7th Coupe de Dauphin

[osusim]

At the moment not possible to install a pressure measuring devise at every inch of pool's wall. So, showing of the pooling to judges is the same as showing BO to judges. Nobody will ask was it real or a coincidence simulation.

There is a dilemma - should I gain extra 0.5 m by horizontal movement with high risk of penalty or make secure SP but a bit shorter.

Sanne, success with you real target - 110m DNF.

[AltSaint]

Tim, I know this is a bit late as I'll be seeing you at the pool in about an hour....but well done anyway. Same goes for Anna VB - good tactics as well.

[Sanne Buurma]

Originally Posted by Kimmo

Hi,

Sorry my stupid question: what have we done so far to change this rule to work better for us? Although I have not seen the becoming rules but the rules can be changed if we want to and if we are willing to work for it. And I know it

I think that ain't such a stupid question. I also think the penalty way out of proportion.

[Kars]

Indeed Sanne you touch upon one important aspect of rules, the penalties. They seem often much out of proportion.

On the other side the amount of regulation and it's expansion has grown over the years. Improvements have been made, granted, but with these exemples I often feel that things have drifted to far away from the basics.

Freediving is in my opion a not an exercise in style, but rather a basic quest for depth distance and time.

I know Stig is activly working on this subject as wel. He would love to have very simple rules. A while ago he made this paper with his alternative rules: http://members.home.nl/kars/AIDA-Reg...ons-Stig07.doc

Love, Courage and water,

Kars

[Haydn]

What a stupid rule. If the judges can see you have infringed it, they can also see how much distance you have gained. Why cant they just knock off the metre you pulled? It seems that if youy are swimming alongside a wall to your left, you will naturally reach it with your left hand and then pull your body around your hand before your right shoulder can reach the wall. Of course you gain 2 or 3 feet, just the width of your shoulders etc.
I guess the pulling rule also works from under the water when you reach vertically for the wall or trough and pull your head up, rather than swim up the last 2 feet.

Any distance gained is too minimal. Not only is in undeserving of such a rediculous penalty, it is also undeserving of forcing such a protocol upon the competitor. It also penalises the competitor who swims against the wall unfairly compared to the one in the middle of the pool. Although, to balance this, the swimmer without the wall, has a much harder job to find the rope to rest on, while doing his protocols.

Surely the rule should be dispensed with simply by marking the point which the hand or airway surfaces first, whichever is the shorter. This lets the athlete concentrate on breathing before worrying about protocols. Rather than worrying about protocols, then breathing, then more protocols.

The Dolphin comp was the best comp I ever attended (some years ago). Was this comp under Aida rules this time? When I attended it wasnt.

Cant wait to get involved again.