This official total immersion online introductory course gives a free introduction to the 5 stage total immersion technique which can turn you into the swimmer youve always wanted to be. A total immersion swimming program for success in open water with terry laughlin and freestyle. Unfortunately, whether it was intentional to sell lessons or just due to a lack of thought, the book and the accompanying dvd have awful pedagogy and make it very difficult to actually learn. Rather coach terry laughlins approach to swim instruction prioritizes minimizing drag first, teaching students to become slippery in the water rather than trying to push and pull. How can i use my certification and license as a ti teaching professional. The total immersion way for anyone to master openwater swimming. Sales were steady, and two decades after that first edition came out, the books 2004 update is amazons number one topseller in swimming titles.
Promote yourself as a certified total immersion coach and coach private lessons and groups of up to 3 people. Total immersion complete guide to graceful freestyle. Its all a bit slick and american sorry chaps but you know what i mean think day time tv exercise dvd selling in its approach but when you stripaway all that surface gloss i found. Aug 02, 1996 as someone who grew up hating swimming largely due to poor technique, i think the stroke taught by total immersion is wonderful. Its the first instruction thats made sense to me and is 100%. Fish dont swim on their side and neither should you.
Swimming that changes your life over the last year, this blog has released several excerpts from the unpublished draft of terrys final book, of which he was nearing completion when he passed away in october 2017. There is a lot of good stuff in the book, though i think without a coach, or at least a dvd like outside the box. I wasnt able to do the exact training exercises described in the book i couldnt kick at all. Total immersion complete guide to graceful freestyle total.
Total immersion swimming swimming instruction for swimmers. His innovative total immersion methods have helped a million average swimmers around the world. In this video, you will learn specific skills for open water swimming, such as sighing, turn and course correction. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read total immersion drill cards. The total immersion way for anyone to master openwater swimming by terry laughlin jan 1, 2002 4. Swim ultraefficient freestyle the fishlike techniques. Freestyle made easy ebook written by terry laughlin. Total immersion tips for efficient freestyle swimming hide your head lead with the top of your head, not your forehead feel water flowing over the back of your head much of the time see the bottom directly under you, and not much that is forward of you swim downhill lean on your chest until your hips and legs feel light. In the first workout ive never had a coach or supervision i cut my drag and water resistance at least 50%, swimming more laps than ever before in my life. This book made a major impact on my freestyle stroke and basic attitudes towards traditional swim training. Terry was the founder of total immersion swimming and coauthor of total immersion. You can buy a book but you really do need to get the dvd. Swim betterand enjoy every lapwith total immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from an expert with more than thirty years of experience in the water.
I encourage all of you whether you want to overcome your fears or win the ironman to give ti training a test drive. Total immersion swimming the worlds top swim training. Total immersion swimming, new paltz village, new york. Fish like swimming october 14, 2002 recently several people have asked me my thoughts on the total immersion clinics and training principles. In 1996, terry described this innovative way of swimming in total immersion. You can learn the coordination of the arm movements and the body rotation in the water stepbystep, and this is a very important technique in order to swim effectively. One side point id like to share is that i trained for the first few months months with a pull buoy, because of my injury. His inspiration was aquatic animals and he concluded that good body alignment was essential to minimising water resistance. Coach stuart mcdougal total immersion swimming duration.
This approach can be beneficial to entrylevel adult swimmers, triathletes, distance swimmers, and those who swim for exercise and health. The traditional way of swimming freestyle is designed to maximize speed in the short term but makes you tire quickly and increases risk of injury by emphasizing fast, shorter, powerful strokes. Total immersion book by terry laughlin, john delves. First, the beginning of the book drags on a bit about the benefits of the total immersion swim program. A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style thats always comfortable. Whatever your reasons for swimmingrecreation, fitness, endurance, or speedyour chances of success and satisfaction will increase enormously if you approach swimming as a game of skillrather than test of endurance. These motions by themselves generate no propulsion. Total immersion, named for the popular workshops he gives across the country, will change the way you move your body through the water, laughlin will take the way you swim and turn it inside out as you learn that its technique not athletic ability that makes a strong swimmer. In the total immersion method, fitness happens while you learn and improve skills. Listen to part 66 of a lecture given by total immersions head coach terry laughlin. Although swimming is an essential life skill, traditional teaching and coaching methods have made it difficult to master. In a very short period of time with this book, my stroke has lengthened considerably, i am beginning to glide gracefully through the water and my length. Two decades later it continues to outsell all other swimming books by a wide margin. Based on more than twentyfive years of teaching, coaching, and research, terry laughlins total immersion approach is sure to improve the quality of your.
He takes the time to answer questions from the audience about technique and buoyancy. This book develops us to swim with greater ease and in doing so, with greater efficiency. Cullen jones, michael phelps and shinji takeuchi, the head coach of ti japan. Millions of people all over the world love to swim the total immersion ti way because our technique is satisfying, easy to learn, and really works. A powerful swimming technique you might not have heard of before coupling motions are part of our everyday lives and help us move faster, but we dont think about them much. Total immersions perpetual motion freestyle is designed to help you swim longer with more ease and enjoyment.
Made easy, it would be very difficult to get it right. Jul 02, 2009 listen to part 66 of a lecture given by total immersion s head coach terry laughlin. The revolutionary way to swim better, faster, and easier ebook written by terry laughlin. I wasnt able to do the exact training exercises described in the book. Terry laughlin is the worlds most trusted expert on swimming technique. His innovative total immersion methods have helped a million average swimmers around the world swim with a skill, confidence, and satisfaction unmatched by any other approach. Total immersion tips for efficient freestyle swimming. Inside of a year, word of mouth had propelled it to become the topselling book on swimming.
As someone who grew up hating swimming largely due to poor technique, i think the stroke taught by total immersion is wonderful. But every few years the total immersion clinics and stroke technique concepts get some press or attention, usually in the triath. An exclusive excerpt in an ongoing series of material from terrys forthcoming final book, total immersion. Terry laughlin, a former swimmer and coach who published the book total immersion and championed the importance and priority of technique in swimming, has. The revolutionary way to swim better, faster, and easier. Terry laughlin, who created the techniquefocused swim training system known as total immersion, passed away friday, oct. The revolutionary way to swim better, faster, and easier is the bestselling swimming book ever. The total immersion method is a foolproof approach to learning swimming that brings results faster than conventional teaching, helping any level of swimmer or. The book is broken down in a somewhat practical way and the best way to sum up the technique is from this part of the amazon listing. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read total immersion. Comparison of freestyle jones, phelps and ti coach youtube. Once you learn the total immersion technique, ordinary swimming seems nonsensical. Terry laughlin, founder of total immersion, passes away at 66.
Total immersion opens up a whole new way of thinking and attitude towards the science of swimming. Oct 29, 2017 terry was the founder of total immersion swimming and coauthor of total immersion. He had a profound impact on me teaching me to overcome a lifelong fear of water and swimming read all about it here. At total immersion we have a foolproof approach to coaching swimming that brings results faster than conventional teaching, helping any level of swimmer or triathlete to master a fluent, efficient and fast stroke technique. A holistic approach to becoming one with the water and to developing a swimming style thats always comfortable i initially went straight into the total immersion. Terry laughlin, author of total immersion, passes at 66. Tim ferriss on total immersion swim technique youtube.
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