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The Butterfly Lane

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Butterfly, beautiful to watch, difficult to train. We SDK off every wall. We're most likely to smack hands with each other and those beside us. Fly's fun to sprint but no fun when the piano comes down What did you do in practice today? the breastroke lane The Middle Distance Lane The Backstroke Lane The Butterfly Lane The SDK Lane The Taper Lane The Distance Lane The IM Lane The Sprint Free Lane The Pool Deck
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    OK, to unhijack this thread, I do have an actual butterfly question. These are the rules of the stroke: Stroke—After the start and after each turn, the swimmer’s shoulders must be at or past the vertical toward the ***. The swimmer is permitted one or more leg kicks, but only one arm pull under water, which must bring the swimmer to the surface. (Note: After the start and after each turn, only one breaststroke kick is allowed prior to the arm pull that brings the swimmer to the surface.) It shall be permissible for a swimmer to be completely submerged for a distance of not more than 15 meters (16.4 yards) after the start and after each turn. By that point, the head must have broken the surface. The swimmer must remain on the surface until the next turn or finish. From the beginning of the first arm pull, the body shall be kept on the ***. Both arms must be brought forward over the water and pulled back simultaneously. Now to the context of the question: Yesterday, at the end of a set with a lot of butterfly, which is something I have not swum a lot of in recent memory, I was quite tired and started inserting a third kick as my hands entered the water on the recovery, giving me a glide not unlike that you have in breaststroke. Basically, I was trying to avoid having to go to one-arm fly. (I'm stubborn.) Question: Is this actually legal?
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  • Former Member
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    OK, to unhijack this thread, I do have an actual butterfly question. These are the rules of the stroke: Stroke—After the start and after each turn, the swimmer’s shoulders must be at or past the vertical toward the ***. The swimmer is permitted one or more leg kicks, but only one arm pull under water, which must bring the swimmer to the surface. (Note: After the start and after each turn, only one breaststroke kick is allowed prior to the arm pull that brings the swimmer to the surface.) It shall be permissible for a swimmer to be completely submerged for a distance of not more than 15 meters (16.4 yards) after the start and after each turn. By that point, the head must have broken the surface. The swimmer must remain on the surface until the next turn or finish. From the beginning of the first arm pull, the body shall be kept on the ***. Both arms must be brought forward over the water and pulled back simultaneously. Now to the context of the question: Yesterday, at the end of a set with a lot of butterfly, which is something I have not swum a lot of in recent memory, I was quite tired and started inserting a third kick as my hands entered the water on the recovery, giving me a glide not unlike that you have in breaststroke. Basically, I was trying to avoid having to go to one-arm fly. (I'm stubborn.) Question: Is this actually legal?
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