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
Just to let you know that Swimdownhill is a term that Matt Man told me about in 1952. It was not a term invented recently or by Terry.
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.
I said I have been swimming like that and I could only train about 800 yards a day and could stay with any swimmers of that time. They were swimming 5000 to 7000 yards a day and some 10000. I was faster for the 100 when I was 37 years old than when I was 20(in 1952) as I was able to swim more distance.
Hey Ion after my knee is healed meet at the pool and I will show you how to swim a 100.
Swim Smarter looks like an all TI club.
Originally posted by geochuck
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I was faster for the 100 when I was 37 years old than when I was 20(in 1952) as I was able to swim more distance.
I know.
I read your saga and involvement in open water races in the U.K. forum.
But it is a changing world.
You are satisfied to compete against people from your era.
The key is to learn from the people of this era.
They will grow my age and beyond, into your age, redifine aging and eventually explode the records in your age group.
Better to learn from them now.
Looks and acts like Total Immersion.
More power to me, who is exposed to a variety of methods and selects the cream from many.
I train for lifetime bests.
I will never reach my life time bests again but it looks like you will set some unbeatable times,. How soon will it be that you set the new world record or surpass my slow times.
You insist to compare with me?
Be careful what you ask for.
I know more about you -from reading the U.K. forum for example- than I let know here so far.
And I am game.
