It was almost exactly 500 years ago that Leonardo daVinci had a striking insight into how birds fly that influenced the Wright brothers 400 years later and established the principles that govern aircraft design to this day.
Not a …
From the email bag. This message is from a former marathon swimmer who recently decided to develop more speed by training with a Masters group. His email expressed frustration probably experienced by many from time to time. Most people, when …
I received an email from an enthused graduate of a TI Workshop, which read in part "By kicking from the abductor, combined with streamlining, I was able to kick the whole length of the pool underwater with only …
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 …
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 …
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, …