Total Immersion is not only a revolutionary way to teach and practice swimming, but a unique career opportunity as well. If you love TI swimming, why not make your living teaching what you love?

TI instructors are distinguished from all others both by their ability to teach anyone to swim well, and their capacity to inspire their students to real passion for swimming and launch them on a Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) Swimming path.

Why Become a TI Teaching Professional?

Your most important motivation should be: (1) a deep passion for TI Swimming and a desire to share it with others; (2) a desire to advance your own practice and mastery by teaching others; and (3) the knowledge of how satisfying it can be to help others learn an essential life skill.

Naturally, it’s equally important that you be able to earn a good living doing what you love.  Build a successful small business as a swimming instructor and coach!

How will I be trained?

Your career path begins as a Certified Coach. Our instructor development program is designed to develop both teaching and people skills in small classes with personal attention. You’ll learn the fine points of how to diagnose and correct stroke flaws, and how to guide your students to mastery. We’ll cover in-pool instruction, and how to accelerate learning through subtle hands-on adjustment of head, limbs, torso – even the fingers. We’ll also cover video analysis and methods for presenting TI concepts and principles to individuals and groups.

What is the cost?

Tuition for the 5-day Teacher Training course is $2,250.

** (There is an additional $50 processing fee collected at the time applications are submitted)

How can I use my certification as a TI Teaching Professional?

1. Promote yourself as a Certified Total Immersion Coach
2. Use the globally-recognized Total Immersion name, trademarks and logo to market your business
3. Purchase any official TI- self-coaching tools (books, DVDs, etc) for resale at preferred Coach Wholesale rate
4. Earn money by participating in the Coach Affiliate Sales program
5. You will have the opportunity to be listed on the TI website’s Coach Directory (optional service – $350 per quarter)
6. You will have the opportunity to post your workshops and events on the Total Immersion Event List (optional service – $200 per listing)

Before Applying:

1. Complete a Total Immersion Freestyle Workshop (or equivalent private instruction from a TI Coach).
2. Practice TI Drills and achieve a general sense of ease with your swimming.
3. Become familiar with drill sequence and technique presented on the Perpetual Motion Freestyle in 10 Lessons DVD
4. Become a participant on the TI Discussion Forum.

How To Apply:

    Please answer the following 5 questions:

    1. Briefly tell your “TI Story” and include why you want to become a TI Coach.

    2. What aspects of the TI approach do you particularly identify with?
    3. Who do you feel best qualified to teach?  What type of swimmer(s)?
    4. What are your 3 highest-value reasons for swimming?

    5. What are your 3 most important swimming improvement goals.

    2. Submit video using the following guidelines:
Submit video of the following drills – 20 seconds or up to 10 switches or strokes of each will   suffice to demonstrate level of mastery.  When done, upload video files to YouTube or another video hosting service.

    Skate
    Multi-SpearSwitch
    Multi-SwingSwitch
    Whole Stroke

    For each drill we’d like to see these views:

    Side Underwater  (if possible)
    Side Surface
    Front Surface

    3. Resume and References:

Include any life experiences that may have helped prepare you for the goals you describe above.  We’re interested not strictly – or even primarily – in formal swim coaching or teaching experience, but anything that could help be an effective teacher and/or be successful in operating a teaching business.  This could include other teaching experience, practice or coaching/teaching experience in other sports and movement arts – including dance or martial arts, of forms of bodywork such as yoga, Pilates or massage, as well as any pertinent business experience.  Please be sure to include 3 references (at least 1 professional) that we may contact.

How To Submit Application:

Send the following in an email to angela@totalimmersion.net

    (1) Answers to 5 questions – saved as a Word document or PDF – attached to email

    (2) Resume and References – saved as a Word document or PDF – attached to email

    (3) Link(s) to videos – pasted into body of email

    (4) Personal information (full name, phone, email, mailing address, social security #) 

    (5) Be sure to include “Teacher Training Application” in the subject field

Please note: each applicant will be subject to a background check.  Payment of the $50 application fee is required prior to any application being processed.  Once your application is received you will be contacted by a member of our team to make payment.

Applicants will be notified within 1 week of submitting an application.  If accepted into program, applicant will be eligible to register for any of the scheduled 1 week training programs available at that time, or may defer registration for up to a year. Please direct any questions about the program or the application process to angela.dorris@gmail.com

Your training will include: 

• Enrollment in our online TI Coach Academy training center for your Pre-Course and Post-Course study assignments.

• 3 1/2 days learning to develop the stroke and develop the mind of a swimmer for their own specific, personal goals.

• 2-day practice in guiding students through TI Freestyle Level 1 and Level 2 drill-skill progression

• Practice in underwater video and analysis using TI diagnostic methods

• Stroke Skill Development and Personalized Lesson Planning

• Using Baseline Test Swims, Swim Metrics, and Goal-Achievement Planning

• Learning the Mathematics of Speed

• Learning how to create ‘Super-Learning’ Environments

• Becoming familiar with TI Workshop Organization

You will receive:

• A Certificate of Completion. With this certification you will be internationally recognized as a TI Coach Professional, including within the United States. 

• TI Coach shirt, and TI Logo silicon cap.

• Finis Tempo Trainer Pro.

• A copy of an annually renewable agreement for independent international TI coaches.

• Pre-training study material and TI Coach Trainee Manual.

• Access to TIcoach.net online archive of TI resources, videos and ebooks. 

• Coach discount program for products offered in the online TI Store.

• Access to exclusive discounts offered to TI Coaches by partner companies.