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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Matt -
You are probably right about me not being a sprinter. Since I didn't really learn how to swim until I was into my 40's I probably don't have any "trained" fast twitch muscles in my body. I get a lot of compliments on how "pretty" my strokes are, but once I switch into race mode, all that goes down the tube....I have been unable to translate TI swimming into fast swimming...hence, I "fuddle" the race by rushing the strokes, and fail to reap the benefits of staying balanced, long and lean. On the other hand, my definition of "distance" events are the 100 and 200 :cool: Have never swum anything longer, nor any "open water" swims.
Also, I have read Emmit Hines' book twice. The best instruction I took away from it was about turns....valuable information broken down into an easy-to-understand, step-by-step process.
I'm not throwing in the towel yet. In fact I'm glad to be living, now, in an area where there are greater opportunities to swim with masters instead of being greatly humbled swimming against teenagers at age-group meets.
Cheers!
Matt -
You are probably right about me not being a sprinter. Since I didn't really learn how to swim until I was into my 40's I probably don't have any "trained" fast twitch muscles in my body. I get a lot of compliments on how "pretty" my strokes are, but once I switch into race mode, all that goes down the tube....I have been unable to translate TI swimming into fast swimming...hence, I "fuddle" the race by rushing the strokes, and fail to reap the benefits of staying balanced, long and lean. On the other hand, my definition of "distance" events are the 100 and 200 :cool: Have never swum anything longer, nor any "open water" swims.
Also, I have read Emmit Hines' book twice. The best instruction I took away from it was about turns....valuable information broken down into an easy-to-understand, step-by-step process.
I'm not throwing in the towel yet. In fact I'm glad to be living, now, in an area where there are greater opportunities to swim with masters instead of being greatly humbled swimming against teenagers at age-group meets.
Cheers!
