimmers swam as children and young adults before 1960.
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This is a old thread. Most of the master swimmers who use breastroke kick in the butterfly are probably from the 1950's and 1960's generation in AAU or school swimming, when this was legal. I remember in 1969 that the novice meets allow you to do this. AAU did'n't allowed for this. For someone who did both breastroke and butterfly as their top strokes as a teenager and young adult, I don't see the advantage. I even have a faster breastroke kick than a dolphin kick, but the breastroke kick makes it difficult to swim with a fly pull. If few older master swimmers who grew up under the old system, want to use breastroke kick then that's their decision, and I don't see why masters has to have the same rules as USA Swimming on this, since some master swimmers swam as children and young adults before 1960.
