Coaches will always tell you on the two short axis strokes of breaststroke and butterfly, never pull into a turn. Always kick into the turn. By adjusting your stroke about 5 meters out, looking at the wall, you will automatically adjust and come into the wall with all the power of the breaststroke kick.
But what if you are at the Olympics and you have misjudged the turn. Your kick has finished too far out and you have to pull into the wall. What do you do? Why cheat of course!
Check out the mpeg video called bossini2004a.mpeg at swimfastest.net/.../athens2004.html
This video of Paolo Bossini and Kitajima in heat 4 of the 200 ***, shows the start of the race, where both Bossini and Kitajima have some loose legs but not actual dolphin kicks like what Kitajima did in the 100.
What is interesting is at frames 700-731 (23.357 to 24.358 sec) which distinctly shows a downwards dolphin and eddy to push him (Bossini) into the turn faster. His kick ended at frames 653 (21.788 sec) and he is pulling into a turn, which every breaststroker knows is a no no.
So to keep himself up he dolphins into the turn.
This is how you cheat at the Olympics:mad:
Avery Lee's video processing tool VirtualDub www186.pair.com/.../index.html
This will allow you to move the slider and go frame by frame.
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Flip turn will always be faster than any open turn.
How does the rule define exactly what the *** kick is? this is very confusing to me. I think the abouve statement is good but when does the stroke begin, when does the kick begin? When I was taught *** stroke & when I look at the rules, it seems that the stroke begins at the start with the arms moving outward. Does this mean that anything done before that movement of the arms is not the stroke and should be counted as part of the first stroke? I could see where that could be the interpretation. would it have been legal if he had only done one dolphin then one stroke then had his head break the surface?
On the turn, the same questions??????
Flip turn will always be faster than any open turn.
How does the rule define exactly what the *** kick is? this is very confusing to me. I think the abouve statement is good but when does the stroke begin, when does the kick begin? When I was taught *** stroke & when I look at the rules, it seems that the stroke begins at the start with the arms moving outward. Does this mean that anything done before that movement of the arms is not the stroke and should be counted as part of the first stroke? I could see where that could be the interpretation. would it have been legal if he had only done one dolphin then one stroke then had his head break the surface?
On the turn, the same questions??????
