Ok, so I laid out of the pool for over 25 years. What I'm seeing now is dolphin kick off the wall seems to be SOP for every stroke. Is that true?
Are there any rules and restrictions about this that a returning swimmer should know about? Anything that'll get you DQed?
Thanks.
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ok, i'll have a go:
breaststroke rules now allow one dolphin kick during the pullout only.
dolphin is the only legal kick for fly.
any kick including dolphin is legal for free and back.
many people are faster at dolphin kicking off the wall than flutter kicking, especially those who learned it growing up, and some are faster dolphin kicking underwater than swimming at the surface. this is limited in free, fly and back by the rules to the first 15m off the wall (or blocks).
dolphin kicking uses a lot of air so most distance freestylers take few if any dolphin kicks at least until the last lap or so.
Thanks much.
So those who use the dolphin kick in breaststroke replace the frog kick in their triple glide with a dolphin kick, then? You can't do a frog kick and a dolphin kick, I'm assuming.
ok, i'll have a go:
breaststroke rules now allow one dolphin kick during the pullout only.
dolphin is the only legal kick for fly.
any kick including dolphin is legal for free and back.
many people are faster at dolphin kicking off the wall than flutter kicking, especially those who learned it growing up, and some are faster dolphin kicking underwater than swimming at the surface. this is limited in free, fly and back by the rules to the first 15m off the wall (or blocks).
dolphin kicking uses a lot of air so most distance freestylers take few if any dolphin kicks at least until the last lap or so.
Thanks much.
So those who use the dolphin kick in breaststroke replace the frog kick in their triple glide with a dolphin kick, then? You can't do a frog kick and a dolphin kick, I'm assuming.
