I've noticed at lot of dicsussion in recent threads about TI principles,
As you can see from my location, I'm on the other side of the atlantic and TI has started to make an impact over here.
I've come across a lot of people in my local University pool who seem to have been mesmerised by the TI message and it is now common for me to see people swimming on their sides with one outstreached arm and a submerged head.
When the time comes to breath these guys have their heads so deep from pressing their bouy that they end up lifting it so high that they loose whatever alignment they had in the first place.
From talking to them, none of them seem to want to develop a proper kick and build up endurance so they can develop
good form.
I have decided to post a list of TI priciples and my own critism of these, feel free to add to the list or post a TI defence!
TI PRINCIPLE 1
Side to Side Rotation
to get into Low Drag Fish-like Position
Criticism
Rotation is good to get extentsion and
a good catch + power into the stroke,
Excessive rotation slows down the stroke.
TI PRINCIPLE 2
Swim DownHill
Press your Bouy
Criticism:
Holding head too deep creates drag
Makes breathing Difficult
TI PRINCIPLE 3
No Kicking
Criticism
Kicking essential to fast swimming
+ to maintain good form particularly
for male swimmers.
TI PRINCIPLE 4
Front Quadrant Swimming/
Distance per stroke,
Criticism
A reasonably high Stroke rate is necessay for
fast swimming,
Unless you have a very strong kick a glide
phase in your stroke will cause decelleration
TI PRINCIPLE 5
Drills will make you a better swimmer
Criticism
Drills are important, but there is no
substitute for good quality fast training.
Mattson Wrote:
"How do you figure? For example, Richard Quick contributed a fair amount to TI. He was a coach for several Olympics, a strong program at Stanford, and worked with many Olympians. I don't see how you can make a bold-faced statement like that, and expect to back it up."
I started working with Terry Laughlin and Total Immersion in 1994, worked with the program until 2001. Richard Quick did not contribute to TI, he worked extensively with Bill Boomer, who Coach Laughlin credits with starting him off on the "vessel shaping" track. What was that about bold faced statements?
I also attended two Stanford swim camps with both Boomer and Quick in attendance, by that time I was a Camp Director, and Senior Instructor for TI.
The Stanford camps were set up and run quite differently from the TI workshops of that time. Granted some of the material was similar, as were some drills. There was also a good amount of difference in the teaching techniques and lecture materials
See Ya
Brian
Mattson Wrote:
"How do you figure? For example, Richard Quick contributed a fair amount to TI. He was a coach for several Olympics, a strong program at Stanford, and worked with many Olympians. I don't see how you can make a bold-faced statement like that, and expect to back it up."
I started working with Terry Laughlin and Total Immersion in 1994, worked with the program until 2001. Richard Quick did not contribute to TI, he worked extensively with Bill Boomer, who Coach Laughlin credits with starting him off on the "vessel shaping" track. What was that about bold faced statements?
I also attended two Stanford swim camps with both Boomer and Quick in attendance, by that time I was a Camp Director, and Senior Instructor for TI.
The Stanford camps were set up and run quite differently from the TI workshops of that time. Granted some of the material was similar, as were some drills. There was also a good amount of difference in the teaching techniques and lecture materials
See Ya
Brian
