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
Anyone else notice a very sneaky trick Ion pulled? Over-generalizing is an easy mistake to make, but that doesn't mean we should agree with it. That is one of the reasons I find it very frustrating to try to have a debate with him.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
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.
That certainly makes it sound like "TI-style" swimming was part of the general swimming population back in 1952. But if you read what he did say
Originally posted by geochuck
I am not a fan of TI I am a swimmer who swam the way I do for years, TI is the way I have been swimming since 1952. Not arriving there by Terry's drills but getting there naturally.
So we have a *single* swimmer saying he has been doing "Geochuck"-style swimming since 1952. And since he is an "elite" swimmer, I'd guess that not everyone was doing what he was doing. (Ion also fails to say what people were doing in 1952 that is different than today, unless he is implying that TI and Geochuck-styles of swimming are not done today.)
Anyone else notice a very sneaky trick Ion pulled? Over-generalizing is an easy mistake to make, but that doesn't mean we should agree with it. That is one of the reasons I find it very frustrating to try to have a debate with him.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
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.
That certainly makes it sound like "TI-style" swimming was part of the general swimming population back in 1952. But if you read what he did say
Originally posted by geochuck
I am not a fan of TI I am a swimmer who swam the way I do for years, TI is the way I have been swimming since 1952. Not arriving there by Terry's drills but getting there naturally.
So we have a *single* swimmer saying he has been doing "Geochuck"-style swimming since 1952. And since he is an "elite" swimmer, I'd guess that not everyone was doing what he was doing. (Ion also fails to say what people were doing in 1952 that is different than today, unless he is implying that TI and Geochuck-styles of swimming are not done today.)
