Found this video on youtube while researching breaststroke drills:
YouTube- Swimming - Breaststroke - Underwater Pull, Power Phase
For those not able to see the video, the gist is: The dolphin kick can start with any parallel or downward motion of the hands (per the video).
Does this rule interpretation apply to USMS? Hopefully someone with authoritative knowledge can give their .02... As I am setting up my drill/practice routines I'd like to do it the right way : ).
Thanks :bow: to any or all guru's who reply!
Chris
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My take on the FINA rule change was similar to Paul's, that FINA had blown it by allowing one kick which just led to swimmers trying to take two. While reading this thread I began to wonder if a more reasonable interpretation was that you get one and only one movement that resembles a dolphin kick, so you have the choice of doing a dolphin kick early in the pull and then executing the pull down with absolutely no hint of a dolphin kick whether due to natural undulation or not, or you can build your dolphin kick into the natural undulation, but not both. I have no idea if officials are instructed to interpret it this way or not but it makes the FINA rule more understandable than if you allow one early dolphin plus a "natural undulation".
Popular folklore has it that the change in the FINA rule was based largely on the Kitajima incident in Athens but the issue of incorporating a dolphin kick into the natural undulation of the pull down was a much wider issue that needed to be dealt with.
My take on the FINA rule change was similar to Paul's, that FINA had blown it by allowing one kick which just led to swimmers trying to take two. While reading this thread I began to wonder if a more reasonable interpretation was that you get one and only one movement that resembles a dolphin kick, so you have the choice of doing a dolphin kick early in the pull and then executing the pull down with absolutely no hint of a dolphin kick whether due to natural undulation or not, or you can build your dolphin kick into the natural undulation, but not both. I have no idea if officials are instructed to interpret it this way or not but it makes the FINA rule more understandable than if you allow one early dolphin plus a "natural undulation".
Popular folklore has it that the change in the FINA rule was based largely on the Kitajima incident in Athens but the issue of incorporating a dolphin kick into the natural undulation of the pull down was a much wider issue that needed to be dealt with.
