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Swim Pro at Menlo Swim with Team Sheeper
After months of searching, I finally found a new home with Team Sheeper at Menlo Swim. I now coach Total Immersion swimming as a Swim Pro (click on Meet the Pros) at their Belle Haven pool. What happened? I was coaching at another pool but apparently the managers there were way too lax and let…
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What’s the Deal with Kicking in Freestyle Swimming?
There always seems to be some controversy surrounding kicking in Freestyle swimming. In the TI forums, someone posed a query about kicking and here is how I answered it, with some minor edits: Some thoughts about kicking that I’ve discovered: 1. There are those who can kick to propel themselves at speed, and those who…
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Swim Optimization: Beyond Balance, Streamline, and Propulsion
In the current TI method, we like to talk about the 3 stages of teaching progression: Balance, Streamline, and Propulsion. Generally speaking, mastering swimming requires mastering skills in those 3 areas in that order. One should generally have some basic level of mastery before progressing to the next level or else they will have difficulty…
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More Notes on Achieving the Early Vertical Forearm
NOTE: Portions of this post were drawn from my posts in the Total Immersion forums. A while back, I wrote a post about my path to achieving the Early Vertical Forearm or EVF. Over a year now of coaching TI, I thought I’d capture all my EVF thoughts into one place. Pre-requisites for EVF: 1.…
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Tips on Turning a Masters Workout into a Total Immersion Practice
For those of you swimming in Masters workouts and want to continue to incorporate TI learnings and principles, here are some tips: General Tips: 1. Practice maintaining mental focus on each lap, to do whatever it is you are practicing for those lengths or laps. 2. Train your brain to keep active for the entire…
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Total Immersion: Where Should the Hand Leave the Water at the End of a Stroke?
In the Total Immersion forums, a user asked about where should hand leave the water for recovery. I thought it would be useful to repost my response here: Regarding when/where the hand release should happen, I think you should think of it this way: 1. In general, the longer the hand is in the water…
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Total Immersion: More on Training for the Early Vertical Forearm (EVF)
Mike McCloskey, a Total Immersion swimmer, wrote to me regarding some tips on training for a Early Vertical Forearm or EVF. Here were my replies: What drill(s) can you recommend to entrain a high elbow catch, or, which one(s) helped you the most? In answer to your question, first see my old post: Total Immersion:…
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ART for Swim Performance Enhancement
Way back in 2005, I wrote about how Active Release Technique (ART) could be used for performance enhancement in my post, Where there is Pain, There is Gain… . Using ART, I released decades of adhesions that were restricting my hips from moving properly. After loosening of them up, I was able to improve my…
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Total Immersion: A Session with Dave Cameron 10-24-11
This weekend, I took the last two days of Total Immersion coach certification – I’m almost there, needing only to do one last homework assignment and I’ll be an official TI coach! At the end of the coach certification classes, I asked Dave Cameron (aka Distance Dave) if he would do a short private coaching…
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Alcatraz Invitational 2011: A New PR and GPS Fun
Yesterday, I swam the Alcatraz Invitational 2011, one of the many Alcatraz swims that are held each year. This one is held by the South End Rowing Club and is a favorite. Alcatraz swims can generally be held in two conditions, either starting with a flood or ebb. Then there is a slack where it…
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The Waikiki Rough Water Swim 9-5-11 with Garmin 305 GPS
Today, I got up early and swam the Waikiki Rough Water Swim. It’s my third time swimming it and hoped for a faster time today but it was not to be – I did it in 1:22:46 which is about 2+ minutes slower than my previous time of 1:20. Rebuilding my stroke via Total Immersion…
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Total Immersion: Training for Higher Tempos and Higher Speeds
In this thread of the Total Immersion forums, I replied to Terry Laughlin’s post of: Sun Yang is the new TI poster boy. (No we are not claiming him as a TI swimmer, only as a demonstration that longer strokes ARE the way to superior swimming. with this comment and query: Terry, I have been…
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Total Immersion: Spearing Width and Depth
Throughout the TI forums, we find references to how the elites swim and whether or not Total Immersion needs to change its teachings so that we all drive towards swimming like Michael Phelps and like company. One of those contentious topics is the spearing angle. I replied on one of the forum posts with this:…
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Becoming a Total Immersion Coach: the Application
Well, I finally got around to submitting my application to apply for TI coach training. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for a while and after talking to Coach Shinji about it, he was very supportive and thought I would make a good coach. So I went on the Total Immersion website, found the…
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Total Immersion: Fixing My Left Side and Swimming Symmetry
Back in May, I met with Coach Shinji for a swim lesson. Going through some of the things I wanted to work on, I remarked that for some reason when I am spearing with my right hand, I seem to glide a lot faster/longer than when I spear with my left hand. It had been…
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