Why is it illegal to fix your goggles during the breaststroke?

Because each stroke has its own standards, and if you break form, then you are not swimming that stroke. Some strokes are much more efficient than others, and it wouldn't be fair to compare swimmers doing completely different strokes.





Breastroke in particular is a very inefficient stroke (that is, it takes more effort to produce the same distance and speed you'd get from many other strokes), so if you allowed people to break form to fix their goggles, you would have people "fixing their goggles" the whole length of the pool as an excuse to sneak in more efficient strokes.





In fact, the only events that allow you to use any form you want are the "freestyle" events. Technically, you could swim breast (or any other stroke) in a freestyle event, but you would really be handicapping yourself. It has long been standard for freestyle swimmers to use the most efficient stroke so far invented, the Australian front crawl.|||ginger ninja- they mean during a meet, you get disqualified for fixing your goggles





I guess its because you break your stroke. no matter how much losing your goggles sucks, you just have to deal with it :/|||It's illegal because your arms neeed to stay in the same rythm/ motion. If you move your arms in any other way, the officials think you're trying to do some other pull.|||Um, who told you that? Of course it's not illegal! I don't you would go for prison just for adjusting your goggles, I mean think about it.|||its illegal because thats just the rule. its like cheeting. if you dont touch the wall with both hands its illegal and if you pull too much under your body it is illegal.