I'm been working on it again. The rules state that you can do a single pull or double pull in order to execute the turn. When you have went from being on your back or side to front is one front crawl pull use to be able to execute the turn. Sometimes, I don't get close enough to the wall and head up with two which is illegal. Also, from back to ***, when you touch with one hand at the wall after that you can pull underwater and come up breaststroke. I almost was unable to breath after that moved in a 200 Im in practice. One asking these questions because I thinking maybe I might do a 200 IM in a meet and don't want to be DQ because of illegal turns on the backstroke or back to ***.
Every "good" backstroker I've seen executes a corkscrew like maneuver on the last recovery. This puts the swimmer on his or her *** at which point the recovered arm is pulled through and the swimmer somersaults just like in a freestyle turn.
For the back-to-*** IM transition I've seen several techniques including: a normal open turn, a spin turn (like the old backstroke turn), and sort of a backwards flip where the hand touches and the swimmer throws his legs over his head putting him on his ***. I think the open turn is slowest, but it does allow you to get a little extra breath in at the wall.
Every "good" backstroker I've seen executes a corkscrew like maneuver on the last recovery. This puts the swimmer on his or her *** at which point the recovered arm is pulled through and the swimmer somersaults just like in a freestyle turn.
For the back-to-*** IM transition I've seen several techniques including: a normal open turn, a spin turn (like the old backstroke turn), and sort of a backwards flip where the hand touches and the swimmer throws his legs over his head putting him on his ***. I think the open turn is slowest, but it does allow you to get a little extra breath in at the wall.
