What do you think of total immersion?

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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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    I read a lot (Swimming Fastest, Swim Coaching Bible, Championship Swim Training, among others). I talk to coaches and other swimmers. And I know what does and doesn't work for me. Admittedly I do not have any top ten times. But I have seen my times improve over the past year to the extent that I am swimming faster at 48 than I was at 46. When I joined USMS three years ago, like others I wanted to believe that I could swim fast by swimming "smarter." In other words, I wouldn't have to train with the same intensity as I did twenty five years ago, instead relying on technique. I experimented with TI, lower yardage workouts, etc. What I discovered is that there aren't any shortcuts. In the past six months I lowered my 500 time by 11 seconds, my 200 by 5 seconds, both NQTs. How did this happen? I credit my training partner and my coach. We train with a lot of intensity, primarily En2 and En3, negative splitting, descending, especially 200s. It is not painless, nor is it effortless. But it is not mindless--we focus on technique at race pace, not just drill pace. That is what I base my opinion on.
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    I read a lot (Swimming Fastest, Swim Coaching Bible, Championship Swim Training, among others). I talk to coaches and other swimmers. And I know what does and doesn't work for me. Admittedly I do not have any top ten times. But I have seen my times improve over the past year to the extent that I am swimming faster at 48 than I was at 46. When I joined USMS three years ago, like others I wanted to believe that I could swim fast by swimming "smarter." In other words, I wouldn't have to train with the same intensity as I did twenty five years ago, instead relying on technique. I experimented with TI, lower yardage workouts, etc. What I discovered is that there aren't any shortcuts. In the past six months I lowered my 500 time by 11 seconds, my 200 by 5 seconds, both NQTs. How did this happen? I credit my training partner and my coach. We train with a lot of intensity, primarily En2 and En3, negative splitting, descending, especially 200s. It is not painless, nor is it effortless. But it is not mindless--we focus on technique at race pace, not just drill pace. That is what I base my opinion on.
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