TI Friends:

Welcome to another issue of Total Swim. You’ll find a new pictorial feature in this issue that I’m tremendously excited about. I welcome your feedback on how useful you find that.

TI TV to debut this weekend
Another addition to the TI web site has us excited as well – the debut of TI TV. Because visual information makes swimming skills much easier to grasp than text info, the combination of the pictorial features with streaming video is a really important advance for us. We’re launching TI TV with a selection of five brief videos, ranging in length from 90 seconds to about five minutes, with our video player to be launched over the weekend. The first five video selections will be:

Happy Laps – a quick glimpse of the ground-breaking new TI video for non-swimmers and beginners. Learn how any swimmer can become completely comfortable in the water.
Freestyle Made Easy – An overview of the FME video released in December, showing the skills taught in each of the four Lessons. Learn how any swimmer can swim Freestyle better than you ever dreamed possible.
Finding Comfort Swimming – This video, shot mainly in an Endless Pool at the 2002 Hawaiian Ironman in Kona, illustrates how you can swim for fitness and lifelong well being with Total Immersion.
The Secrets of Freestyle – A specially edited collection of clips from Freestyle Made Easy, showing the secrets that allow anyone to swim with ease and efficiency.
The TI Buddy System – Another specially edited collection of clips from Freestyle Made Easy, which illustrates our groundbreaking partnered-learning approach. Learn how you can become your own best swim coach – or anyone else's.


Tell us what TI book you want next.
Next, I’d like to invite your suggestions on the next book you’d like us to publish. I’ve been busy for months with the production and release of our Freestyle Made Easy and Happy Laps videos, but now it’s time to turn to work on my next book, but I’d like to prioritize information that YOU are hungry for. I’ve received a request for a TI “advanced” book for those who’ve been successful in the “learning” stage of TI and are now ready to focus more on training and racing the TI way. So what kind of guidance, content or focus would you vote for in the next book from TI. What questions do you most want answered at this point in your swimming development. Send your requests and suggestions to terry@totalimmersion.net. Thanks.


New Workshop Programs
Following on the release of our Happy Laps video/DVD for beginning swimmers and non-swimmers, and the Four Strokes Made Easy DVD for “well-rounded” and competitive swimmers, we will offer new workshops this summer to teach the content in those videos.

Happy Laps Workshop This will be a 2-day weekend program conducted in shallow, warm, “cozy” surroundings with a strong focus on learning to be comfortable in the water, learning to breathe freely and easily in water, and progressing to acquiring a sense of floating effortless – in other words, basic balance. This workshop is intended for anyone who feels uncomfortable or insecure in the water, is unable to swim more than a few strokes, is made fearful by deep water (or is even hydrophobic about shallow water), or has never been able to swim and breathe. We guarantee you’ll complete the workshop with the confidence and skill to begin swimming multiple laps. This will also prepare the non-swimmer to progress to learning the whole freestyle stroke in a TI Weekend Workshop or by self-coaching with our Freestyle Made Easy DVD. Watch for more info and schedules in coming issues of Total Swim.

All Four Strokes Workshop This summer we will not conduct the weeklong Kids Camps that we held the past seven summers. Instead, we will offer the same instruction in a more condensed and concentrated manner in an extended-weekend (Fri thru Sun) All Four Strokes workshop. These work-shops will be open to age group and school swimmers, to adult swimmers and particularly to families. Watch for more info and schedules in coming issues of Total Swim.

Swim for Health and Happiness,
Terry Laughlin