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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I learned technique just 2 years ago, through a combination of: an age group coach, Richard Quick/Skip Kinney tapes, and the TI method (book and tapes). What I found is that I had to identify and implement what worked for me from each of those sources.
Having said that, I will admit to being a staunch advocate of the TI methods. I went through a period of having shoulder pain, and I swim mainly backstroke and freestyle. Someone suggested that I may be overpulling and using my shoulders to rotate. So, I went back to the balance drills and really focused on shifting my weight using my hips and rib cage *together* in both free and back, and wow, what a difference that made. I can honestly say that having fixed that one element in my technique has made a big improvement, not only in the shoulder pain, but in the strokes, overall. (I should also add the caveat that I have not yet figured out how to translate that to a faster speed since I completely fuddle the races I enter.)
Cheers!
I learned technique just 2 years ago, through a combination of: an age group coach, Richard Quick/Skip Kinney tapes, and the TI method (book and tapes). What I found is that I had to identify and implement what worked for me from each of those sources.
Having said that, I will admit to being a staunch advocate of the TI methods. I went through a period of having shoulder pain, and I swim mainly backstroke and freestyle. Someone suggested that I may be overpulling and using my shoulders to rotate. So, I went back to the balance drills and really focused on shifting my weight using my hips and rib cage *together* in both free and back, and wow, what a difference that made. I can honestly say that having fixed that one element in my technique has made a big improvement, not only in the shoulder pain, but in the strokes, overall. (I should also add the caveat that I have not yet figured out how to translate that to a faster speed since I completely fuddle the races I enter.)
Cheers!
