Total Immersion Easy Freestyle Workshop and Open Water Clinic
Eden Prairie Community Center • 16700 Valley View Rd Eden Prairie, MN 55346 Organized by Swimprovement - A Total Immersion CompanyAbout this event
Total Immersion Swimming Clinics have educated, inspired, and improved swimmers for over 30 years. Any level of swimmer with comfort in the water can benefit from out world-renown teaching method.
DESCRIPTION: This clinic is appropriate for any ability level with a reasonable comfort in the water. This two-day course takes you through the following, and concludes with an open water clinic at Lake Nokomis, site of the Minneapolis Triathlon and the YWCA Minneapolis Women's Triathlon (not associated with this event)
1.0 for the TI foundation- drills and skills to correct all of the stroke faults and habits that keep athletes from swimming smoothly without effort. We’ll get and in-depth progression towards a stroke the offers continuing possibilities for improvement, and move through skill work to finish the day finding efficient, effortless stroke segments.
2.0 With the foundation established on day 1, we’ll continue fine-tuning skill sets in breathing, two beat kick, propulsion, recovery, and more. We’ll film from multiple angles above and underwater in both pool sessions, so there will be extensive video analysis and post-workshop focus lists for each swimmer. All film clips will be available on a private dropbox folder.
Our coaches are some of the most active Total Immersion Directors and has worked with athletes from complete beginner to professional triathlete.
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 — it’s 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.
Event details and schedule
SCHEDULE: Our schedule will be as follows (subject to minor revision):
10:30 Check-in on deck
10:30 – 11:30 Orientation and foundational instruction
11:30 – 1:30 1st underwater video and group instruction in the pool.
1:30-2:30 Classroom workshop and review of video #1.
2:30-4:30 Group instruction in the pool
Sunday
8-10:00 Group instruction in the pool
10:00-11 Class video review
11:00-12:00 break and move to Lake Nokomis for open water clinic
12:00-2:00 Open water clinic