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Now we didn't plan this, we were shooting video of me and then it
happened there was a guy in the background.
Who is in there and allows you to kind of get a sense
what you saw from above in rough water, underwater it looks like this
even in rough water 'cause this
the turbulence is all on the surface. So as long as I do these things that you see
me do here.
So as you watch my right hand go in here,
what you're going to see me do with the right hand
is separate water molecules and then line up the right side of my body
to fit through the hole I make with my right arm.
The guy next to me is never making that hole, his hand goes in the water and
starts pulling. He's doing human swimming,
he's pulling and kicking and all he's thinking about is pulling and
kicking. Whereas I'm thinking about my right hand got to go in,
separate molecules and then I'm going to line up the rest of my body
to fit through that hole that my right arm cuts. And then you watch the
left arm, also notice the difference in bubbles.
Right arm slides through, body follows it through that line. Left arm cuts through, left side
follows it through. And you see the path that his hands follow, there's no cutting of a
path.
I could see me lengthen the body, keep the body long streamlined and balanced
legs are streamlined.
Hand is patient about finding the grip, the palm is always back.
The fingers are always down, lets back it up again,
back it up a little bit so we can watch
in particular
what the palm does.
And this is just one of those things, there's never a time
that my hand this in the water were palms not facing back.
From the moment the hand goes in,the fingers are down, and the palm is backed.
Because as long as the palm back if I apply any pressure,
the result and force moves me forward.
If you look at other people there is
tremendous amount of time where the hand is going back
with palm facing somewhere other than back,
so it's an idea of one of those consequential things.
And this is a group of the TI coaches swimming in a what we call a swimming
pelathon,
and this is the kind of thing that causes a lot of distraction,
anxiety and so on for people when they're in this kind of a
crowd. And what we're showing here is, we spend a lot of time... that's me
second from the left over here, but they're all coaches my two daughters are
getting squeezed up by me there.
And this is with two of my training partners, also the TI Coaches. And again you
could see what I showed you with Shinji that there's a form. This is a stroke
that's been arrived out through a lot of thought
and analysis
of how to be efficient. Another group of the people I swim with up in New
Paltz,
they're not all
TI Coaches but you can see that they all
have the same stroke.
The guys in the middle are both TI Coaches
but the two on the outside are not.
And you know this is just a group of people at one of our camps in the
Bahamas, but you can see an absence of the kind of stuff you usually see in a
Triathlon field, which is a lot of splashing,
lot of churning. They're just people practicing calm swimming
and swimming together.