The recent Butterfly rules interpretation - recovery of the arms got me wondering if you swim the style of breaststroke where you recover your arms above the water (except your elbows) is legal butterfly, if only for masters where the breaststroke kick is allowed. The rules don't specify that you have to recover the arms out to the side so as long as you recover your arms high enough it should be legal?
From my reading legal breaststroke would not be legal butterfly because the elbows never break the surface,neither the top nor the bottom of the elbows.It does raise the question:if you swim "breaststroke" with an exaggerated back arch like Amanda Beard and then get both arms completely out of the water ,is it legal?
From my reading legal breaststroke would not be legal butterfly because the elbows never break the surface,neither the top nor the bottom of the elbows.It does raise the question:if you swim "breaststroke" with an exaggerated back arch like Amanda Beard and then get both arms completely out of the water ,is it legal?
