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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Welcome to Bizarro World, Terry. I think this forum is typical of much internet discourse: prone to hyperbole, much efforting to Get Each Other's Goat and wildly variable attempts at humour. Most of the time it is informative, occasionally moving and yes, downright bizarre, but we like it. I can certainly see how you could be dismayed by some of the assertions re your enterprise have been thrown around and I applaud your early-morning determination to set the record straight.
A close observation of elite swimmers will reveal that whatever they do differently technique-wise, they have much in common as well; however they got there, they all exhibit great efficiency under the water and great minimization of water resistance. The work load that they carried to get there is as variable as the number of swimmers you observe. If Terry's approach allows a beginning, middle or elite swimmer to accomplish an improvement in their efficiency then how can one quarrel? There remains the application of that efficiency to achieving the swimmer's goals through using the workload philosophy that they and/or their coach chooses to apply. I do not believe that there is one Way to maximize efficiency & I don't see Terry claiming that.
Welcome to Bizarro World, Terry. I think this forum is typical of much internet discourse: prone to hyperbole, much efforting to Get Each Other's Goat and wildly variable attempts at humour. Most of the time it is informative, occasionally moving and yes, downright bizarre, but we like it. I can certainly see how you could be dismayed by some of the assertions re your enterprise have been thrown around and I applaud your early-morning determination to set the record straight.
A close observation of elite swimmers will reveal that whatever they do differently technique-wise, they have much in common as well; however they got there, they all exhibit great efficiency under the water and great minimization of water resistance. The work load that they carried to get there is as variable as the number of swimmers you observe. If Terry's approach allows a beginning, middle or elite swimmer to accomplish an improvement in their efficiency then how can one quarrel? There remains the application of that efficiency to achieving the swimmer's goals through using the workload philosophy that they and/or their coach chooses to apply. I do not believe that there is one Way to maximize efficiency & I don't see Terry claiming that.
