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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The rollover turn is basically the same turn that you use for the backstroke turn now, except that you are touching the wall with your top arm as you are rolling over towards your ***
The same turn now being the open flip not the full flip.See video.
youtube.com/watch
Or as you touch with your lead arm roll the opposite way .see video.Hold bar manually for slow motion.
youtube.com/watch
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The rollover turn is basically the same turn that you use for the backstroke turn now, except that you are touching the wall with your top arm as you are rolling over towards your ***
The same turn now being the open flip not the full flip.See video.
youtube.com/watch
Or as you touch with your lead arm roll the opposite way .see video.Hold bar manually for slow motion.
youtube.com/watch
