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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems hard to DQ for backstroke, no? Which is where OP is coming from[/quote]

No / you can’t be vertical towards breast & a lot of the young kids flip over at the end before touching [/quote]

Eh, if it's only 25m then no flipping required and if kid just stays on his back until he passes under the flags and feels the wall, then it's fairly "easy" to avoid DQ.[/quote]

The PP was saying a lot of kids can't actually stay on their back until they get to the wall, even in a 25.  All of this stems from delusional parents thinking their kid who can't really even swim yet has **potential** in one stroke.  Focusing solely on that stroke early on **might** get them into a A meet, but it would also thwart their overall development.  If you want your kids to be swimmers or anything else for that matter, focus on the big picture, long-term development, not the next A-meet.[/quote]
Eh, I just timed time trials last weekend and about half of our 8&U flipped onto their stomachs and DQd in backstroke.  Nearly all of those kids are fully capable of staying on their backs and can do the stroke, they just didn't when under pressure and unsure of what to do with folks cheering.  They're still little.  Many just forgot or were afraid of hitting their heads.  I'm sure that number will drop dramatically as the summer goes along and kids get more practice.  The coach had them swim the stroke because they can. [b] Learning how to stay legal from beginning to end of a race is the next step after learning the stroke itself.[/b][/quote]

And this is why race conditions are so important.  What a kid does in practice is not always what they do in a race.  Some kids fall apart in a race and other rise to the occasion.[/quote]

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