About:

The Minneapolis YWCa is our area’s exclusive provider of Total Immersion instruction.  Though swimming is an essential life skill, traditional teaching and coaching methods have made it difficult to master because they teach an awkward, exhausting style of swimming. Total Immersion’s foolproof approach to teaching can help any student master a fluent, beautiful and economical style and bring results far faster than conventional methods.
Our facilities offer:

•    Underwater filming and analysis
•    Three Minneapolis sites and ten certified instructors, including Master Coach Dave Cameron
•    Online scheduling and availability seven days a week
•    Supporting books and DVDs available on site

Services:

Private – Total Immersion instruction is available in several packages, depending on the size, needs, and schedule of the individual or group. TI Packages are for 1-2 people (no extra cost to bring the second swimmer), or a small group of 3-4 people. TI packages include the following:
•    6 lessons, 30-minutes each. Bring a fellow athlete! Lessons are priced the same for one or two people to encourage clients to continue analyzing each other in their inter-lesson practice.
•    ” Introduction and development of the entire Total Immersion freestyle drill series, a sequence of exercises that will help you not only swim faster and longer, but understand the mechanics of the stroke better.
•    Video analysis with our above and underwater cameras.
Touch-up Lessons

Returning clients can take another package or opt for the occasional Touch-up session. This hour-long session includes video analysis, drill review, and pacing work as desired by the client but is only available for clients who have taken a TI package already.

Weekend Workshops – In four 90-minute pool sessions, we’ll teach you a series of 12 thoughtfully-choreographed movements, beginning with simple balance positions and progressing seamlessly to whole-stroke swimming. Each step teaches you an essential skill of efficient, effective swimming.

Pool Sessions:
Saturday Morning is devoted to unlearning wasteful “struggling skills.” We’ll master simple Balance exercises that will teach you how to be effortlessly supported by the water and strikingly increase your ease and efficiency.

Saturday Afternoon, having already shown you how to move through the water with far more economy, we’ll teach you slippery body positions and effortless body rotation with the UnderSwitch drill sequence.

Sunday Morning, we’ll teach you to propel yourself with effortless power by linking your armstrokes to a balanced, slippery, rhythmically-rotating core body, using the Zipperswitch drill sequence.

Sunday Afternoon, you’ll graduate from Human To Fishlike as we transition from drills to swimming with coordination, ease and flow, using the Overswitch and Whole-Stroke sequences.

Classroom Sessions On Saturday, we use video of Fishlike and Human swimmers to show how TI techniques put you in a swimming flow state. On Sunday, we explain how to be your own best coach and swim smart for life. We’ll give you guidance on how to build an effective and enjoyable training program that makes the best use of what you learned at the workshop.

Video Analysis: We’ll tape you underwater on Saturday morning and review it during the Saturday afternoon classroom session. This will show you visually why you’re not swimming as well as you’d like or as well as you could and what are your primary opportunities for improvement. We’ll repeat that process Sunday afternoon to give you a clear sense of what you’ve learned and what your immediate priorities for further learning will be.

The YWCA of Minneapolis is the ONLY place in Minnesota to find TI workshops!

Cost and Registration – Save $50 on a your Weekend Workshop when you mention the YWCA!  To get this discount register by phone at 1-800-609-SWIM (7946) or online at www.totalimmersion.net. Use promotion code YWWEB (or YWCOUP if you saw our ad in Competitor Magazine!); discount only applies to workshops held at a YWCA of Minneapolis facility.  Tuition for a weekend workshop is $495. Registration is done through the Total Immersion website. First find the workshop you want on the Schedule at www.totalimmersion.net. Click on the workshop you want.

TI Triathlon Training – Triathlon swimming requires attention to efficiency and technique often not available in conventional swim lessons or swim practices. Instructors also need to be familiar and experienced with the many differences between pool and open water swimming, and should know the importance of saving energy in the swim for the later tri legs.
Our TI instructors not only have been working consistently with triathletes throughout the year, they also participate in multi-sport events themselves and have taught hundreds of students in swim clinics around Minnesota and the country.
Whether you’re new to swimming or it’s time to start making that a stronger leg of your race, we can help bring you to the next level.
In addition to our private and small group instruction, triathletes may also want to utilize some of the other services offered by our instructors at the YWCA and in partnership with Minnesota Tri Club Among these are:

•    Masters swim practice- Most of our Masters swim classes are taught by Total Immersion professionals.
•    Tri Masters swim practice- Our Tuesday/Thursday Midtown practices are tri-specific and are focused on developing form, endurance, and speed for multisport athletes.
•    Annual FREE open water swim clinic, taught by our Master Instructor, Dave Cameron


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Contact Us:
Phone: Please call our Elite Coaching Office at 612-215-4224
E-mail: please e-mail davidccameron@hotmail.com
Webstie: www.ywcampls.org/ti