Here's what I love about smooth swim. You get to see great swimmers in action and they're showing everything from streamlining to propulsion. I went to Washington D.C. watching one of their great videos. If you get kids to see it, film them, and then let them watch great swimmers doing it, they begin to put two and two together. Super idea and indeed different than TI but with the TI streamlining tied in, best of both worlds. Coach T.
Those were great links and comments. Many of them addressed topics we've been debating here like SPL vs. SR and the balance of hard work vs technique. I guess the tritalk forum is where Solar spends a lot of time hanging out intead of always playing with us. Hi Solar! :wave:
Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy New Year and thankyou for your continued support.
We've just added a new look to the Swim Smooth website which may be of use to some of you, especially the newly added free weekly training program at: www.swimsmooth.com/thisweek.htm
We also have an archive of free articles at: www.swimsmooth.com/freearticles.htm
Happy swimming and best of luck for 2007!
Paul
Swim Smooth
Solar do you have your Tri forum up and running as yet???
I see you do here it is www.triforum.ca/viewtopic.php Hey George !
I wouldn't say *yet*. I still have graphics to improve. But it's now indexed in Google, that happened way before expected.
The interview process is going steady but slow. I'm accumulating several months of delay on this side unfortunatelly.
Thanks for inquiring George
I am relatively new to swimming, having taken up the sport after 28 of years of distance running. (I injured a knee in a fall and it was no longer standing up to the pounding.) I swim with a local masters group and have made a fair amount of progress since starting three years ago and have come to appreciate the value of working on all four strokes. I also discovered the joys of open water swimming. In addition to our local open water race in Casco Bay, I did my first Chesapeake Bay swim (the 4.4 miler) last summer. I look forward to doing it again.
As a new swimmer, I have looked for resources to learn as much as possible about stroke technique. A couple of friends who are triathletes recommended TI. I bought a copy of the book when I first started swimming. I have to admit to being a bit turned off by the approach taken by the authors as it seemed a bit heavy on hype. I was also a put off by the concentration on drilling instead of faster swimming and training. (The curse of the runner's mindset!) With a little more experience, I now recognize many of the TI drills in the workouts put together by our coach. I have begun incorporating more drills into my daily workouts as I recognize that my greatest gains will come from honing my technique.
That being said, I have a copy of the Swim Smooth DVD which I find very useful. Many of the drills are similar to TI. I have shared it with a few swimmers from our group and the feedback is positive. I am not sure that it is better than TI as the focus on drills and balance is very similar. I do find the drills to be very useful and I like the focus on training rather than drilling alone.
I have also been exposed to some of the Go Swim videos through our group and find them to be useful as well. In general, I like being able to see the drills and strokes being performed by good swimmers as I find it hard to visualize many of them without a visual reference.
