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?
I come off the wall on my back,do a dolphin kick,then do a BR pullout,then take 4 more BR strokes(regular stroke,except underwater on my back) and then surface(and slow down,my BK is bad.I swam a 200 BK LCM once and I had to make sure the timers had calendar watches.)
Tried this out this morning. First time, I nearly drowned. All sorts of water up my nose. The next time, it went better. The problem was that as soon as I surfaced, the brakes came on before I could get my first stroke in. The plus side was that I got a full 10 meters in before I had to do a stroke :). I see some benefit here if I can transition from upside down *** stroke to back stroke a little smoother. I'm swimming a 200 backstroke in a meet this weekend right before 50 ***. I'm not taking the 200 back too seriously so I wonder if this might be a good warm-up for my next event.
This thread could be about drugs but there's many other ways to cheat besides drugs.
Like a few years back I heard of a masters swimmer who broke an IM WR.
In the race this swimmer did a freestyle turn on the bk to br turn.
Just rolled over on stomach, hand never hit the wall & swimmer wasn't DQed.
I think this thread should be focused more on cheating in meets,
everybody cheats in practice and nobody gets deeked.
thought it might be fun to discuss how cheaters cheat &
I hope folks avoid personal attacks.
Also there's intentional cheating and unintentional cheating.
Intentional is doing something on purpose.
like taking performance enhancing drugs or sneaking in extra dolphin kicks on breastroke.
Unintentional is unplanned.
like leaving early on a relay because a teammate messed up their touch.
I thought this thread would be about drugs, not what swimmers do in masters perogative practices. :bolt:
It happened to me, I was in the water swimming when the gun went off. I won the race and was not d'qd. Now did I cheat or were the officials nuts.
During the 50 Free in my last meet I rolled and jumped the gun on the start. I finished the event and just assumed I was deeked; I figured the overworked starter didn't have time to tell me. I was shocked a couple days later when I saw my name in on-line results in 1st place for the event and not DQ'd. I didn't mean to do it! I hope people realized I would have pushed off the block instead of falling like a tree if I were doing it to gain advantage. Anyway this thread makes me feel a little guilty!
