Ways to get DQ’ed

Freestyle

• Stop and walk or pull on the lane rope
• Miss the wall on a turn

• Flip over onto your stomach during the swim
• Flip over onto your stomach during a turn and touch the wall with your hand while on your stomach
• Push off the wall after a turn on your stomach
• Miss a wall during a turn
• If doing a backstroke flip turn, take more than one stroke on your stomach during the turn
• Pull on the lane ropes

• Any kick other than breaststroke kick (flutter, fly, scissor)
• Non-simultaneous arms (both arms must come forward, together)
• Underwater recovery (can’t do an extra half-stroke under the chest)
• Hands past hips (hands can’t come past your hips during any stroke other than the pull-out)
• One-hand touch
• Head not breaking the surface every stroke (basically you have to breathe every time!)
• Turn (no flip turns; must do a 2-hand touch and when turning, be on your stomach)

• Any kick other than fly kick (scissor, breaststroke, flutter)
• Non-simultaneous arms (both arms must come forward, together)
• Underwater recovery (can’t do an extra half-stroke under the chest)
• One-hand touch
• Turn (no flip turns; must do a 2-hand touch and when turning, be on your stomach)