At the U.S. Trials there was one official in every lane looking at the turns, so now that we're in Athens, how does Kitajima get away with that dolphin kick on his turn? It seemed clear to me from the above water shot, then was confirmed with the underwater. Other breaststrokers care to weigh in?
Parents
Former Member
Originally posted by aquageek
I did watch everyone's turn as it is possible to look at a TV screen and see more than one person. Kitajima's were much more pronounced.
Apparently this Kitajima dude's turns were a sore subject at world's last year, according to Rowdy anyway.
See Phil Whitten's editorial in www.swiminfo.com
Makes two interesting points:
*Violation of dolphin kick, based on underwater tape, suggests that Kitajima was not the only one
*Points out the difficulty of judging this from above-water views
*Suggests that judges have access to underwater video to specifically look for such violations
Several letters to swiminfo make this suggestion and point out that we have specific judges on deck that look at the 15 meter mark to watch for underwater kicking violation in the other strokes.
This is an excellent suggestion for large international meets but is obviously not practical for our local/regional meets.
Originally posted by aquageek
I did watch everyone's turn as it is possible to look at a TV screen and see more than one person. Kitajima's were much more pronounced.
Apparently this Kitajima dude's turns were a sore subject at world's last year, according to Rowdy anyway.
See Phil Whitten's editorial in www.swiminfo.com
Makes two interesting points:
*Violation of dolphin kick, based on underwater tape, suggests that Kitajima was not the only one
*Points out the difficulty of judging this from above-water views
*Suggests that judges have access to underwater video to specifically look for such violations
Several letters to swiminfo make this suggestion and point out that we have specific judges on deck that look at the 15 meter mark to watch for underwater kicking violation in the other strokes.
This is an excellent suggestion for large international meets but is obviously not practical for our local/regional meets.
