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TI Weekend Workshops

A TI Workshop is the best swimming instruction on earth. Former strugglers - even those who have been frustrated for years - realize immediate and dramatic improvement in their comfort, control and efficiency after just a few hours of our transformational instruction. The increase in swimming satisfaction is limitless!

Can I Benefit From A TI Workshop?
Ask yourself three questions:

Do you enjoy swimming thoroughly - i.e. feel good in the water and overall satisfaction?
Do you understand how to improve- not guesswork, but practical knowledge?
Are you progressing steadily toward greater efficiency, enjoyment and understanding?

If you can't answer YES to all three questions, a TI Workshop will teach you to swim with comfort and confidence, and to practice the right stuff in the right way to continue improving for life.

How good a swimmer do I need to be?
If you're a non-swimmer or have fear of water, we suggest you order our Happy Laps DVD or seek instruction from one of our certified instructors. But if your progress has stagnated, if you feel frustrated or directionless, if you've had poor experiences with swim instruction…if you'd simply like to feel competent and confident, WE CAN HELP!

And even if you think of yourself as a pretty decent swimmer, we can energize your swimming and help you enjoy it far more. Experienced and accomplished swimmers tell us they learned more in two days of TI instruction than in 10 years of traditional training.

A TI Workshop isn't a band-aid for your swimming. It's the world's best concentrated course in smart, effective swimming. You'll head home with a solid plan and practical tools for self-improvement, and a passion for purposeful practice that you can hardly imagine until you've experienced it.

Do I Need To Get In Shape First?
Some of our students wonder whether they need extra training prior to the workshop. Absolutely not - though it can be beneficial to practice basic balance drills to 30 minutes to a few hours prior to the workshop. Upon receiving your registration, we send a preliminary video and handbook with tips on how to prime your mind and muscles.

More Questions? Our Instructors have the answers.
If you need help or guidance in making your decision please call 612-215-4224 and ask to talk to one of our expert instructors.

TI Workshop at a Glance

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.