This question has come up offline so I thought I'd post the question to find out the rule about this transitional turn between the IM's back and *** since I no longer do IMs.
Years ago, a flip turn between back and *** was allowed; it was not the new "freestyle" back turn, a swimmer could touch the wall in backstroke, and then flip over to enter the breastroke. Now I believe more swimmers are backstroking into the wall and open turning into the breaststroke portion of the IM.
For all of you Im'ers out there, what is now legal: both turns or does a swimmer have to do an "open turn"?
Donna
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There are several videos of the back-*** turn that might make it easier to make out what is going on than the Phelps video. The underwater ones in particular:
youtube.com/profile_videos
Is there any way to view videos from youtube frame by frame or in slow motion?
Lindsay great link!
I'll be trying that tonight.
There are several videos of the back-*** turn that might make it easier to make out what is going on than the Phelps video. The underwater ones in particular:
youtube.com/profile_videos
Is there any way to view videos from youtube frame by frame or in slow motion?
Lindsay great link!
I'll be trying that tonight.
