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?
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Just for reference purposes, the actual FINA rule wording is:
A single downward dolphin kick followed by a breaststroke kick is permitted while wholly submerged.
fina.org/.../swimming.php
Perhaps this is the kick FINA needs to initiate use of underwater video in judging. With the commercialization of webcam technology it shouldn't be expensive to do relative to the cost of timing pads.
It might actually be good thing for underwater cameras to become "standard equipment" in pools, in terms of making video analysis more widely available.
Just for reference purposes, the actual FINA rule wording is:
A single downward dolphin kick followed by a breaststroke kick is permitted while wholly submerged.
fina.org/.../swimming.php
Perhaps this is the kick FINA needs to initiate use of underwater video in judging. With the commercialization of webcam technology it shouldn't be expensive to do relative to the cost of timing pads.
It might actually be good thing for underwater cameras to become "standard equipment" in pools, in terms of making video analysis more widely available.
