Total Immersion Introductory Training Session

Hearing good very comments by Eric Chua abt Total Immersion (TI), I decided to sign up the 1hr introductory training session during SCMS 2011 Race Pack Collection... p/s - and i signed up the level 1 swimming package a week later during the TI seminar.

On 18 Dec morning, I went for the introductory training session. In my opinion, this is supposed to be a cheap and quick introduction to TI swimming but the session turns out to be otherwise. Let me list a few of the good things abt the introductory training session,

1.   Sufficient Training Aids -  the video links were sent to students a week ago so that the students can understand the TI way of swimming before the workshop.  Also, there was a free 2hr swim seminar conducted that gave me a even better clarity on TI swimming. 

2.   Instructor to Student Ratios was Excellent -  Fish Tang was the Chief Coach with 3 other coaches assisting him to teach 3 different groups of students (around 4 per group and based on swimming abbility).

3.   Skill-focus (and not time focus) - This was supposed to be an hour session but the practical session lasted abt 1.5hrs - only after all the drills were taught and practiced by the students.

Anyway, i am not here to promote the school but  just wanted to log down my relearning journey. Here are some drills that was taught during the session.

 

 Mushroom float - aim to learn how to relax the body to achieve 'natural' boyancy

Skate and Glide - aim to learn the most efficient way of glide in to water effortlessly

Switching - aim to learn how to switch to the other skating position using gravity and core muscle