Total Immersion origins/theory

...My search isn't as much for the origins of TI as it is for a better understanding of the physics and bio-mechanics of swimming. Being an engineer I usually like to dig deeper into areas of interest to gain a better understanding. Try a search like: www.google.com/search This link may be interesting to you: Analysis of Grant Hackett's and Ian Thorpe's Swimming Technique www.svl.ch/.../ And this one too: Thoughts on the Crawl Stroke - By Marshall Adams www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../200007-01st_art.asp ... which includes: "The fact that Thorpe takes five-tenths of a second to accomplish this movement in a 1.5-second total stroke cycle demonstrates the importance of this positioning movement to the stroke." (Read the rest of that section to "get it".) I'm just using Ian Thorpe as an example, feel free to use any high-profile swimmer in a search. You could spend all day reading articles on the topic of stroke analysis... like: Swimming Stroke Length, Stroke Rate and a Swimmer's Training swimming.about.com/.../swimstrokerate.htm Reading is great, so is asking questions and having discussions with coaches and swimmers... but... Mostly I just try to feel the water. :-)

...My search isn't as much for the origins of TI as it is for a better understanding of the physics and bio-mechanics of swimming. Being an engineer I usually like to dig deeper into areas of interest to gain a better understanding. Try a search like: www.google.com/search This link may be interesting to you: Analysis of Grant Hackett's and Ian Thorpe's Swimming Technique www.svl.ch/.../ And this one too: Thoughts on the Crawl Stroke - By Marshall Adams www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../200007-01st_art.asp ... which includes: "The fact that Thorpe takes five-tenths of a second to accomplish this movement in a 1.5-second total stroke cycle demonstrates the importance of this positioning movement to the stroke." (Read the rest of that section to "get it".) I'm just using Ian Thorpe as an example, feel free to use any high-profile swimmer in a search. You could spend all day reading articles on the topic of stroke analysis... like: Swimming Stroke Length, Stroke Rate and a Swimmer's Training swimming.about.com/.../swimstrokerate.htm Reading is great, so is asking questions and having discussions with coaches and swimmers... but... Mostly I just try to feel the water. :-)