In another thread I read that an unnamed USS coach was teaching using 2 dolphin kicks in breaststroke pullout,sneaking the first one in after the dive (like Kitajima did.) I had previously heard coaches teaching dolphin kick on the pullout before it was legal saying "I'll keep teaching it until they DQ it." What do you all think of this? I think the refs should watch for this and DQ the swimmers of course,but I think the coach should be flogged I don't care how many Olympians the might have trained.
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When I played water polo, our coach was the unarmed combat instructor for the Canadian navy (multiple black belt) who also brought in some of his 'pals' (like his counterpart from Israel) to teach us some 'nifty' underwater moves that the refs would miss (the 'nutcracker' was a declaration of war). For some reason, when we went to the Cdn junior champs our opponents took some exception to these tactics. My rambling point is this: some 'cheating' can look awfully neat to the adolescent, but abhorrent to the adult, thus it falls on us to provide leadership in condemning clear exhortations to cheat.
When I played water polo, our coach was the unarmed combat instructor for the Canadian navy (multiple black belt) who also brought in some of his 'pals' (like his counterpart from Israel) to teach us some 'nifty' underwater moves that the refs would miss (the 'nutcracker' was a declaration of war). For some reason, when we went to the Cdn junior champs our opponents took some exception to these tactics. My rambling point is this: some 'cheating' can look awfully neat to the adolescent, but abhorrent to the adult, thus it falls on us to provide leadership in condemning clear exhortations to cheat.
