Coach Stuart McDougal - Total Immersion Swimming

[@joejoe-lb6bw]

Great explanation and visualization of what slipping in the stroke means.

[@freefalling_bh1907]

so meticulous, very helpful! I started TI training a few weeks ago, and this is an excellent supplement to the TI instructions by coach Terry Laughlin! THANK YOU!

[@ArinaThomsen]

I recently started practicing TI approach and I wish someone could film me and do such an analysis for me. Extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@JohnBergerViolin]

Excellent analysis and advice. Thanks for posting.

[@johndolphinclinic]

Thanks Joel. I will have to get up to speed ok. Thanks again for your help

[@johndolphinclinic]

Thanks Joel. it's a fair bit away from the west of lreland

[@joeldorfan3608]

haha it's a big world. Post some video like I did and get his comment. This is what I did here. All done remotely.

[@АлексейФедотов-и3ш]

John Newell

[@SuperTiziani]

To me Ti it's an excellent starting point. Then I shaped it to my swimming,

[@joeldorfan3608]

Agreed. I would have been a non starter without TI. I started learning in my 50's and needed some strict guidelines to get me on the right track. Since then I have been experimenting with straighter arm recoveries, thumb first entries and more. I now swim about 2000 yards in ocean a few times a week with tune up sessions in the pool in-between. At about 2 minutes per 100 yards I am one of the slower swimmers in the ocean. In the pool I average around 1:40 to 1:45 but can do the odd 1:30 with some effort.

[@willkiesel2961]

that was incredible dissection....excellent job

[@mrsc300]

hi Joel can you explain back to front propulsion. how do you do it. I saw a few videos where shinji mentions it. thx

[@joeldorfan3608]

mrsc300 That's not a term I have come across before. I would interpret it as propulsion starting at the back as your recovery arm with up facing palm clears the water and then with an elbow lead recovery spear your hand into the mail slot giving you the forward momentum to drive you past your anchored other arm in the catch position. Perhaps post your question on the TI forum where you will get more answers.

[@ILOVESWIMMINBIKING]

It was over rotation ?

[@sudanjackson]

Very,very helpful!

[@joeldorfan3608]

Pleased that you found it useful. Here is a more recent follow up session kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYuZhXVvnNaWbZI

[@johndolphinclinic]

where is Stuart working. looking for some help with TI. Galway

[@joeldorfan3608]

Best is to hook up with him on the TI forums. He runs TI masters classes a few times per week in LA.

[@qubit0002]

When you say, "...finish forward and stop pulling" do you mean extend the glide with outstretched arm before entering with opposite hand?

[@joeldorfan3608]

I am the swimmer not the coach. However my interpretation is that the focus must be on spearing into the correct position (finish forward) and then bringing the arm back to the hip ready for the next recovery as opposed to ripping (pulling) the arm backwards. I'm still totally guilty of pulling. If I don't pull I do a 1:50 100 yards and if I do pull I do a 1:30 100 yards so still trying to head my head around this one.

[@infectiousangel]

Wow, thank you for sharing! That is incredibly helpful :)

[@joeldorfan3608]

Hi. I am pleased that you found it useful. Here is another one from earlier this year kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYuZhXVvnNaWbZI&t=

[@carlosd.2416]

Just to let you know that Total Immersion fails to me to be a guidance to my swimming enjoyment. There are incomplete, contradictory information. The instructors are inconsistent and they diverge among themselves. Also there is the ego part of tem that does not help. TI could have been completed system and free o baggage - clearly it is not... Just one small example: in TI , there is emphases to to a high elbow recovery. IT IS HARMFUL AND NOT GOOD. I had followed it religiously , but it causes pain, set back, the instructors could never help or being consistente. Very unclear and full of ego baggage instruction. I ha e found simpler? Direct, free of baggage instruction from triathlon / functional swimming instruction Karlyin Pipes from Kona, Hawaii.