How to Get Disqualified Swimming Butterfly

The butterfly is probably the hardest stroke to perfect. It requires strength and stamina to properly perform the butterfly pull and kick. Because the stroke is complex, getting disqualified during swimming competitions is not difficult to do. The following are a few common ways that swimmers get into trouble while swimming butterfly.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Swim underwater for more than 15 meters. You can do as many dolphin kicks as you want off the start, but you must emerge from the water by the 15-meter mark in order to avoid disqualification.

2. Alternate your arms or bring them out of the water non-simultaneously. The butterfly stroke requires you to simultaneously bring both arms up and out of the water, and then re-submerge them out in front of your head at the same time.

3. Keep your arms underwater during the stroke recovery. The recovery part of the pull is when you bring your arms forward in front of your head. This must be accomplished by bringing your arms up and out of the water, not by pushing your arms forward underwater.

4. Use a flutter or breaststroke kick. The only kick permitted in butterfly is the dolphin kick, which is performed by moving your feet up and down and keeping both feet together at all times.

5. Turn over on your back. Always swim butterfly on your stomach. Turn your shoulders during turns so that you push off the wall with your chest facing the bottom of the pool.

6. Touch the wall with 1 hand during a turn or finish. 2-hand touches are required for all turns during a butterfly event. You must also touch with 2 hands to finish the event.

Tips & Warnings

• Your hands do not have to evenly touch the wall during turns and finishes, they just need to touch at the same time.

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[polohgirl]

on 4/13/2009 Oh yeah, if you stop and get out of the pool before you have finished your event then you are disqualified.