Questions For TI
- Can a poor swimmer or beginner attend a TI workshop?
- Can experienced swimmers improve with TI?
- If you already have a TI book, how important is it to have one of the TI videos?
- What can people learn on their own simply using the video vs. what they learn at a workshop?
- What are Fistgloves?
- Is it possible for me to learn more about TI and my swim techniques before considering TI seriously?
- How do I sign up?
Can a poor swimmer or beginner attend a TI workshop?
To attend the TI Workshop (specifically the TI FFWS Part A & B), you should be able to swim at least 25m in freestyle. But if you are a poor or frustrated swimmer, our record of turning strugglers (even those who have been frustrated for years) into swimmers is unmatched. We can help you progress enormously in 24 sessions – far more than years of tedious laps would accomplish. You’ll leave the workshops with a specific plan for improvement and the tools to make it happen.
Can experienced swimmers improve with TI?
Total Immersion can help ANY swimmer maximize their potential. If you have Human DNA, we can teach you to be more Fishlike and give you a much stronger foundation for continuing to improve. The best swimmers in the world are characterized by their graceful, economical movement more than by any other quality. There are only a few dozen swimmers in the world who can swim with impeccable efficiency at top speed --and all are recognized as having reached the elite level in swimming. Even if you have been swimming for years and have considerable success to show for it, you CAN still improve in subtle but still important ways...and Total Immersion has proven to be the most dependable method of creating that improvement.
If you already have a TI book, how important is it to have one of the TI videos?
The videos are intended to complement the information in the books and vice versa. The videos show you graphically how to execute the drills properly in a way that illustrations and descriptions in the book cannot. The books explain everything we can’t fit into the voiceover on the video – what difficulties you may encounter and how to ease your way, how to practice each drill and lesson after learning the movements, how to apply the lessons of the drills in your whole stroke, and how to train yourself for fitness or speed using both drills and whole-stroke.
What can people learn on their own simply using the video vs. what they learn at a workshop?
Most workshop guests are encouraged to have practiced on their own with the course manual and video before hand. They had made significant improvement by self-coaching with the aid of the video and book. They improved even more dramatically – and did so literally overnight – at the workshop. The impact of being videotaped underwater, having your technique expertly evaluated and following a guided program of instruction under the direction of a coach who is highly experienced in teaching Fishlike Swimming skills will be greater than any other learning process.
The Fistgloves can become one of your favourite training tools that you may wear for 40% or more of all your swimming for several years. When you are wearing them at TI Workshops, the normal rate of transformation and improvement becomes markedly accelerated, because the gloves reinforce everything our drills teach. How we use them: The higher your ratio of drill-to-swim, the higher percentage of your overall training should be with Fistgloves. In an hour of mainly-drill practice, you might wear the gloves for the first 40 to 45 minutes, then finish the practice with bare hands. As you increase the amount of swimming, you might switch to a 60:40 ratio of gloves to bare hands.
Competitive swimmers in training, might use Fistgloves as much as 70% of the time in early season, gradually reducing that ratio to 30% or less in mid-season, then increasing Fistglove use in taper to 50% or more. During taper, the gloves will reduce stress and fatigue and increase sensitivity and kinaesthetic awareness.
For developing swimmers, a novice could use Fistgloves 70% to 80% of the time, an intermediate swimmer 50% to 70% of the time and an advanced or elite swimmer 30% to 50%.
Is it possible for me to learn more about TI and my swim techniques before considering TI seriously?
Yes, a Total Immersion Introductory Workshop is available to give you unique experience in TI. Designed as a one-stop workshop that provides you with a sensational experience in graceful yet powerful freestyle. This introduction encompasses specific crucial techniques in TI with individual underwater video analysis by our FAS coaches.
Procedures for and after signing up can be followed as below:
- Sign up under Register to fill in the application form on-line.
- An email would reply on the availability of the workshops.
- Payment by cheque to "Fishlike Aquatic School".
- Send cheque to this address:
Fishlike Aquatic School
634 Pasir Ris Drive 1 #06-606 Singapore 510634 - A confirmation e-mail would be sent upon approval of cheque.
- The workshop manual* and DVD* would be send shortly after cheque approval.
* Sending of workshop manual and DVD would only be applicable in application for TI FFWS Part A as TI FFWS Part B would be using similar reading materials