"Zendurance is the cycling equivalent of Total Immersion Swimming, a kinetically intelligent way to ride your bike."

Endorsed by Terry Laughlin, Founder & Head Coach of Total Immersion Swimming.

The One and Two-Day Zendurance Cycling Technique Clinics offer participants an intensive investigation of posture and alignment, biomechanics and riding position strategies.

Day One (of both clinics) takes place in a studio, using mirrors. Working with their own bikes mounted on stationary stands, this provides athletes with an unsurpassed opportunity for an intensive technique-centered investigation without the dangers and distractions of the open road. The intimate studio environment with mirrors offers instant feedback.

All genres of cycling technique (road, triathlon, etc.) are based on a dynamic and harmonious relationship between the cyclist and the cycle. Each relationship (and hence each individual's technique) is unique. Acquiring sound cycling technique is much more subtle than swim or run technique. This studio investigation leads each athlete towards a comprehensive, personalized cycling technique that empowers her/him with increased:

• Speed
• Efficiency and economy
• Endurance
• Balance and stability
• Comfort and ease
• Aerodynamics

The indoor clinic introduces an array of exercises and drills to facilitate this unique technique development process for each athlete. Typically, the studio day is divided into 2 sessions, each 2-2 1/2 hours long, with a break in between. (If time allows and demand exists, we can explore basic bike maintenance as well.)

This is not a high-intensity, high-output workout. Technique is best developed in a relaxed and calm environment. It is appropriate for athletes of all levels, especially beginning and intermediate riders. Due to the emphasis on harmony and dynamics between the cyclist and the cycle, athletes must provide their own bikes.

Day Two (of the two-day clinic) begins back in the studio with a 1-1 1/2 hour "refresher". Next the clinic moves outside to apply the new technique tools to "real world" riding for 1 1/2-2 hours. Focuses include handling skills (aero and road positions), climbing, terrain and wind-based riding positions, bottle hand-offs, gear selection and cadence, head positioning for aerodynamics and vision, etc. Ideally, this outdoor session takes place in close proximity to the studio, using a parking lot, a quiet stretch of flat road and a quiet hill. The second day concludes back in the studio with a focus on proprioceptive skills.

All participants receive the 25-page Zendurance Cycling Technique Clinic Take-Home Guide, so they can continue to develop and refine their effortless power on the bike.

Clinic prerequisites: An open mind, curiosity and a passion for athletic excellence. As mentioned above, you must bring your bike. (Stationary stands may be available at some clinics.) A dynamic and harmonious relationship begins with a bike that fits you. Shane recommends that you consult a competent bike fit specialist if you are earnest in your pursuit of cycling excellence.

At this time, all clinics are lead by Shane Eversfield, founder and head coach of Zendurance Cycling. Shane is a Serotta Bike Fit Specialist, was certified as a USAT Level I Coach in 2004 and as a Total Immersion Swim Coach in 2008. He has also written several articles and columns for USA Triathlon Life, Triathlete Magazine, Inside Triathlon and Hammer Nutrition's Endurance News. Check his bio for a complete profile. You may wish to read "Positioning On the Bike" and "Cycling Strength and Speed".

Please contact us at office no: 6583 3031 or email: admin@fishlike.net for the clinic.

Date: 19 & 20 July 2008 (Sat & Sun)

Time: 10.30am to 4.30pm

Venue: Fitness Plus @ The Signature, 51 Changi Business Park #08-01

Early Bird Price: S$ 720.00 (sign-up by 30th June 2008)

Normal Price: S$ 800.00

Enrol for this workshop!

Join us on Sunday 9th March at 1.30pm and we'll show you how:

• to become a more efficient swimmer
• to reduce your swimming times
• to achieve faster times using less energy
• by using less energy on your swim, you'll have more energy on the bike and your bike times will improve as well

As all successful athletes know (and all unsuccessful athletes have found out the hard way!) it is critical you upgrade your skill level to maintain your performance and then get better and better...

Fishlike Aquatic School has great pleasure in inviting you to hear how our patented "TOTAL IMMERSION" SWIMMING has revolutionized the swimming world.

See examples of how to improve your technique; hear from some of our satisfied clients and learn how you can swim better, faster, more-efficiently

GUARANTEED!!!

That's why we're called "Fishlike Aquatic School" because Total Immersion teaches you to "swim like a fish"!

To find out how you can benefit from this world leading swimming technology please register before 3rd March.

Cost: FREE!!! (If you register on-line)
Venue: Potong Pasir Community Club
Date: Sunday March 9th
Time: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Enquiries: Please call 6583 3031

Enrol for this workshop!

Time: 9am to 5pm

Venue: Taiwan Hsinchu

Fees: NT$ 18000

Enrol for this workshop!

TI Introductory Workshop

Date: 03 November 2007 (Sat)

Time: 7pm to 9pm

Venue: Taiwan Hsinchu

Fees: NT$ 2000

Enrol for this workshop!

Date/Day:

• 18 July 2007 (Wed)

Time: 7pm to 9pm

Venue: Bukit Robson Condo, Persiaran Syed Putra 5, Kuala Lumpur.

Fees: RM 200

How to sign up?

Please email to tang@fishlike.net

1. Proficient your bike handling techniques
2. Be comfortable with open water swim
3. Get faster in the transition area

Eligibility

Children between 7 - 14 years old with ability to:

• Swim 400 m continuiously
• Generally able to cycle on a two-wheel bicycle

Exclusive shoes lace fastener & water bottle to be given

Venue: East Coast Park E2
Time: 10.00am to 11.30am
Fee: S$ 200.00 (FSA Swimmer) / S$ 220.00 (Public)

Minimum Participants: 10pax
Closing Date: 03 June 2007 (Sunday)

Please note: Participants are to provide their own helmet & bicycle. Fishlike Sports Academy Pte Ltd reserved the rights to cancel this program if the minimum number of participant is not met.

For more details, please email us at admin@fishlike.net

No suspense about this one: fistgloves are unquestionably the best way to learn how to anchor your hands "quickly". They turn any swimmer into a problem solver. When the problems the fistgloves create are solved, the ungloved hand will be much more solidly anchored than before.

One of my favorite coaching techniques is to present swimmer with a well-designed challenge, for example, figuring out how to make forward progress in the water without the use of an open hand. It never fails... Swimmers will experiment with different solutions and intuitively selects the one that works best (and it won't necessarily be the same solution for every swimmer). With furthur practice, they'll eventually "own" the improved techniques that is resulted, and they'll remember the lessons deeply because they discovered the answer all by themselves. In my experience, self-discovered techniques under experienced supervision are invariably more natural to the swimmer than one imposed by a coach or teacher.

The problem presented to the swimmer by the fistglove stroke trainer is ironically: how do you hold on to the water when you have nothing to hold on with? By squeezing the hands into a tight, latex-wrapped fist, a fistglove turns a broad, flat surface into a rubber nub. On the first few lengths, your hands would most likely slip helplessly through the water. But, gradually, you'll figure out how to gain a little control. This is done partly by using the forearm for purchase, partly by increasing the rotation of your body, and partly by simply learning to be more patient. By making the catch with exquisite patience and attention, you will eventually learn to get the water to resist the gloved hand "just a little bit". With practice you can learn to do remarkable things with the slight amount of resistance. So much so that by continuing to stroke patiently, the gloved-swimming sensation will gradually come to feel almost "normal". After a while, you may even wonder if you're wearing a glove!

Measure how much control you're gaining by counting strokes per length. If your experience is similar to mine and that of your TI swimming colleagues you'll find that when you first start wearing the fistgolve, your stroke count per 25 meters may be 3 to 4 strokes higher than without the gloves. But, after regular and attentive practice with the gloves, your gloved count would surprisingly drop to only 1, 2, or even 0 counts higher than your ungloved count. Here, you've learned to balance and rotate and find the best path through the water with our arms.

The real magic, of course, happens when you peel off the gloves. Suddenly, the previously ordinary-feeling hand seems "buge", as if you had a dinner-plate-sized paddle at the end of your arm. And with that broad, flat, bladelike implement to work with, holding on to the water - anchoring your hand - turns out to be a piece of cake.

Why are fistglove better than paddles for teaching the feel for water? Because paddles teach the opposite lesson from fistgloves. Swimmers figure that paddles will teach them how it feels to have "big hands". Once the paddles come off they'll only remember that particular sensation they're aiming for. While the paddles are on, you do of course feel more ease in anchoring and holding the water. But when the paddles come off? You'll feel like someone rowing with a popsicle stick. Your hands seem dumb and ineffectual. We have taken to calling fistgloves the "unpaddles", because after using fistgloves your hands seem smarter, not dumber!

The result of FAS today started out from the humble beginnings when I ventured into the teaching of swimming in Jan 1994 after graduating with my GCE 'O' Levels. In November 1994 when I got my SSA NCAP Technical Level 1 swimming certificate, I was only 16 years old, one of the youngest swimming instructors in Singapore. My main objective as a swim instructor then was to earn a living out of teaching in the field that I have spent so much time in. As an athlete at that time, I have been training in competitive water polo and competitive swimming. Although swimming and water sports were my passion and driving force, coaching had not surfaced as my forte. Like all instructors then, I started work as a lifeguard at Clementi Swimming Complex under the Singapore Sports Council.

I proceeded into my diploma studies while continuing to coach freelance for 3 years. Surprisingly, I found more satisfaction and passion to progress in coaching than in simply training myself to become a better swimmer and athlete. Eventually, I realized that it is not simply the higher income that drives me, but the challenge and contentment coaching provides. This is when it dawns upon me that I should try coaching more professionally. Following that, I started my own swim school known as Elite Tang Swimming Platoon (ETSP) in 1997. This was my first step towards professional coaching today.

The school began by coaching younger athletes and children as my priority. I believe in the traditional saying that a good athlete should always start young. I started by formulating my own methods of teaching in the Learn to Swim programs before bringing the better swimmers I taught into the arena of competitive swimming. With the knowledge and experiences from my previous instructors and coaches, I trained my athletes in the conventional concepts of shear strength and power. The training emphasizes on the using of kickboards, pull bouys and hand paddle. The idea I instill in my athletes then was like what all coaches stand by to: "No pain no gain". The harder you train, the better you should get.

It is only in 1998, after meeting my coaching mentor that I started to revolutionize many of my coaching concepts and methods. My mentor's name is Giam Teck Choon and he started off as my assistant / supervising coach. It is through him that I was gradually convinced that more effective methods other than conventional means of coaching are feasible. There should be more grace than shear strength and power in swimming. He later became my partner and ETSP was renamed Fishlike Aquatic School (FAS). During that time, I was also introduced to Total Immersion (TI) from the first TI book found in book stores. My attention was instantly captured as I was inspired to learn more. Sadly, the workshops were only offered in America at that time and the cost of flying there is way above my means at that time. Thus, I decided to buy the TI video for "Freestyle-the revolutionary way to swim better, faster and easier" and went about practicing on my own.

Through those times, Teck Choon and I researched and tried designing new means of more graceful yet effective swim methods in coaching. Much progress was made with tangible results in athletes under my guidance. Many were able to compete in National age-group level competitive swimming meets while some qualified in for the national team. Unfortunately, my partner had to leave the swim school for personal commitments and his pursue in his own IT business.

My innovations in more graceful yet effective swims continue with valuable results, but not with a break through. I was in a stand still in my ideas of innovative swimming then. In the year 2000, I met my current partner-John Lee Chung Yat. He shared with me his priceless experiences gained from teaching in YMCA-Taipei and his physical education degree from Taiwan. Base on his refreshing concepts, FAS rebounded and continued to reform from her initial stand still. By then, I have been practicing TI for 2 years and had realized that I am swimming more smoothly and gracefully than in my teens. I was among the average swimmers then and could never outshine. Now, even when I may not have been as physically fit as in the past, I surprisingly felt that I could travel much further per stroke than before. I achieved this sensation by becoming more relax while executing my stroke and body roll at a rhythmic time. It simply got better through mindful practice.

Meanwhile, I had been sharing the TI knowledge to my swimmers and experimenting my success during some trainings to observe the outcome. Surprisingly, my athletes picked up the concepts very quickly and were experiencing some of my success after 2 to 3 months of drilling. I eventually signed up for the 1st TI Freestyle Workshop in Nov 2003 in Singapore. In Jan 2004, I flew to Coral Springs Florida to undertake a six day TI Teachers Training and experienced two internships under the TI founder, Terry Laughlin. What truly motivated me during the internship was when one 83 years old participant managed to swim freestyle the fishlike way after the workshop. This assured me that age should not become an obstacle to swimming smoothly and gracefully.

After I returned, I went on to complete two internships with Ria Mackay and Ang Peng Siong. I even decided to return to America for further training for a full month and was attached to the Hawks team (an age group competitive team using TI techniques) while helping out in the running of the TI Four Stroke camp. I also witness the new TI swim Studio in New Paltz, New York.

These events truly inspired me to fine tune and re-formulate the weekend workshops to effectively to accommodate to Singapore needs. This is what today's TI Fishlike Freestyle Workshop (TI FFWS) Part A and B are about. After much observation after the workshops, I strongly felt that if the swimmers were left alone, progress became very limited without guidance from a certified TI coach. Eventually, I came out with a 3 module series known as TI Fishlike Triathlon Swimming Series (FTSS TM). Here, module one to three would guide a swimmer in a systematic approach toward the TI practices to increase mastery in distance and speed.

In year 2006, Fishlike Sports Academy Pte Ltd (FSA) was incorporated and it took over the whole operations of FAS. In 2007, FAS was made a subsidiary company owned by FSA. Now in 2007, FAS was tasked with the job of venturing Total Immersion (TI) Swimming in 5 countries (cities) in Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.