Terry Laughlin - Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

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The most valuable service a good coach provides is to sharpen your technique, not make you work harder. Terry Laughlin has done an outstanding job of simplifying that complex job, providing practical tools that will work for any coach or teacher.

EDDIE REESE, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 United States Olympic Coach and Head Coach, University of Texas [six-time NCAA champions]

Total Immersion can help anyone learn to be a better swimmer, regardless of ability. Terry Laughlin makes an improved stroke simple for the novice, yet Ive seen his methods work for elite swimmers, too.

DAVID MARSH, 1996, 2000, and 2004 United States Olympic Coach and Head Coach, Auburn University [2003 NCAA Mens and Womens champions]

TERRY LAUGHLIN is the founder of Total Immersion Swimming (www.totalimmersion.net). He teaches swimming all over the world and lives in New Paltz, New York.

JOHN DELVES is a health and fitness writer. He lives in Amityville, New York.

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The Total Immersion Web site will be a priceless source of no-charge support and information. Important features include:

Total Swim, a free newsletter featuring immediately useful articles several times each month. A key ingredient of this newsletter is articles contributed by TI students like you, sharing the insights that have helped them reach their goals. Please consider becoming a contributor.

An online Discussion Forum for swimmers who are using this book and TI methods to improve their swimming. Use this forum to share your insights, discoveries, and successes, to ask questions and to tap the experience of others who are on the same Mastery path as you.

Video clips spotlighting key refinements of TI drills and skills.

Regularly updated samples of TI-specific practices for both technique improvement and effective training.

A steadily growing directory of trained and certified TI Coaches available to work with you toward achievement of your goals and complete swimming fulfillment.

Information on how you can become a certified TI Teaching Professional. You may have discovered how difficult it can be to find a qualified instructor who can help you with TI practice. You can be part of the solution. Most of our Teaching Professionals started like you, by learning TI, realizing how simple and effective it is, and wanting to share their discovery with others. Most had never before thought of teaching swimming.

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If this book has piqued your interest in developing yourself further as a swimmer, TI offers a growing selection of books and videos/DVDs that distill the complex movements of swimming into simple concepts and progressions that can help any swimmer achieve satisfaction and maximize his or her potential. TI books and videos are fully guaranteed to improve your swimming. If at any time youre not satisfied with their quality, contact TI for a full refund and you get to keep the book or video. For complete information, visit www.totalimmersion.net or call 800-609-7946 or 845-256-9770.

FREESTYLE MADE EASY

Visual reinforcement is priceless in learning physical skills. This 45-minute video illustrates the lesson sequence; each step is examined from above and below water, and in slow motion and stop-action. It also includes special learning refinements from Total Immersion Weekend Workshops to aid struggling swimmers, such as the TI Buddy System method, which shows you how to learn faster by collaborating with a friend or partner at any stage of the learning process. Also instruction in freestyle turns, both the relaxing open turn and the fast flip turn. $39.95 VHS or DVD.

HAPPY LAPS: TOTAL IMMERSION FOR BEGINNERS

If youre a nonswimmer if you can swim only a few strokes if youre intimidated by deep water, this is the TI video for you. Illustrates a simple, clear, commonsense approach for learning to be completely at home in the water, experiencing Flow, ease, and real joyin just a few hourswith a combination of partnered and self-guided discovery exercises. Lesson One will teach you to be completely comfortable in the water and how to breathe comfortably. Lesson Two teaches you how your body naturally behaves in the water. Lesson Three will teach you to move through the water as fish do, with balanced, slippery, whole body movement. $29.95 VHS or DVD.

ALL FOUR STROKES MADE EASY

This DVD illustrates step-by-step skill drills (described in Swimming Made Easy ) that anyone can master for improved comfort, form, and speed in the four strokes of competitive swimming: butterfly, back-stroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Also includes combo drills that cut learning time in half and help you improve with unprecedented ease and speed. All essential positions and movements illustrated with slow-motion, surface, and underwater views plus advice for the self-coached swimmer with vivid descriptions of how your strokes should feel when youre doing them correctly. $29.95 DVD only.

SWIMMING MADE EASY: THE TOTAL IMMERSION WAY FOR ANY SWIMMER TO ACHIEVE FLUENCY, EASE, AND SPEED IN ANY STROKE

If you are encouraged by the development of your freestyle from the guidance in this book, SME provides similar guidance on applying the principles of Total Immersion to all four strokes. Refine your form and increase your pleasure with ten lessons, illustrated with 150 surface and underwater photos. Ten chapters on self-coaching show you how to be your own best coach. $19.95.

TRIATHLON SWIMMING MADE EASY: HOW ANYONE CAN SUCCEED IN TRIATHLON OR OPEN-WATER SWIMMING

If you think youd like to venture out from the pool to tackle a triathlon or try your hand at open-water swimming, TSME provides a step-by-step learning plan that will help you swim with ease and confidence for any distance in any body of water. $24.95.

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