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
Former Member
It is documented in that link.
geochuk says I post no technical data.
But he misses an ocean of data:
.) study first;
.) write afterwards.
Like me.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
It advised adult swimmers to learn Total Immersion and stay away from Masters swimming.
At the TI clinic I took, I was encouraged to join Masters.
Indygal is correct. TI has never discouraged any from joining a master's team.
What people are told at workshops to step away from a masters team for a bit to concentrate on developing the skills they spent the weekend learning.
The concern for newer swimmers or swimmers that struggle, is that after a workshop, if they go right back to their teams, they will fall back into their old habits and wasted their weekend and money.
After they have spent sometime away, learning the drill progession and convert over to swimming, then they are encouraged to go back and swim with their teams.
Originally posted by mattson
Gull, I wasn't being rhetorical or condescending.
Sorry, but that's how it came across to me. Look, there are scores of successful coaches who don't package and market their methods (not that there's anything wrong with that). As for reference books, I like Maglischo's Swimming Fastest, among others. But it's a lot bigger than the TI publications, so you can't read it cover to cover in an afternoon or slip it into your swim bag.
OK, now I'm confused. I thought both George & Ion were anti-TI. When did you two start disagreeing? :)
Let's talk about something really fun like looking for Johnny Weir's aura? Apparently it is on a bus somewhere in Italy.
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.
