Description
Freestyle Weekend Workshop
Los Angeles, CA
February 25-26, 2012
Location: Pierce College, 6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91371
Tuition: $495.00/person
Payment type: Credit Card via paypal.com to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or check to Fiona Laughlin
Contact: For more information or to sign up please contact TI Coach Fiona Laughlin at fi This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Description: Our most comprehensive course - TI classic 2-day weekend workshop, emphasizing core swimming drills to develop sound swimming
mechanics on Saturday, with whole stroke integration and practice guidance on Sunday. Learn to swim freestyle with fluid efficiency, enabling you to swim
your first mile, a faster mile, or more miles. You'll also learn to enjoy healthful swimming more than ever before.
We'll teach you the four key skills of a Fishlike Freestyle:
1. Cooperate with Gravity - Most swimmers fight gravity trying to stay on top of the water. We teach you to find your natural equilibrium by sinking into
weightlessness. Learning to relax into the water breaks the "survival- stroking" cycle, and frees your arms and legs for their best use. Besides, gravity is a
powerful natural force; doesn't it make more sense to use it than fight it?
2. Take the Path of Least Resistance - Once you understand that you must swim through the water -- and mindful that water is almost 800 times denser than
air -- itʼs logical to focus more on how well you streamline than how you pull and kick. We'll teach you to shape yourself to cut through the water like a
torpedo by alternating a right-side-streamline with a left-side-streamline. Each stroke will move you farther and faster with less effort.
3. Swim with your body - Traditional thinking about swimming treats the body as having an “arms department” that pulls you forward and a “legs department”
that pushes you forward. In Fishlike Freestyle, you swim with your whole body, instead of your arms and legs. We'll teach you to propel with a simple 2-beat
kick, relaxed and rhythmic weight shifts, rather than arm-and-leg churning.
4. Breathe easy - We'll also teach you about breathing easily as you swim. No more breathlessness, no worries about choking. The air is free, take all you
need.
SCHEDULE: Our schedule will be as follows (subject to minor revision):
*** Please note this workshop will be held outdoors unless weather prohibits ***
Saturday
Check-in & classroom orientation 9 - 10:15
1st underwater videotaping and group instruction in the pool. 10:30 - 12:30
Lunch break 12:30 - 1:30
Classroom workshop and review of video #1 1:30 - 2:45
Group instruction in the pool 3:00 - 4:30
Sunday
Group instruction in the pool. 9 - 10:30 am
Classroom 11 - 12
Lunch 12 - 1
Group instruction in the pool and 2nd underwater videotaping 1 - 3
Brief break to shower, change & walk back to classroom by 3:25
Classroom wrap-up and review of video #2 3:30 - 4:30
WHAT TO BRING:
For the classroom: Medical Release form & Easy Freestyle Users Guide that we send to you for download.
For the pool: An extra suit & towel if you want dry ones for the afternoon swim, an extra pair of goggles – mirrored goggles are best, but tinted would be good,
too. Waterproof sun block, rash guard or sun shirt (if you burn easily), SPF lip protection. We recommend that male students wear a Speedo-type brief or
close-fitting triathlon swim shorts, rather than loose-fitting swim trunks, which can make balance even more of a challenge.
DIRECTIONS: Visit the Pierce College website here: http://www.piercecollege.edu/ and download the Pierce College map to see where the pool and parking are.
PARKING: Permits must be purchased for parking on-campus, or you can park on the street near the campus. Daily metered permit is $2. For info on permit parking on-campus read here: http://www.piercecollege.edu/pierce_map.asp
From the Pierce College website: "All parking is by valid parking permits, which may be purchased at the Pierce Business Office, or paid parking meters in Parking Lot 7. A valid parking permit must be displayed at all times the vehicle is parked in a college parking lot throughout the semester. Permit hangers should be hung so that the colored side faces the windshield. The purchase of a parking permit allows for use of the College parking lots but does not guarantee a parking space."
TRANSFER / CANCELLATION POLICY: NO REFUND will be issued for cancellations LESS THAN 7 days prior to the scheduled workshop unless a doctorʼs note can be provided. For cancellations at least 10 days prior to the scheduled workshop, participants have the option of transferring to another workshop or a 50% refund.
FYI: Cancellation policies are strict due to the personal & substantial financial risk involved on the coach's part in holding these workshops as a result of the coach's travel arrangements and expenses, the contract with the pool facility, and the fact that we only allow a small number of people into the class, so each registrant is important to the feasibility of holding the workshop. All workshops are organized by individual certified TI coaches not by TI Inc, thus all TI coaches take on personal financial risk in holding these workshops, thus each TI coach establishes their own cancellation policies. Generally speaking, the further a coach travels to hold workshops, the greater the personal financial risk, the stricter the cancellation policy, so it varies from place to place and coach to coach. Please contact Fiona Laughlin at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it directly to discuss details and options.
