Total Immersion

You are in luck my friend. Loretta, the aquatics director at PLC Olathe, will be doing TI drills for our warm-up next week Tuesday nite at Masters. This will likely continue if we want her to. I have the book, but it's on loan right now. As soon as I get it back, I'll let you borrow it.

When I first started three months ago, I just worked on floating my back for minutes at a time. Got comfortable and move to floating on my chest. Then worked on swimming "pressing my bouy", essentially pushing my chest down into the water so my legs came up. I only use my legs to keep balance, not as propulsion.

When you're ready to learn the teacher will appear????

I guess??

OWS 6:30 tonite, Lake Olathe, NW parking lot off Lakeshore

I took a TI Clinic this past March in STL. It was well worth it to me. I just started swimming in January and have improved dramatically since the clinic. Mind you, I'm still slow as snot and have a weak kick, but everything seems to be working better.

Its tough when the TI coach deems you an "almost sinker". I'm too dense for my own good...

I haven't had coaching from an official instructor, but I've used the dvd/book/cards and have also received from coaches (in San Francisco) who use TI. I think its helped me a lot.

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PS, Wasn't there discussion about a TI instructor coming down from St. Louis clinic?

Yeah, Hap Gentry is the TI Coach out in STL. I've passed his info onto Loretta @ Olathe PLC. Its pretty much up to them to get things scheduled. Possibly could be this summer.

I don't belong at PLC anymore so if you hear of Hap Gentry coming to town, please let me know.

Will do

I was like you. I started training for my 1st Sprint on my 32nd B-Day, May 21 training for theTopeka Tinman. When I started I bought the TI Freestyle Made Easy DVD. In one week my swim increased tenfold. I made my own drill cards. In about 4 days a had all the drills down. In May I could do about 50 Meters with a horrible form and had to take a breather. Now I am doing about 800 Meters at a time with my 2500 Meter workouts and it keeps getting better. You have to find your rythem and sweet spot.