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TI Swimmers invited to make a Lifesaving Difference by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Aug 17, 2009

I swim almost daily and get a regular checkup with my doctor (though perhaps not annually). However I've been among those guilty of giving blood at far less frequent intervals than I should. So here is my pledge to donate three pints a year so that - should I ever need to make a withdrawal - I'll know I've done my part to keep the national blood bank flush. Please join me.

Swim well -- Live well,

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VIDEO: Interview from Lake Placid Ironman 2009 by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Aug 11, 2009

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NEW VIDEO - Perpetual Motion Freestyle - Presentation from New England Multisport Expo by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jul 29, 2009

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 PART 3

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 PART 4

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PART 5

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PART 6

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Learning to Swim - My Favorite Poem by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jul 20, 2009

 
Tom Wilberding brought this to my attention. This is the most eloquent evocation I've ever read of the gift that continues to give. Find it in July/Aug 2009 edition of Poetry magazine.

 

Learning to swim

BY BOB HICOK

At forty-eight, to be given water,

which is most of the world, given life

in water, which is most of me, given ease,

 

which is most of what I lack, here, where walls

don’t

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Teach your Mind first, then your Muscles by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jul 18, 2009



Shinji Takeuchi, head coach of TIJapan, has posted a 2:00 video on youtube showing surface and underwater, frontand side, slow-motion and normal speed views of his stroke. Before long it’slikely that Shinji’s freestyle stroke will have received a million or moreviews. There are two reasons for this: (1) It displays what people instantly recognizeas a “fishlike” grace, flow and ease rarely seen

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How to "Rehearse Success" before an Ironman (or Any Open Water) Swim by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jul 10, 2009

 
 
 
This is taken from an email exchange with Steve Eldred, one of the most determined athletes I've met. A fall from a balcony 20 years ago left Steve with a disabled left arm, yet he completed the Lake Placid Ironman in 2008 and is now preparing for his second. In 2008, he struggled to finish the 2.4-mile swim, emerging from Mirror Lake in 2 hrs 20 min as the last swimmer in. He felt ill much of

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Why Swim a Marathon by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jun 25, 2009

 

This follows and amplifies my previous blog touting the greater health benefits of endurance swimming compared to endurance running. It's excerpted from the final chapter of my next book, Outside the Box, a TI guide to open water swimming, to be released in early July.

Chapter 26 Marathon Swimming: The first mile is the hardest

 

Do you have a Personal Everest? For many people, that might be

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Marathon swimming (healthy, holistic) vs.marathon running (ouch) by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jun 25, 2009


Lately the NY Times has showed an unprecedented interest in marathon running publishing features, columns and blogs practically every day . I could understand that if the NYC Marathon were happening in the next week or so,  but it's five months off. Maybe they think huge numbers of readers are suddenly contemplating running 26.2 miles. 
 
But I also find considerable irony in the fact that most of

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How to PRACTICE Easy Freestyle (TI Workshop Handout) by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jun 24, 2009


Here is the second handout Bob Wiskera distributes at the Weekend Workshops he leads.  This provides advice for troubleshooting after learning the Easy Freestyledrills.
 

What comes next? Some thoughts on Post-Workshop Practice.
Now that you've been exposed to how it feels to swim freestyle with more ease and efficiency, you may experience the "it doesn't feel like it did during the Workshop"

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How to LEARN Easy Freestyle (TI Workshop Handout) by Terry Laughlin

Posted on Jun 24, 2009

 

 
TI Coach Bob Wiskera prepared this as a handout for the first day of TI Weekend Workshops he leads.  If you've taken a workshop, this should serve as a helpful reminder. If you're teaching yourself with the aid of the Easy Freestyle DVD, it can help organize your thinking and planning.
 
Hearing is forgetting
Seeing is Remembering
Doing is Understanding

 

Your Workshop Goals
1. Break old

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