So, I watched some of the Australia meet events tonight and I have a question concerning breastroke.
I watched in slow-mo about 10 times and I swear the breastrokers are taking two dolphin kicks on the dive entry before the now-legal one big dolphin kick. Is this now legal also, the two small little dolphin kicks?
Geek, I think that the rules for backstroke just state that you have to be on your back. For example, you could do elementary backstroke and that would be completely legal (though slow). So the dolphin kick was always fine by the original rules, so long as you are on your back... and follow the later-added rule of surfacing before the 15m point (though I think it would be legal if you surfaced and just kept on kicking dolphin at the surface of the water on your back.
I quite honestly would prefer that the single dolphin kick was removed from breaststroke entirely. It irritates me that people are adding more kicks. The IM won't be all that interesting if it's nothing but dolphin, dolphin, dolphin, and maybe a few strokes of free at the end. Blech.
Geek, I think that the rules for backstroke just state that you have to be on your back. For example, you could do elementary backstroke and that would be completely legal (though slow). So the dolphin kick was always fine by the original rules, so long as you are on your back... and follow the later-added rule of surfacing before the 15m point (though I think it would be legal if you surfaced and just kept on kicking dolphin at the surface of the water on your back.
I quite honestly would prefer that the single dolphin kick was removed from breaststroke entirely. It irritates me that people are adding more kicks. The IM won't be all that interesting if it's nothing but dolphin, dolphin, dolphin, and maybe a few strokes of free at the end. Blech.
