Given the new FINA/NCAA/ USA/USMS rule changes related to the breaststroke pullouts/turns have people out there figured out WHEN to introduce the now allowed dolphin kick for maximum advantage.
My only input, and not a very detailed one at that, is from daughter who is freshman at a DIV III swimming power. She told them they are introducing the dolphin during the pulldown phase "at about the point" when people were formerly DQ'd for illegal dolphin. She claimed it was "hard to explain", this by the way from an English major, and so I'm not taking this description at 100% of face value. I presume though she meant at the finish of the pull phase when the body can go into a natural dolphin.
What is the current practice?
BTW, I did notice that the Div III A times for the breaststroke events are significantly faster this year but the B times are just about unchanged. I guess they are worried that the new kick might result in much faster times.
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Originally posted by Fritz
"101.2.3- Kick - After the start and after each turn, a single downward butterfly (dolphin) kick followed by a breaststroke kick is permitted while wholly submerged."
Couldn't you take the kick in the middle of the pool or even at the finish? I don't see how this wording says it has to be during the underwater phase of a turn. The middle of the pool is after the turn and the finish is after the turn.
Heh, Don't think that was the intent...
If they get too many arguments like yours they may have to do a housekeeping rule change to read "Immediately following the start"
Read the rest of the rule too, talking about where feet should point during the propulsive phase of the kick, and how your feet can't break the surface during the dolphin...
that makes it kind of hard to do mid way through the race... and I don't think it would be advantageous.
Originally posted by Fritz
"101.2.3- Kick - After the start and after each turn, a single downward butterfly (dolphin) kick followed by a breaststroke kick is permitted while wholly submerged."
Couldn't you take the kick in the middle of the pool or even at the finish? I don't see how this wording says it has to be during the underwater phase of a turn. The middle of the pool is after the turn and the finish is after the turn.
Heh, Don't think that was the intent...
If they get too many arguments like yours they may have to do a housekeeping rule change to read "Immediately following the start"
Read the rest of the rule too, talking about where feet should point during the propulsive phase of the kick, and how your feet can't break the surface during the dolphin...
that makes it kind of hard to do mid way through the race... and I don't think it would be advantageous.
