I just got Total immersion book yesterday.
Have read part 1 of the book and just started doing the drills today.
It seems an excallent way to swim and definatly will improve my f/s.
But i'm a bit weary because it's so comercail. so my question is,
Is Total immersion as good a way to swim as it makes out?
or is it the best way to learn how to swim?
Are there better books out there that teach you how to swim well(properly)?
Hope that makes sense
Swifty
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Originally posted by gull80
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For the record, I am not "anti-TI,"...
Me, I am anti-Total Immersion.
The thread I linked explains why I am displeased with it:
from the information available in the public domain, Total Immersion is dishonest and a cult.
When geochuck says that swimmers were swimming like described in Total Immersion since 1952, well they don't swim like in 1952 now in 2006.
Very different.
The rotary style in freestyle for example, didn't exist and is in vogue now.
Swimmers like Felipe Magnini (Italy) and Brent Hayden (Canada) are even not freaks of the nature, at 185 centimeters (close to 6'1") and 72 kilograms (about 158 pounds), but they are holding world Olympic rankings in 50 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters freestyle.
And their yardage -that is deemed in this thread as meaningless by people who cannot race beyond 50, and even in their race of 50 these people need to learn much more how to improve- is the key of success.
Originally posted by gull80
...
For the record, I am not "anti-TI,"...
Me, I am anti-Total Immersion.
The thread I linked explains why I am displeased with it:
from the information available in the public domain, Total Immersion is dishonest and a cult.
When geochuck says that swimmers were swimming like described in Total Immersion since 1952, well they don't swim like in 1952 now in 2006.
Very different.
The rotary style in freestyle for example, didn't exist and is in vogue now.
Swimmers like Felipe Magnini (Italy) and Brent Hayden (Canada) are even not freaks of the nature, at 185 centimeters (close to 6'1") and 72 kilograms (about 158 pounds), but they are holding world Olympic rankings in 50 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters freestyle.
And their yardage -that is deemed in this thread as meaningless by people who cannot race beyond 50, and even in their race of 50 these people need to learn much more how to improve- is the key of success.
