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
I could be wrong, but I think this is the turn I do, I'm such a fan of getting to that breaststroke as fast as possible :rolleyes:
However, it does take loosey goosey shoulders. I finish my back leg like I would a backstroke race, by diving down under water, then just do a backflip, perhaps easier with the gymnastics background because I learned it in about 2 seconds ...
I could be wrong, but I think this is the turn I do, I'm such a fan of getting to that breaststroke as fast as possible :rolleyes:
However, it does take loosey goosey shoulders. I finish my back leg like I would a backstroke race, by diving down under water, then just do a backflip, perhaps easier with the gymnastics background because I learned it in about 2 seconds ...
