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?
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.
Lindsay:
I think he set a bad example and a lot of the world class swimmers were starting to do it and some were getting caught and some were not and that is the reason I think that FINA changed the rule because it was not being called a lot. At the USAS Convention in 2005, there was a VHS tape of all the races at the World Championships in Montreal in the masters hospitality room. I remember everyone watching both the 100 and 200 breastroke races and everyone commenting on how everyone was doing this after the start and on the turns. In fact, Wayne McCauley was commenting on this as we put the races in slow motion and saw a lot of it happening. The problem was that some were doing it a lot more than others and there was inconsistancies with the calling of DQ's.
An example of this was a guy named Jim Piper from Australia. He got a DQ for moving his foot in a dolphin like motion while others with more of a straight, powerful thrust of the dolphin kick got a way with it. The change in the rule was not suprising to me because of these things that happened since 2004.
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.
Lindsay:
I think he set a bad example and a lot of the world class swimmers were starting to do it and some were getting caught and some were not and that is the reason I think that FINA changed the rule because it was not being called a lot. At the USAS Convention in 2005, there was a VHS tape of all the races at the World Championships in Montreal in the masters hospitality room. I remember everyone watching both the 100 and 200 breastroke races and everyone commenting on how everyone was doing this after the start and on the turns. In fact, Wayne McCauley was commenting on this as we put the races in slow motion and saw a lot of it happening. The problem was that some were doing it a lot more than others and there was inconsistancies with the calling of DQ's.
An example of this was a guy named Jim Piper from Australia. He got a DQ for moving his foot in a dolphin like motion while others with more of a straight, powerful thrust of the dolphin kick got a way with it. The change in the rule was not suprising to me because of these things that happened since 2004.
