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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I don't like allowing breaststroke kick in butterfly, although I would hesitate to eliminate it for the older age groups, but I can't see any justification for removing it from backstroke which is not back crawl but freestyle with the added restriction that you have to stay on your back (except for the turn exception, which I think was one of the biggest rule blunders ever). It would be like banning dolphin kicks from free and back, what would the justification be?
I don't like allowing breaststroke kick in butterfly, although I would hesitate to eliminate it for the older age groups, but I can't see any justification for removing it from backstroke which is not back crawl but freestyle with the added restriction that you have to stay on your back (except for the turn exception, which I think was one of the biggest rule blunders ever). It would be like banning dolphin kicks from free and back, what would the justification be?
