How Important is Kicking?
From: DavidSent: Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:17 PM
To: Steven van…
From: DavidSent: Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:17 PM
To: Steven van…
OK- so I just had a dynamite workshop in San Francisco. i have done many workshops in the past 5 years, and many have had their unique successes, but this one had a flow and improvement across the board that …
Originally appeared on the TI Discussion Forum
Posted by Syzygy
I went to a TI Weekend Workshop two months ago having had no formal swimming experience (and thus few bad habits). I have been practicing the drills and have …
The most active current thread on the TI Discussion Forum is "Swimming Teaching" in the Freestyle conference. There is an impressive range of insight and passion by people who have experienced or observed ineffective instruction — which in the aquatic …
Another blog that I’ve migrated from an interesting topic on the TI Discussion Forum:
Swimmers peak performance curve?
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I know there are a lot of factors that may affect a swimmers performance at a meet — wearing a …
This was part of a post by Richard on the How to Swim a Mile conference at the Discussion Forum
Personally I find the thought of swimming a mile (or 1500m) in a short course pool too tedious to consider, …
The April 20 edition of the NY Times included an article about a project to build a supersonic car — one capable of 800mph of land speed, which would make it the first vehicle to break the sound barrier …
Here’s a cool graphic from the NY Times article — a computer-generated fluid dynamics study showing the flow of air around the jet car’s fuselage. The orange areas indicate where resistance is highest. The blue areas represent the lowest …
Laurence swam for me 35 years ago during my first coaching gig, at the US Merchant Marine Academy, and was one of my first coaching successes, improving in 18 months from 2:15 to 1:49 for 200-yards Free. He’s been an …
S.U. asked: I began learning to swim at a TI Workshop in November 2008 and can now swim 19 strokes for 25 meters. Now that my stroke is reasonably efficient, I’ve begun using a Tempo Trainer in whole-stroke practice …