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Total Immersion 1.0 Coach Training Course: 
Stuttgart-Kemnat, Germany - March 05 - 08, 2025


Please note: becoming a TI Coach is an application process, you cannot just register. You need to apply via the application below and be accepted BEFORE registering. Thank you!

LOCATION: Our venue for the classroom is Vereinsraum DLRG Kemnat, Pfingstweideweg 2, 73760 Ostfildern-Kemnat. Click here for a map. Our venue for the pool is Gemeinnützige Hallenbad Initiative Kemnat, Haldenstrasse 42, 73760 Ostfildern-Kemnat. Click Here for a map.

TUITION: $1,800.00

CERTIFICATION: Successful completion of this Course qualifies you to become a 1.0 Certified Coach. Contact Denise Edkins denise@totalimmersion.net to learn about the terms and conditions of the TI Coach Certification.

APPLICATION: CLICK HERE to fill out the application and submit your audition video.

SCHEDULE: To be determined.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the Coach Training, Certification program, and the application process. Thank you for your inquiry!

ABOUT THE COACHES: As a 20-year veteran of Total Immersion Coaching, Dave Cameron  has integrated its methodology and teaching into a wide spectrum of settings for swimmers With a team of excellent contributing coaches. Dave also supervises and coaches the largest masters program in his state, with over 150 swimmers learning why they don't need a pull buoy to feel effortless and fast swimming. Sabine Vollmer has been a Level 3 TI coach for many years.  She teaches beginners, advanced swimmers, open water swimmers and triathletes with great passion. Her goal is to imbue enthusiasm about swimming in as many people as possible and to ensure that they execute proper TI technique while having as much fun and enjoyment in the process. Sabine gives her all when coaching, providing as much knowledge as possible while keeping the lessons fun and challenging. Helga Peters is a passionate Level 3 TI coach with years of experience teaching all strokes. She works with swimmers of any level, from beginners to professionals, including adults, children, and those with a fear of water. Helga’s solutions-oriented approach and creative instruction make the TI technique immediately applicable and effective. Helga takes great pride in seeing her TI swimmers improve, noticing how much more efficient and effective they become with the Total Immersion method.  She tailors each lesson to meet the individual needs of her swimmers while ensuring that it is both engaging and challenging. Her energy and enthusiasm inspire confidence and make every session enjoyable. SPECIAL GUEST COACH, TI co-founder Alice Laughlin. Alice has over 25 years of experience in coaching hundreds of Total Immersion workshops, open water camps, TI coach training, as well as private lessons worldwide. She also directs and manages the Total Immersion Swim Studio in New Paltz, NY, where she coaches all ages and all abilities.

DESCRIPTION: 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.

The TI 1.0 Coach Certification Course is now more concise and streamlined than ever. This course prepares coaching candidates to teach private lessons or groups of up to 4  people. Our concentrated 3-day training—supplemented by personal study and practice exercises before and after the course—provides proven tools for teaching students to swim with greater ease, efficiency, and enjoyment than any other program.

Why Become a TI Teaching Professional?
Your strongest 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 will be to help others master an essential life skill.

How Will I Be Trained?
Your TI professional path begins as a Certified Coach 1.0. Our instructor development program is designed to develop both teaching and people skills in small-group training sessions with personal attention. You’ll learn the biomechanics and fluid dynamics of a human body moving through water, a foolproof stepwise system for teaching the foundations of super-efficient swimming—as well as the science of learning and art of teaching.

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 small groups.

How Can I Use My Certification and License as a TI Teaching Professional?
     • Promote yourself as a Certified Total Immersion Coach and coach private lessons and groups of up to 4 people.
     • Use the globally-recognized Total Immersion name.
     • Be listed on TI's global directory of certified instructors and use the TI logo, marks and brand.. (Additional fee applies)
     • Join the TI Coach Academy to continue your self-improvement as an instructor and business owner.
     • Participate in teaching opportunities on the TI Academy to bring yourself before thousands of daily visitors on the TI website.
     • Purchase any official TI- self-coaching tools (books, DVDs, etc) for resale at preferred Coach Wholesale rate
     • Earn money by participating in the Coach Affiliate Sales program.
     • Participate in additional TI training and certification programs open to Certified Coaches only.

And much more...

SCHEDULE:  To be determined.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the Coach Training, Certification program, and the application process.

Read more about the TI Coach Licensing and Certification options by viewing this list of frequently asked questions. You may also request a copy of the Coach License and Certification Agreements by emailing Denise Edkins at denise@totalimmersion.net.

How Do I Qualify to Attend the Training Course?
Complete three steps:

Step 1 - Experience TI As A Student
Learn and practice TI stroke technique by attending a live TI training event, or receiving a series of lessons from a certified TI Coach. TI has a unique way of learning and teaching. All would-be coaches should experience TI as a student before seeking to teach it.

Step 2 - Master The Form and Essential Drills
Practice both the TI freestyle stroke and the 4 main drills presented in the TI Essential Skills video learning program. Submit a link to video of your comfortable demonstration of whole stroke and a select group of drills.

Step 3 - Apply For The Course
Apply for the coach training course, attend, and complete the TI Coach 1.0 Certification Course (3 days).

How Do I Apply?
You may click [here] to view the application.

In order to complete the application you will be asked to:
     • Provide your complete contact information
     • Answer several interview questions (listed in the application)
     • Provide links to video demonstration you have made (see below for description of the video demonstration)
     • Review and sign a TI Instructor and or License Agreement

You may want to view the interview form in order to copy the interview questions and write your answers offline, then paste them into the application when you are ready to finish it.

CCC Application Video Demo Requirements
In preparation for your TI Coach 1.0 training experience you are expected to spend some time (perhaps months) training in the TI technique and drills. TI Coaches are expected to competently demonstrate everything they teach. The camp is intended to focus upon teaching trainees how to teach rather than how to perform the drills, so you'll need to spend the time necessarily to become comfortable and confident in the demonstration of the basic TI freestyle skills before applying for the course.

Please shoot the following video demonstrations, upload to your preferred hosting site, then provide links to permit us to review:

  1. Whole-stroke--Underwater side view – minimum of 12 strokes, including 4 or more breaths.
  2. Whole-stroke, Underwater front view – 8 or more strokes, including 2 or more breaths.
  3. Whole-stroke Surface front view – 8 or more strokes, including 2 or more breaths
  4. Whole-stroke Surface side view—12 or more strokes, including 4 or more breaths.
  5. Superman Glide, from standing push-off to 3 or 4 seconds glide – Surface side view fairly tight (your body should fill the frame)
  6. Superman to Right Skate,
  7. Superman to Left Skate
  8. Bilateral (to both sides) Breathing

You will have been introduced to these drills in your live TI Freestyle workshop experience or in live lessons with a certified TI Coach. In addition, they may be studied on the TI Essential Skills video program. 

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