Just wondering what folks are working on in their training or to prepare for meets this upcoming SCY season. I'm always interested in what people are doing and why.
For me, in an ideal world, I intend to work on:
improving my SDKs off turns
improving my free and *** technique
doing more strength and core work
increasing DPS
doing more race pace work throughout the season
swimming a 100 fly in SCY and SCM for the first time
taking some time off my 100 IM; I've been stuck in a rut
doing a fast 100 back this year; didn't get around to it last year
The flip is faster, and it's what I do. If you don't overreach with your touching arm, you won't get DQ'd ... unless the judge has never seen it done before or is not standing directly over your lane, in which case he or she will think you've rotated onto your stomach.
For anyone who does the crossover turn: If you get DQ'd, ask the judge where he or she was standing. If they were not standing directly over the lane (or at most, one lane over), they were not in a good position to judge the turn, and you can dispute it. I've done it before, and won.
Those 90 percent who were DQ'd probably were legal, but the judge freaked out. In masters, I've had a few stroke judges ask me to demonstrate the turn to them after the meet because they were never taught how to judge it.
I don't think the turn is discussed often in stroke and turn seminars for judges, but I could be wrong.
The flip is faster, and it's what I do. If you don't overreach with your touching arm, you won't get DQ'd ... unless the judge has never seen it done before or is not standing directly over your lane, in which case he or she will think you've rotated onto your stomach.
For anyone who does the crossover turn: If you get DQ'd, ask the judge where he or she was standing. If they were not standing directly over the lane (or at most, one lane over), they were not in a good position to judge the turn, and you can dispute it. I've done it before, and won.
Those 90 percent who were DQ'd probably were legal, but the judge freaked out. In masters, I've had a few stroke judges ask me to demonstrate the turn to them after the meet because they were never taught how to judge it.
I don't think the turn is discussed often in stroke and turn seminars for judges, but I could be wrong.
