I'm a new Master's swimmer. I workout on my own for now, and plan to enter a few SCY meets in 2007. Presently, I'm 45 (yep one of those 45-49 in that age group bubble, unfortunately) and will swim some 50 and 100 yard breaststroke, and maybe 50 yard freestyle to get a meet time and have a few chuckles. I've read through the forum (not the entire forum) and haven't stumbled across this topic yet. Ok, my question is regarding the USMS Rule 101.2.3 Kick (Breaststroke) it states, "After the start and after each turn a single downward butterfly (dolphin) kick followed by a breaststroke kick is permitted while wholly submerged,....."
What is this dolphin kick off the start and turn, who does it, how should you incorporate it properly not to DQ?
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Warren, thanks for the video clip. That makes it pretty clear, what and when to do. Does everybody today swim breaststroke turns and starts this way? When I swam breaststroke back in the stone age, no one used the dolphin kick on the start and turns. When did the rule get ammended to allow this?
Actually the timing of the kick in the clip is not typical, most swimmers time the kick in the second half of the pull down so that the kick completes about the time the hands reach the hips. I just watched several finals from a tape of the Commonwealth Games and only saw one swimmer perform the kick in the front half of the pull down.
The rule was changed in the fall of 2005. The clip is actually of the Japanese swimmer, Kitajima, in Athens. He caused the controversy, before the rule change, which probably initiated the rule change.
Warren, thanks for the video clip. That makes it pretty clear, what and when to do. Does everybody today swim breaststroke turns and starts this way? When I swam breaststroke back in the stone age, no one used the dolphin kick on the start and turns. When did the rule get ammended to allow this?
Actually the timing of the kick in the clip is not typical, most swimmers time the kick in the second half of the pull down so that the kick completes about the time the hands reach the hips. I just watched several finals from a tape of the Commonwealth Games and only saw one swimmer perform the kick in the front half of the pull down.
The rule was changed in the fall of 2005. The clip is actually of the Japanese swimmer, Kitajima, in Athens. He caused the controversy, before the rule change, which probably initiated the rule change.
