The start of Total Immersion

It’s my second lesson at National Aquatic Centre@Bukit Jalil for TI Level 1 today. Back in lesson one, we were taught on how glide thru the water. Today’s lesson, we learnt about how to skate and basic hand recovery. There’s so much of coordination for the mind to put everything together. But I do starting to feel how each of the element is put together to swim with as little effort as possible.

Things to remember for me from the coach:

• relax my neck and arm
• look downward
• don’t over rotate the body
• hand extend in front of shoulder
• Kicking slow and relax…

Those sound like too much to remember. I better practice hard before the next lesson starts!

New toy for swimming

Part of my journey towards triathlon this year, I’ve just signed up for Total Immersion Swimming Course. It’s a course that supposed to fine tune your free stroke into more efficient, especially useful if you use it during triathlon race.

I read that during this course, they will break down my steps for free stoke and correct every element from floating to paddling. One of the essential equipment is the centre mouth snorkel.

A very interesting piece of equipment which I’ve just discovered. Apparently this will help you to focus on your body gliding technique and rotation even without needing to lift my head to breath.

It looks exactly like a normal snorkel from the mouth-piece, except that the snorkel tube stick out in front of your mouth and trough between the 2 eyes, th3n tilted its way up at the mid section so that it sticks out from the water to allows the swimmer to breath.

I’m all hyped up and can’t wait for my first session to start this Sunday.