This suprises me

RE: This suprises me

Former Member — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:35:54 GMT

I've just always been told that only freestyle was faster than fly. This is true. But short course backstroke isn't backstroke at all. It's 15M of dolphin kicking 5 yards of swimming and a flip turn. IMHO, shouldn't be called backstroke anymore. I never understood while the swimming rules makers gave the same underwater limit for SC and LC swimming.

RE: This suprises me

Allen Stark — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:25:17 GMT

The reason may be silly,but they determined in their infinite wisdom that swimming more than 15M underwater caused a risk of passing out.This would happen back when it was legal to swim breaststroke underwater so there is some rational to it,but 15M is arbitrary.

RE: This suprises me

Former Member — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:40 GMT

I've just always been told that only freestyle was faster than fly.

RE: This suprises me

ande — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:57:40 GMT

not surprising at all Lochte one of the best SDKers in the world ( he gets to SDK 8 lenths) plus he gets to rollover and flip each turn, while Phelps did open turns If Phelps was able to flip on the fly turns it would be a way different story ande en.wikipedia.org/.../United_States_records_in_swimming Go down to the SCY records and note that Lochte's 200 Back is 2 seconds faster then Phelp's 200 Fly record.