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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Breaststroke has totally changed in recent years.In 1986 the rules were changed so that instead of your head having to break the surface all the time it only had to break the surface once/stroke.You also then could recover your hands over the surface.The hand recovery rule was then clarified that your elbows must be in the water at all times.The hand recovery rule hasn't made much difference,but the head rule has totally changed the stroke.Go to
http://breaststroke.info/ for more information.At the 2004 Olympics Kitajima won the 100M BR while famously doing a dolphin kick during the pulldown.The refs didn't call it and said that it was hard to tell a dolphin kick from the natural undulation that could accompany a hard pulldown.The rule was changed to allow this,but then Kitajima started doing the Dolphin kick before the pulldown.Rather than say "enough is enough" FINA wimped out again and clarified that the pulldown begins as soon as the hands are separated.
So basically, the legal glide is now streamline glide, pull with single dolphin kick, frog kick during recovery, then surface?
Breaststroke has totally changed in recent years.In 1986 the rules were changed so that instead of your head having to break the surface all the time it only had to break the surface once/stroke.You also then could recover your hands over the surface.The hand recovery rule was then clarified that your elbows must be in the water at all times.The hand recovery rule hasn't made much difference,but the head rule has totally changed the stroke.Go to
http://breaststroke.info/ for more information.At the 2004 Olympics Kitajima won the 100M BR while famously doing a dolphin kick during the pulldown.The refs didn't call it and said that it was hard to tell a dolphin kick from the natural undulation that could accompany a hard pulldown.The rule was changed to allow this,but then Kitajima started doing the Dolphin kick before the pulldown.Rather than say "enough is enough" FINA wimped out again and clarified that the pulldown begins as soon as the hands are separated.
So basically, the legal glide is now streamline glide, pull with single dolphin kick, frog kick during recovery, then surface?
