As noted in "Swim Rant" I was DQ'd in the 100 M BR yesterday,after swimming a really great race for me(unfairly I believe.)I was talking to Laura Val who was DQ'd in the 200 BK after a WR time(unfairly she thought).She thought we should have a thread to ventilate,commiserate,etc.Has it happened to you?How did you cope?
I felt like leaving the pool and not competing any more,for about 5 minutes,then I felt really sad for about an hour. Then I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and had a terrible time going back to sleep.Finally I decided to focus my emotions on my next swim.Fortunately for me that worked and I swam a 50 M BR that I was really happy with.If I had swum a lousy 50 I suspect I'd still be in a funk.
So what about you?
By the way,we don't need to limit this to DQs,any meet disappointments that you want to vent about are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
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OK - to clear this up for me. On breaststroke, can you do 1 dolfin kick before the arms do a pullout? OR must you do it in the middle of the pullout ?
The rule says that the pull must precede the dolphin kick. Interpretation....the pull can be any downward or sideways movement of the hands, and that such 'pull' need not be continuous.
While a movement lasting a fraction of a second for a fraction of an inch, followed by a pause, or even the hands not separating from each other if indeed that is the position they may be in out of a streamline off the blocks/wall, may not seem like a pull, they are interpreted as a pull!
Because of this, I suggest that the rule pertaining to the pull before the kick off the blocks/wall be dropped altogether if indeed we are strapped with US interpretation of FINA's interpretation of this rule (the pull/kick rule is both FINA and USAS).
OK - to clear this up for me. On breaststroke, can you do 1 dolfin kick before the arms do a pullout? OR must you do it in the middle of the pullout ?
The rule says that the pull must precede the dolphin kick. Interpretation....the pull can be any downward or sideways movement of the hands, and that such 'pull' need not be continuous.
While a movement lasting a fraction of a second for a fraction of an inch, followed by a pause, or even the hands not separating from each other if indeed that is the position they may be in out of a streamline off the blocks/wall, may not seem like a pull, they are interpreted as a pull!
Because of this, I suggest that the rule pertaining to the pull before the kick off the blocks/wall be dropped altogether if indeed we are strapped with US interpretation of FINA's interpretation of this rule (the pull/kick rule is both FINA and USAS).
