Who do you trust for help?

Former Member
Former Member
I'm absolutely amazed at the amount of misinformation on swimming, especially on the internet. One website I saw instructing the specifics of the backstroke advocated a completely illegal turn. A bodybuilder site said that depleting your stores of Glycogen by starving your body of it actually helped the body move faster. I'm not buying that. You can't swim without it. Other sites like USA Swimming, have a lot of kids with a lot of questions who for some reason don't ask their coaches or parents. Lots of ear infection questions - which are fairly preventable by wearing a swim cap. Early on in my learning I suffered a severe injury by practicing a drill recommended by one of the so-called experts in swimming technique, who shall remain nameless. That's led me to pay closer attention to sports medicine specialists and surgeons who swim. Everybody's body is different and has specific limitations. For example, the Neer Test for your shoulders. The entire approach to pitch, catch, pull, etc... is highly individual. I trust top athletic coaches and top swimmers and doctors. One site on backstroke listed something very technical which actually made sense and works wonders but after running a search a dozen ways through Google I found no one knew of it or spoke of it other than that 1 site! Who do you trust? What are your thoughts on this?
Parents
  • Former Member
    Former Member
    Originally posted by Conniekat8 What makes you think I have no personal experience with TI? What I said you have no personal experience with is TI training. No TI training - whether it is a weekend workshop, a camp, or private coaching by a TI-certified coach - ever has "20+ people per instructor," and if you had ever attended any, you would have known that. What made your statement particularly irksome is that what you falsely claimed about TI training unfortunately is the norm for some non-TI training. Your clinics may have no more than 6 swimmers per instructor, but that has not been true of most of the non-TI clinics I've attended. Bob
Reply
  • Former Member
    Former Member
    Originally posted by Conniekat8 What makes you think I have no personal experience with TI? What I said you have no personal experience with is TI training. No TI training - whether it is a weekend workshop, a camp, or private coaching by a TI-certified coach - ever has "20+ people per instructor," and if you had ever attended any, you would have known that. What made your statement particularly irksome is that what you falsely claimed about TI training unfortunately is the norm for some non-TI training. Your clinics may have no more than 6 swimmers per instructor, but that has not been true of most of the non-TI clinics I've attended. Bob
Children
No Data