Well, I know some of you are big fans of Ti appoach. I would like to read more on it. The library will not vcover the books that deal with backstroke, or breaststroke or butterfly, so I read some articles from time to time on it. Matt S use it for a summer team for kids and uses it himself and others might use some of it.
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Cynthius Maximus (or is the female Maxima? Or is that the plural? You can only fake so much latin...)
I'd be happy to chat with you about TI. I am not clear what your question is. If you are looking for a specific book that covers all 4 strokes, you want Swimming Made Easy. (A real deal at $20.) If you are looking for some articles on the internet, I can point you to some good stuff from Emmett Hines on this site or his club's (www.h2oustonswims.org).
Quo Vadis?
Matt
;) SORRY! NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I'VE READ A LOT ABOUT "TI" AND THINK IT IS GREAT FOR TEACHING THE BEST BODY POSITION FOR THE STROKES! I ESPECIALLY LIKE "THE LONGER YOUR BOAT IS, THE FASTER YOU'LL GO" RULE. I USE THAT A LOT WHEN I COACH MY SWIMMERS.
TI===total immersion. A school of swimming instruction that is taught by (?).
Look up "TOTAL IMMERSION" on the search function on this site. Also--I believe there is a website run by the founders of this swimming school.
Well, it is Cynthia Maxima in the feminine from. And from the dictonary Cynthia was another name for Atremis/Diana and was Greek. A lot of Latin names that were from the Greek are similar. Greek, I even know less about. Quo Vadis was a great book. I finally read it and it was well reserached. Most people remember the movie from the early 1950's. So, you think its best to get the book on Ti that talks about the whole process.
Jerrycat-
I swim TI style and am very pleased with it. The only shoulder pain I have is due to arthritis in the AC joint from falling on my XC skis over the years. The one thing I do think is important is to not make stroke length the be-all and end-all of your stroke as it gets to the point where it is similar to riding a bicycle in too high a gear. ANYTHING can be overdone. I do think that it does have a small negative impact on my top-end speed, as poor as it is, but for longer open water races it has been very good to me.
Of note is that I have no kick at all and can still swim front quadrant style and do reasonably well, at least for me.
Love that TI.
-LBJ
with ti, at first it helped me be more moyant in the water...but after suffering shoulder pain from the stroke (and the inability to swim fast), I gave it all up, but do swim front quadrant.
has anyone else had this experience?
:) Jerrycat
Doesn't it stand to reason that if one subscribes to the TI notion that in freestyle the head should always be in a relaxed position, pivoting with the body but never lifted, that it also should not be craned (lifted) forward?
If you are not looking more or less straight down, your head has to be lifted in order to look forward. This places a strain on the neck and shoulder muscles. It would be like walking down the street with your eyes permanently focused on the second story windows.
Well, one swimmer at the top of her game is Suzanne Heim-Bowen who came from the open swim background. She does high yardage for her age(45) years old and swam an 800 meter freestyle in the same time almost as Debbie Meyer did in the 1968 olympics. Her coaches state that she missed out on developing some of the proper swim technique as a youngster and needs to work on this. But as some have stated before if you can do the cardivasular training and not get injured like Bowen did you might have a chanced at having almost every freestyle record in your age group. Granted she also have a lot of talent. As stated before swimming technique is important but so is the ability to be able to do a lot of swimming and not become injured.
