Bernard 50m free underwater 0.25 speed

Bernard and Nystrand, 2008 Euro Champs 50 free

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Bernard
• Nystrand

[KaleeCali]

@elinfiernoentusojos in my 15 years as a swimmer, the first two years, yes free style was anything you wanted but for a weird reason it changed. Front craw is now free style. You can kick how you want, bending the knees will make you go slower but it's allowed, just as long as you're kicking. if you're not, you're DQd. I haven't done a triathlon and I know little about it, so free style could be completely different than it is in swimming, it could have different rules to it.

[elinfiernoentusojos]

@KaleeCali but a reason just for someone dumb to lose the race lol. As I said first, im just an average swimmer not a pro, and just last friday I did 3km of front crawl in 1 hour for the first time.. :)., as i want to join triathlon, since you are not misunderstanding front crawl with freestyle, and maybe im not well informed, could you please allow me to see where are the rules of competitive freestyle so i can be enlightened... Thanks!

[elinfiernoentusojos]

@KaleeCali hi!, I do swim but not in competition.. maybe i'm not understanding well, i think freestyle means you can swim the way you want and the only rule is not to be underwater more than 15m and not pushing yourself from the bottom of the pool, as the fastest way to swim is the front crawl is the style many swimmers choose and is often confused as freestyle is not actually a technique, why would you do a butterfly kick if is not as fast as a crawl kick, that should be no reason for being DQ

[KaleeCali]

@elinfiernoentusojos You obviously don't swim. If you did whatever you want you would get DQd for it dumbass.

[elinfiernoentusojos]

@elinfiernoentusojos however oops

[elinfiernoentusojos]

@KaleeCali First, freestyle means that you can swim whatever the fuck you want.. :)

[KaleeCali]

@appalloisis No, freestyle kick is when you do a walking motion with your legs, you can bed your knees as much as you want, but bending them like he did makes you slower. If he where to be kicking them at the same time, he would be DQd

[MickChickenn]

@appalloisis I dont see it. They are all doing flutter kick. Also, yes, you could be DQ'd for that. You can do any stroke you want, but it must stay the same throughout the entire race.

[mslol360]

it's too slow

[TheSwimmingworld]

@appalloisis no, it's called freestyle for a reason ;)