Terry Laughlin's Blog, page 33

Barry Shore: How Total Immersion Changed My Life

See higlights from a Total Immersion Swimming Camp in Coral Springs, FL with images of training, sights, and group photos.

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0:01 – Video of Barry Shore getting into the pool and swimming

0:30 – Barry talks about the neurological disease that almost ended his life

2:30 – Barry talks about how Total Immersion swimming changed everything

4:24 – Barry talks about how the Total Immersion method allows you to become one with the water

7:00 – Barry  talk about swimming 1000 in 3 years while being bound to a wheel chair

Total Immersion runs the world’s best swimming camps. See the highlights of a Coral Springs camp in 2006, with photography and editing by Fiona Laughlin.

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Turn the Total Immersion Way – DVD Introduction

Total Immersion teaches you the most efficient turns and starts in this video by head coach Terry Laughlin

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0:01 – Starts and Turns

0:08 – Shots of Terry Laughlin doing starts and turns in a pool

0:32 – Improve Your Pushoffs

1:18 – Improve your Turns

In this video Total Immersion Instructor Terry Laughlin explains the vital techniques for executing starts/pushoffs and turns. Watch as Terry breaks both down into their component steps

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Synchronized Strokes: Total Immersion’s “5-Day Miracle” Classes

See how quickly a Total Immersion workshop can transform your swimming stroke. Join us at one of our “5-Day Miracle” classes!

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0:01 – Learn Perpetual-Motion Freestyle at one of our “5-Day Miracle”: Classes

0:10 – video of swimmers having learned the Perpetual-Motion Freestyle

Watch the results of one of Total Immersion’s “5-Day Miracle” classes where they teach ordinary people their “Perpetual Motion Freestyle” stroke. Sign up for a class near you!

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Part 4 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 4 Terry Laughlin teaches how to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon by taking the path of least resistance

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0:01 – Path of Least Resistance

0:20 – The Proper Degree of Rotation

1:05 – The Spinal Stabilizers

2:25 – Proper Arm Extension

3:51 – Wave Drag: Why you Need to Lengthen your Body with your Arm

5:15 – Drilling the Arm Extension

6:10 – The Importance of Stability

8:20 – The Superman Glide

9:05 – Shots of Terry in Open Water

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines taking the path of least resistance, proper arm extension, lengthening your body with arm extension and the importance of stability

 

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Part 8 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 8 Terry Laughlin teaches how to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon by tuning your 2-beat kick

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0:01 – Tuning your 2-Beat Kick

0:55 – The Streamline Position

3:30 – The Work Cycle versus the Rest Cycle

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines tunng your 2-beat kick and compressing the work cycle while expanding you rest cycle

  

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Part 7 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 7 Terry Laughlin teaches how to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon by channeling your energy forward

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0:01 – Channel your Energy Forward

0:20 – Hand is Relaxed

2:05 – The loose relaxed circle of the elbow

5:20 – Stroke Length (SL) X Stroke Rate (SR) = Velocity (V)

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines the relaxation of the hand, the loose relaxed circle of the elbow and how a high stroke rate will increase your speed

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Part 6 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 6 Terry Laughlin teaches how to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon by learning to swim with your body

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0:01 – Learn to Swim With Your Body

0:14 – The Right Recovery Angle for the Hand

1:15 – Steep Entry Converts DOWNWARD Weight Shift into FORWARD Thrust

3:00 – Continous Switches

3:40 – Easy Freestyle with arm out of the water

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines Learning to swim with you body and how steep arm entry gets converted into better forward thrust.

 

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Part 5 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

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Part 3 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 3 Terry Laughlin teaches how to be weightless in the water by cooperating with gravity

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0:01 – Learn to be Weightless

0:20 – The Superman Glide

1:56 – The Laser Lead

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines learning to be weightless with two techniques; The Superman glide and the laser lead

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Part 2 – How to ‘Work Less, Swim Better’ in Triathlon

In part 2 Terry explains the difference between “Perpetual-Motion Swimming” and “Human Swimming”

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0:01 – Perpetual-Motion Swimming vs. Human Swimming

0:44 – Use extending arm to cut a hole in the water

1:30 – Use lead hand to hold your place in the water

2:20 – TI coaches and friends swim in open water

Total Immersion’s Terry Laughlin explains to triathletes the advantages of his Perpetual-Motion Freestyle stroke in open-water swimming: In this video he examines Perpetual-Motion Swimming vs. Human swimming as well as showing how the Perpetual-Motion technique translates into open water

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