Beard DQ at WC

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com Something just hit me! There are great differences between FINA/USMS & high school & NCAA. Why? No wonder peole get DQ'ed for what seems like minor faults. the guy who looks at my strokes is a judge for high schools. He is very strict about form. Does he have to be? The rules for USS and USMS are almost verbatim the same. The only real difference is that USMS allows the breaststroke kick to be used in butterfly, while USS does not. The rules for FINA are nearly the same as the USS rules, except that they occasionally use a different word to express the same concept. The rules for NCAA are worded in a significantly different way from the USS, USMS, and FINA rules. Because of the significant differences in how the NCAA rules are worded, it is difficult to define exactly what the differences in meaning are, though it is clear that there are some things that are forbidden by the NCAA rules that would not be forbidden by the USS, USMS, or FINA rules. If someone has only been trained in refereeing according to NCAA rules, what he says will not be reliable for swimmers who compete in USS, USMS, or FINA competitions. As for why the NCAA rules are different - well, you'd have to ask NCAA! When USS, USMS, and FINA are all in agreement about the rules, it's hard to see why anyone running swim meets would want to adopt a different set of rules!

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com Something just hit me! There are great differences between FINA/USMS & high school & NCAA. Why? No wonder peole get DQ'ed for what seems like minor faults. the guy who looks at my strokes is a judge for high schools. He is very strict about form. Does he have to be? The rules for USS and USMS are almost verbatim the same. The only real difference is that USMS allows the breaststroke kick to be used in butterfly, while USS does not. The rules for FINA are nearly the same as the USS rules, except that they occasionally use a different word to express the same concept. The rules for NCAA are worded in a significantly different way from the USS, USMS, and FINA rules. Because of the significant differences in how the NCAA rules are worded, it is difficult to define exactly what the differences in meaning are, though it is clear that there are some things that are forbidden by the NCAA rules that would not be forbidden by the USS, USMS, or FINA rules. If someone has only been trained in refereeing according to NCAA rules, what he says will not be reliable for swimmers who compete in USS, USMS, or FINA competitions. As for why the NCAA rules are different - well, you'd have to ask NCAA! When USS, USMS, and FINA are all in agreement about the rules, it's hard to see why anyone running swim meets would want to adopt a different set of rules!