How Cheaters Cheat in practice and meets might stir up a lively discussion.
Here's the RULES
Swimming Rules
How do cheaters cheat?
Got any stories?
Did they get caught or get away with it?
If you see someone cheating or know they are
do you point it out to the ref or keep quiet?
If pulling on the lane ropes in practice was cheating, they wouldn't have put hand holds all along the length of the rope. ...Now if there were just some way you could use them in the other strokes.
I use them occasionally in freestyle as I come out of a streamline, but rather than pulling with my bottom arm to level my body, I just use the top arm to grab those hand holds on the lane line and get going. :) Usually only do this cooling down or while just doing back and forth stuff waiting for the others that jump in late to finish their warmup...
If pulling on the lane ropes in practice was cheating, they wouldn't have put hand holds all along the length of the rope. ...Now if there were just some way you could use them in the other strokes.
I use them occasionally in freestyle as I come out of a streamline, but rather than pulling with my bottom arm to level my body, I just use the top arm to grab those hand holds on the lane line and get going. :) Usually only do this cooling down or while just doing back and forth stuff waiting for the others that jump in late to finish their warmup...
