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[quote=Anonymous][quote]1. turning over (e.g. past vertical) before touching the wall would be a dq- but standing up would not be, unless he pushed off the bottom. It would also be pretty unusual, to stand up on an IM. 
2. How do you know S&T missed it? 
3. It's actually much harder then it looks- when three kids are coming at you all at the same time, and you want to observe each of their turns. 
4. If you think your S&T judges are crummy, and you can do better- by all means volunteer and get certified as an S&T judge. At least at our pool, and I think this is pretty common- we are constantly begging for more S&T judges to get certified.[/quote]

S&T is a volunteer job, people

I will freely admit that I am lean strongly toward "benefit of the doubt to the swimmer" particularly in the younger ones.

To those who think the S&T official was blind, incompetent, etc: How certain are you that no part of the arms was at (or above) the surface of the water in butterfly?  While watching 3 swimmers simultaneously and giving each of the 3 equal attention?  Often the little guys are just barely barely keeping arms at the surface level when recovering.  S&T is looking at this from the end of the pool.

If I am 100% certain that I've seen an illegal stroke, I call it, even for a 6YO.  But I need to be absolutely sure.

Also, I wish that all pools would post the reason for the DQ with the results.  That information is communicated to the coaches, and they are supposed to communicate it to the swimmers, but this doesn't always happen.

My own kids have been subject to "suspect" S&T calls - including one pool that is so disorganized in their B meets with umpteen heats that I'm virtually certain that they mixed up the lane on the DQ card (this when my 7 yr old thought she'd come in first - they actually posted the result with no DQ and then amended it later when they caught up with the DQ cards).  Another time my kid was literally DQd for "hesitation at the start" (?!).   We just let these things go.  This is not the Olympics.  You go do the 2 hour certification course in the outer reaches of MoCo and stand in the heat for hours on Wed. nights, and then we'll listen to your complaints ;). [/quote]

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