Total Immersion origins/theory

I am with you there, I *NEED* to know the background behind something before I go out and do it. As you have probably seen, one good thing about the Total Immersion people is they they have put together a comprehensive program to get you swimming all four strokes. And they back it up with some logic. People will say that their approach is not the best approach, however it is the one resource that I know if that will allow you to sit down with only a basic 6 year old redcross lessons 25 years ago swimming skill and show you in a solid manner how to swim all four strokes. You're not done at that point, but they do a explain a way to get it done. But once past that, being an engineer myself here are my favorite technical resources for swimming. 1. Swimming Fastest - huge book and the first few chapters detailing the strokes and propulsion are excellent 2. Coachesinfo.com - the swimmingsection is edited by Ross Sanders and it is full of nice information 3. Proceedings of the International Society for Biomechanics in Sports w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa. You will find there is very little actual data on what aspects of swimming technique are better than others. What little there is, you can get oriented to through these presentations. 3. www.svl.ch Check the tips in english section. 4. www.h2oustonswims.org Coach Hines has written a fair bit and lays it out pretty well. He is also the author of fitness swimming. 5. acadianendurance.blogspot.com - Well it's my own site but the 4 articles about the lactate metabolism and the types of swim sets that we use to work on the different aspects is pretty good I think :-) Thanks. I'll explore this over the weekend.

I am with you there, I *NEED* to know the background behind something before I go out and do it. As you have probably seen, one good thing about the Total Immersion people is they they have put together a comprehensive program to get you swimming all four strokes. And they back it up with some logic. People will say that their approach is not the best approach, however it is the one resource that I know if that will allow you to sit down with only a basic 6 year old redcross lessons 25 years ago swimming skill and show you in a solid manner how to swim all four strokes. You're not done at that point, but they do a explain a way to get it done. But once past that, being an engineer myself here are my favorite technical resources for swimming. 1. Swimming Fastest - huge book and the first few chapters detailing the strokes and propulsion are excellent 2. Coachesinfo.com - the swimmingsection is edited by Ross Sanders and it is full of nice information 3. Proceedings of the International Society for Biomechanics in Sports w4.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa. You will find there is very little actual data on what aspects of swimming technique are better than others. What little there is, you can get oriented to through these presentations. 3. www.svl.ch Check the tips in english section. 4. www.h2oustonswims.org Coach Hines has written a fair bit and lays it out pretty well. He is also the author of fitness swimming. 5. acadianendurance.blogspot.com - Well it's my own site but the 4 articles about the lactate metabolism and the types of swim sets that we use to work on the different aspects is pretty good I think :-) Thanks. I'll explore this over the weekend.