Simple. You have absolute power to change any technique rules, start/finish rules, age up rules, sky is the limit as long as the rules pertain to swimming. What would you change and why?
Allow backstrokers to do the stand up start with feet in gutter and holding side of block. When did that go aways anyways?
couldn't have been that long ago - a girl on my high school team did it her four years, and she graduated in 1999.
maybe people just stopped doing it because it wasn't as fast as the other?
is it in the rules that you can't do it?
i think it died with the high school rule change in either 2000 or 2001. high school rules used to allow you to have most of your foot out of the water, so if you could get your feet on the gutter and still have your heels in the water, you could do that start. but with the rule change, high school rules matched USS rules and made you keep your whole foot under water. but i think that has since changed, again. :shakeshead:
Allow backstrokers to do the stand up start with feet in gutter and holding side of block. When did that go aways anyways?
couldn't have been that long ago - a girl on my high school team did it her four years, and she graduated in 1999.
maybe people just stopped doing it because it wasn't as fast as the other?
is it in the rules that you can't do it?
i think it died with the high school rule change in either 2000 or 2001. high school rules used to allow you to have most of your foot out of the water, so if you could get your feet on the gutter and still have your heels in the water, you could do that start. but with the rule change, high school rules matched USS rules and made you keep your whole foot under water. but i think that has since changed, again. :shakeshead:
