By Louis Tharp
Inflexible ankles plus poor kick are not remedied with high hips.
That’s like getting gay marriage out of Lawrence v Texas. It might happen, but it’ll take a long time and there are easier ways.
Louis,
Can …
By Louis Tharp
This doesn’t work for everybody. It has a high frustration quotient. Not as high as understanding quadratic equations, but similar in that there are two unknowns:
1. Whether a person can transfer the benefits of the drill …
I just put up a new post on my website about looking back on your victories over the last year or so and then moving forward into 2011. While the post is not centered around swimming or Total Immersion, the …
By Louis Tharp
Kurt Grote was the walk-on Stanford breast stroker who won gold as part of the 400 meter medley relay team in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He didn’t start swimming until he was 15, and only to control his …
By Louis Tharp
Hi Bill:
Thanks for writing and for over-rotating.Without over-rotators coaches would be forced to work as investment bankers, and after the first hundred million where’s the fun?
Question:
Lou, when I first began learning TI, three years …
So, in the last few weeks, I have been using an analogy with all of my Total Immersion clients that seems to work well.
The background: Once we get past basic balance drills like Superman Glide, Laser Lead Flutter, skating …
By Louis Tharp
There was a team in the pool yesterday afternoon. It was us. And once again the three of us were participating in the energy transfer that produces fast swimmers from smart people who respect nuance and ignore …
By Louis Tharp
It’s hard to see exactly how using high hips for propulsion actually works, unless you time this 100-yard drill and see that the 5’10" swimmer is not even breathing hard after turning in a 1:18 at …
By Louis Tharp
Ok, high-maintenance swimmer, this blog’s about you. I’m not going to spend blog words talking about the novice swimmer who started on the stone skipper drill and did pretty well. You alredy know how to do the …
I just did a one hour running time trial on the treadmill this morning (it’s getting cold in NJ) and I couldn’t be happier! I have been following the Dr. Maffetone MAF Heart Rate formula (180-age + 5) and have …