• Video Explanations

    BREASTSTROKE

    • Traditional stroke reg and slo mo
    • Start with downward kick- two samples
    • OHT, Repeat slo mo
    • Scissors kick reg and slo mo
    • Out of Cycle- kick BEFORE pull, repeat slo mo
    • Two Pulls past hip, head not up, repeat slo mo
    • Downward kick, 2 samples
    • Pull not horizontal, repeat slo mo

     

    BUTTERFLY

    • sample stroke and turn
    • UWR during swim
    • UWR at Finish, repeat slo mo
    • Past Vertical on dolphin kick off wall, repeat slo mo.
    • Non simultaneous arms, repeat slo mo

     

    BACKSTROKE

    • Normal start
    • Turn- no flip
    • Flip Turns, 3 samples of legal single arm pull continuous turns. 3rd sample is a slow scull
    • Simultaneous 2 arm pull, repeat in slo-mo
    • NCT after pull
    • NCT before pull
    • Non-simultaneous double arm pull
    • Submerged at the finish- legal
    • Submerged BEFORE the finish- illegal

    IM BACK TO BREAST TRANSITION

    • Touch on back then and flip, 2 samples
    • Crossover turn, touch at vertical, repeat slo-mo
    • Bucket turn - touch and twist
    • Past vertical at back finish, repeat slo-mo

     

    YOU MAKE THE CALL- plays series of examples in a row, then reviews
    them, some in slo-mo.

    BREASTSTROKE

    • #1 alternate arms and legs, hands past hips (HPH)
    • Downward kick
    • Downward kick, HPH, One hand touch (OHT), right hand
    • Downward kick, HPH
    • One Hand Touch, right only
    • Alternating kick to surface
    • Scissors kick and downward kick
    • Head up but not breathing every cycle (legal)-  some part of the head just has to break surface.
    • Toes not out

     

    BUTTERFLY

    • Swimmer #1Breaststroke kick (toes out), Swimmer #2 Alternating Kick
    • Ugly but Legal- (UWR in swim ? some part of arms are out, have to judge from calm water surface)
    • #1 Under Water Recovery at finish. #2 UWR , alt kick in swim, UWR at finish.

     

    BACKSTROKE

    • Missed wall on turn
    • Missed wall?, toes touch?-benefit goes to swimmer, but left wall past vertical toward breast
    • Standing and adjusting goggles is legal in the middle of the turn- touched while still on back, adjusted goggles and then left wall on back. Can turn in "any manner desired" (including standing on bottom) once a legal touch is made. -Rules Interpretation guidelines

     

    IM BACK TO BREAST TRANSITION

    • Possible past vertical but hard to tell from that position- no call
    • Past vertical toward breast at touch
    • Flip turn at back finish- illegal
    • Past vertical at touch (don't have to touch with hands on backstroke, but he
      was past vertical before touched with feet and flip turn not allowed at back finish.)

     

    FINAL POINTS

    • Water distorts view, things aren't always as they appear
    • Be in position- breaststroke touch, probably non-simultaneous left first,
      but standing back from the edge, you can't see when the left hand actually
      touches
    • Benefit of doubt- swimmer may be past vertical but hard to tell at that angle.
      Swimmer gets benefit of doubt.
    • See enough of the stroke to make a call. If you catch the tail end of
      something, you may "think" the swimmer did something illegal but if you
      didn't actually see the illegal action, there's no call.