What do you think of total immersion?

I just took a trip to Mexico over the Christmas holidays and had a total blast.....If you can, try and make it to the town of tequila in Jalisco (near Guadalahara).....There are about 25 tequila factories in the surrounding areas around the town of tequila....each with thier own Agave plantations....Most of them give relatively cheap tours in which you can sample all the tequila you want while on tour....I highly reccomend the Herradura tour as well as the Jose Cuervo tour.....You can try samples of some of the better 100% Agave aged tequila's as well (not just the 51% Agave unaged tequila most of us are used to in the States).....The Herradura Anejo is a very good tequila that you can buy relatively cheap there in the town of tequila and take back with you. The Herradura Supremo is perhaps the best tequila you can buy down there....but even in Mexico it will run you about $185 for a fifth!....I call it "El Aqua Del Diablo".....Anyone know what that means in English?...(besides Alex that is who lives in Mexico City). Newmastersswimmer

I usually go to Boca De Iguana also in Jalisco. I have great friends in Guadalahara they have asked me to go there and do my swim school there which I am going to more than likely do. We are probably going to put in 2 Infinite pools (one indoors one out doors) there and teach all ages there. The location has been selected. I have been using an Aqua Spa here in Vancouver but prefer the Infinite Pool. http://www.infinitepool.com/ I drink very little but will certainly take your advice on the Tequilla. I believe it translates something like the water of the devil.

Water of the Devil. While at a bachelor party in Cabo a friend of mine was reffered to as blanco diablo by a...well, a dancer... when he refused to pay for/receive a lap dance, citing that she was overpriced and that he was mostly there to examine the dancers minds and not their bodies. Good times.

My $ (Cruise, that symbol is for American dollar, a currency with value) is squarely on George.

Perhaps we can get George and Ion to attend the USMS Nationals in Coral Springs and we can all watch them swim. They could do the different events on different days. In fact they could do it at the warm up pool by the bar area where they will be serving beer. I believe that is what Mark Gill said they were going to do during the meet. Just think, after a hard day of swimming all of USMS could be entertained by these races. Kinda of like going to the race track and betting on your favorite. We would have Geek, Gull, Goodsmith, Evil Pablo Smith, Wookiee, Sam Perry, Newmasterswimmer, Kirk Nelson, scyfreestyler, and everyone else who wants to be in on the action. If one person seems to be the favorite, we could have someone generate odds on the outcome. All of this as a result of what we think of total immersion.

Hi Matt: Are you sure about that 200 Free time in the low 2 minutes or like 1:57/58 range? Because just recently, I recall that Ion said he was somewhere in the 2:07 to 2:09 range. I honestly can't recall which website it was on because he responds to 3 or 4 swimming websites. It could have been here. If you are correct in your assessment, than George has his work cut out for him and we all here should take some notice to this improvement. In fact, I believe he would be getting close to Geek and Gull times and therefore I would suggest that either one of those two take George's spot in Coral Springs since he won't be ready for his race with Ion.

Originally posted by totalswimm I won't be drinking beer at the meet -- I restrict myself to a once-weekly glass of red wine A further *** in the TI armor, low alcohol consumption.

I was just playing around, Terry, relax. Congrats on the weight loss.

Frank/Skip You forgot.....we switched the event to an intertube water polo tourney! Not quite sure how we can apply TI to this, and I'm a bit concerned with the lack of alcohol consumption on Terry's part :) but we'll pull it together somehow! By the way.....Terry I'm glad to see you posting here in bizarro world. Regardless of where people stand on TI the bottom line is it has hit a niche with a group of people who for whatever reason did not find the same improvement thru tradtional programs. USMS can take a lesson in your marketing and what you've done to get more people passionate about our sport. It's all good!

Originally posted by newmastersswimmer Here is what the USMS website has recorded for Ion's times: www.crgwebservices.com/.../db-show.cgi I don't see anywhere in here where Ion ever came anywhere close to a 2:00 200 scy freestyle......I think somewhere around 2:05 - 2:10 would be the best possible scenerio based on the data stored in the USMS database (which has fairly recent results on Ion BTW). Newmastersswimmer p.s. Geek and Gull would smash Ion like an electric guitar in any freestyle event.....What a popular cliche the guitar smashing metaphor has become thanks to you know who Jr.....LOL!! Yes we all know who coined that phase back in 2000 and it worked against us in that relay. I was watching that race a couple of weeks ago and when Australia won they were mimicking the strumming of the guitars for everyone to see on TV. In fact, Michael Klim reminded me of Joe Satriani because he was jamming in front of the TV cameras rubbing in the insult.