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  1. “I felt very well guided. I would like to do a podcast, and I hope to be a fraction as good as you are when I do it. So, well, yeah, I would like to offer all your podcast listeners of seven day free trial of our online swim academy, where there's a tremendous amount of information and you will have access to every bit of it, including streaming video and ebooks and all kinds of information. It's all free. Everything we have produced is available. And all they have to do is go to total immersion academy dot com forward slash Tim TotalImmersion Academy dot com forward slash Tim to learn more and take advantage of that offer.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “water back but by using your arms to lengthen your body you're promoting two things a lower drag profile and a complete movement you're focused on completing the movement a lot of people think about finishing the stroke back by the hip finish it to the front instead the third is the what Which is you cannot go wrong by kicking less. Just always keep that in mind. You cannot go wrong by kicking less. Kicking is a great way to burn energy and a great way to create drag. It's a very poor way to create propulsion. So those would be, oh, and one more, one more. Anything you do more quietly is more effective and efficient. So whatever you're doing at a given moment in the next lap strive to do it more quietly and it will be better. So align your head, lengthen your body, kick less, swim more quietly for action items.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yeah, so action item and I would suggest that you don't swim long distances while trying these. If you can swim anywhere from Just about five strokes to a half a lap and feel that you're doing it. That's good. You don't have to leave one end with an feeling that you're obligated to go to the other end. So the very first of these would be hang or align your head. Most important, the most fundamental thing, the first thing we always teach is hang or align your head. You could visualize perhaps that there's a toe line attached to the top of your head pulling your spine directly forward while you do everything, the stroking part of it that your spine is always moving forward. So get your head aligned would be number one. Number two, use your arms to lengthen your body not to push water back. You're still going to push.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “And it also helps pull together the pieces in terms of integrating your stroke, just that timing is one of the things stopping the kick which is interrupting your natural rhythm, but also having that timing in your arms naturally promotes an integrated technique that where all the parts of work ingett together.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “So four of the five principles were illustrated by that one thing. And you know the same thing with your hand swapping. What you were accomplishing there was a pull that was a little more patient, a little slower probably, but you were using your arms to reduce strength.”

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  6. “Push me forward. All right. And principle number five, as you said. Oh, principle number four, strive for a sleeker vessel. So rather than focusing on propulsion and a bigger, bigger, stronger kick, you use the smaller, lighter kick and it really worked”

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  7. “Well, the toe flick illustrates three other principles that I just mentioned. Human swimmers are energy wasting machines. So what are you focusing on with a toeflake instead of leg churn saving energy? And principle number two, most of what we know about swimming is wrong. What did you know about swimming before you learned TI? What did you know about the kick?”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “When I finish with the five principles, I'll just mention three or four simple action items for the next time you go to the pool, but strive for a sleeker vessel. It's a universally unquestioned truth among naval architects and scientists who study fish. So why should it be different for your body? And then finally strive to swim in a way that you use your body as a whole. Resist any suggestions someone tells you to just pull or kick or separate the pull and kick into your training. Strive for a seamlessly integrated movement that is based in the core. So those are five first principles worth listening to again and writing down, I think.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Something, or Tim asked him to go to the pool with them in a four foot shallow area. And you experience something thereby that works, then trust in your own intuition about things and don't feel that you have to believe what you hear from authoritative sources. Principle number three, it's obvious that efficiency is not natural for humans. Inefficiency is natural, but is entirely learnable, as Tim discovered in the period of eight weeks where he went from swimming 20 yards in a pool and being exhausted to swimming a mile in the ocean. It's learnable. Anyone, anyone can learn to swim with great efficiency and then improve on it continuously by applying the principles of mastery, including Love the Plateau. Principle number four. You want to swim with more ease or more efficiency, think about what you can do to make your vessel sleeker.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “We're only 3% efficient. 97% of their energy was going into something other than locomotion. So as a human swimmer, you are naturally an energy wasting machine. And in everything you do, focus on saving energy before you focus on increasing fitness. That goes back to what Bill Boomer said, conditioning something that happens while you build refiner and print skills. So that's principle number one. Principle number two, most of what we know about swimming is wrong. All our primal instincts about swimming lead us astray and most of what we hear are not helpful. So you really have to exercise critical thinking. If someone suggests you try something and it doesn't seem to work, well, maybe it wasn't a good idea. If they suggest you try something.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “And some principles. I always like to go back to first principles for as the basis for anything that matters, anything we care about doing well. And so I'll share five first principles of intelligent improvement-oriented swimming. First is to recognize that as a human swimmer, you are an energy wasting machine. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in designing a swimfoil for the Navy SEALs back in 2005, they did an efficiency estimation for a group of lap swimmers. These were not tutored or coat swimmers, but people who think they're pretty okay. They swim laps a lot. And they found their...”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “I think there's just a lot of built in Resistance to change in the world of swimming, as there are in many places. And they believe what matters is how many laps you do and how strong you're pulling kick is. They persist in believing that. And so what is the first thing you learn when you take your beginner's lesson is how to kick and how to pull. And that's really putting the cart before the horse if you're not comfortable in the water.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “It's a crazy thing. No one else is still teaching this way. We've been doing it for 30 years with incredible success. And we're still the only ones teaching this way. Why is that?”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “In the midst of that TV production and knowing what I know about your hunger to learn new things, I just had always assumed, because, you know, we were friends from a distance and we met for dinner in San Francisco one time, but we were friends from a distance with periodic contacts when you wanted to make another mention. Thank you of total immersion in one of your books. When I arrived in Hawaii, I was so impressed to see how strong your hunger remained to improve your swimming. And I thought, you know, it's not a box he wanted to check off at all. He really cares about this. So I saw that and I was really impressed and happy about that.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Tim, it was for me as well, and I really feel the need to say this, but that I, you know, knowing all you have on your plate and especially.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Probably 16 months now. I haven't experienced any anxiety. I haven't experienced any depression. I wake up. I still wake up every morning fired up to do what I'm going to do that day, which today is your podcast.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “bit of anxiety to the point where it was out of control and I sought treatment for anxiety which I had never thought I would ever need in my life So the first six to eight months were like that but then with the help of the anti-anxiety medication I'm on lexipro and abilify and I don't mind admitting it, it's worked It's enabled me to reclaim who I always was, which is a person who's driven by a purpose and the purpose is to change the way people swim. I mean literally to change the way swimming is taught and practiced in this world I've always had such a powerful sense of purpose and I wake up with that sense of purpose every day and and I have to say that in the past”

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  18. “Yeah, I went through a roller coaster the first six to eight months afterward where first I felt sorry for myself and then the news kept getting worse like I didn't find out that I had the worst variety of prostate cancer right away it took a while for the failure of my hormone treatment failed in two months The cancer started growing again and they usually look for two years of cancer suppression from that and you know my oncologist I said to be straight with me on this doc and he said it's the far side of bad news So you know I was going through a roller coaster where the news kept getting more sobering and I was feeling anger, anxiety not depression ever never yeah never never depression but but I felt quite a bit”

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  19. “Now. But it's a very nasty form of cancer and typically 24 to 30 months survival time after you are diagnosed. So that was pretty sobering news.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “Because they overtreated for quite a while. But in my case, it was clear that I needed to get treatment. I went to, I found a surgeon to do a robotic radical robotic prostaticomy. It's called a Da Vinci surgery and was scheduled for surgery. But beforehand, he said to get some scans done. And one of the scans showed that I was already in stage four, that the cancer had already metastasized to my bone. So no surgery. Since then, it's been treated as systemic. So it's two years since I had diagnosis. And this variety of cancer I have is called metastatic castration resistant cancer, which is sort of a nasty term. It just means that the first treatment they give you is hormones, and the hormones are meant to suppress testosterone. So I have the testosterone of a 66-year-old woman.”

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  21. “Blois Blobar Sopa. And just an incredible swim, one of the best swims in my life. And so I came home and within a week of coming home, I had my annual physical. And my doctor found some irregularities when he examined my prostate and he said, you need to get a biopsy from a urologist. I went very quickly to get the biopsy and the biopsy turned out to be positive for cancer. And it was what's called a Gleason score of four plus three or seven. And what's significant about that is the number four indicates how aggressive the cancer is. And four indicated it was an aggressive cancer. So it was one that needed to be treated a lot of times today. What they try to do is just watch and wait as much as possible.”

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  22. “Yeah, yeah. Just about two years ago, I went with two friends to Sardinia. And we swam from Corsica, which is in France, to Sardinia, and I had an unbelievably great swim. I had been not training exceptionally hard for it. It's a 10-mile swim. The water temperature was 64, 65. And it took us four and a half hours. And that was stopping every 30 minutes. So there were seven stops to have a feed, which happened to be blueberry soup, one of my co-swarmers was from Sweden and brought”

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  23. “He called that pressing the T because the T was the intersection of your spine and if you stretch your arms out to the side, that's where you”

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  24. “Yeah, yeah, we teach it today. We call it torpedo, but we do it without the flutter kick. But essentially, you put your arms at your sides and you glide with your head in line with your spine, kicking gently and lean a little bit on your chest and what you feel is your hips and legs become lighter. They're lifted by a lever effect, you know, a lever effect of leaning, what's the most buoyant part of your body is your chest. You've got Your lungs in there that hold six liters of air. That's the most buoyant part of the body. And so when you lean, it's like pressing. A volleyball into the water, press down on a volleyball, it's going to push back. So if you keep pressing, it's going to push back somewhere else and it lifts up your hips and legs.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  25. “The tea, excuse me, he called it pressing the tea, where you would have your arms at your sides and be flutter kicking with your head in line with your spine and lean on your chest as you do. So I did that and I had spent 25 years thinking I had the misfortune to be born with heavy legs. It's a bad thing as a swimmer to be born with heavy legs. And I spent a quarter century thinking I was doomed. And in 10 seconds doing this drill, that whole concept was exploded because my legs were light and I never realized that I could do something to change that.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “I got into once I have to step back a little bit and talk about how my mind was open to how much potential improvement was available to me that I had not realized at all. Going back to Bill Boomer, after I heard him talk at that clinic, I drove up to Rochester to watch him coach and see him put into practice the things he talked about and pick his brain. And one of the things that he talked about was that the keystone skill of swimming was balanced. Now, I had never even heard of balance as a skill of swimming, and he was saying it was the keystone to efficiency. So he talked about balance during the clinic thing. And then when I went up, I said, Bill, would you teach me something about balance? So he taught me a drill that he called pressing the buoy or pressing.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  27. “Yes, video, very helpful tool for anything movement orient. There has never been a time that I have been videotaped that I was satisfied with what I saw to this day. But, you know, If I can cite my own experience because I've been my own total immersion coach all along.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  28. “I'd say, first of all, not everybody is as good as he is or as you were at self-coaching. So he started out, he did start out with some coaching, but it was just two days of coaching. And then 18 months on his own. I suppose he probably had probably pretty well acquainted with his body for whatever reason. That's one thing. But the second thing is he. Followed through on practicing the drills very patiently, very attentively until he really understood them and constantly refined his form in the drills and then taking whatever he learned from the drills and putting it into hole stroke practice. He probably gave not a moment's thought to speed or how far he was swimming. I'll bet he did what you did, Tim, which was to only practice for as long as he felt the practice was fruitful.”

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  29. “A year and a half on his own. And I became what that stimulated in me was a curiosity. When someone shows absolutely no knack for something, how did they get that good? That was something that really intrigued me.”

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  30. “It became clear that he was the person who had attended, you know, who had been at such a challenge whom were 18 months earlier in Chapel Hill. And not only that, but he was a soybean farmer. He had previously worked in a management position and then became a gentleman farmer after retiring from that. But he farmed soybeans in coastal North Carolina. And he was 25 miles from the nearest pool. So in that intervening 18 months, I mean, everybody we teach improves, okay? So that's not the standard. It's just my mind was blown by the degree to which he improved. And then I found out he did it entirely on his own. He had no other resources or help or anything. And, you know, it was just driving himself to the YMCA 25 miles away and did it.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  31. “And butterfly correct, and they didn't have to do four strokes, but they could do any number of the four that they wanted. And we videotaped everybody in the first session to get a before picture, any of the strokes that you wanted. And while we were videotaping freestyle, one of these camp participants swam the most In unbelievably beautiful freestyle, at the level of our best coaches, that sort of grace and fluency and ease. And so, you know, after a word, I said, where did you learn that? And he said, from you”

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  32. “I think I think maybe 1999. I did a workshop in Chapel Hill. We had maybe 20 attendees. And we had one in particular who was the most challenged student that I had yet seen. He did what Sarah did during our first videotaping, thrashed about five strokes and stood up. To breathe, and that was it. And by the end of the two-day workshop on Sunday afternoon, it was a triumph for him to navigate one length of the pool continuously with a hybrid between drilling and swimming. It wasn't even a whole stroke. So fast forward 18 months and I'm teaching what we call a Kaizen camp in Florida. And it's a four-stroke camp if you want to learn all four strokes. Four-stroke speakers.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  33. “With it, just enjoyed going to the gym every day. They did things that brought them pleasure in the moment. So I think pleasure in the moment is really important. And the other thing is you've got to be really engaged with it If I see people on the aerobic equipment at my gym, what do I see? Well, some of them are reading books and disassociating from what they're doing. And others are really paying attention to what they're doing. They may be using an elliptical machine or a running treadmill or something for the umpteenth time, but they're still finding details about how they use that machine that are worth their attention.”

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  34. “One of the most important is simply the goal of enjoying it today if I'm going to work out for an hour. My goal is to enjoy my hour of workout. At the beginning of the year, health clubs all overseas see a flock of people signing up and they sign up far more people than they can actually serve because they know that about two-thirds of them are going to not use their membership. They're going to start out with all a fire and then lose it and stop going to the gym. And there's been a pretty authoritative study that showed the main difference between the people who continued using their membership and those who did not was that those who stopped using their membership had in mind some benefit they might receive in six months time while the people who use their membership and stay.”

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  35. “Yeah, well, I think there's a couple of things. I think one of the things you want to do is give them enough of the right sort of information about the foundations of excellence in what they have taken up, that they become curious to learn more. So first you need to stimulate their curiosity. And eventually you get to what I hope for everyone I teach I hope becomes passionate curiosity where you move from curiosity to being really intrigued to wanting to really solve this to becoming passionate about it and it's that hierarchy. You've got to love what you're doing. And there's a good deal of evidence about what causes people to love what they're doing.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  36. “52 years. I was still learning things that thrilled me. I was still getting insights about my own stroke that were literally thrilling. And they were coming at really, really long intervals And so having read George Leonard long before I was in my 60s, I was really prepared for that eventuality.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  37. “And the easiest skills we learn pretty rapidly. And then things start to slow down. And then things may slow down to the point where you only experience a breakthrough every six to 12 months or so. And George Leonard wrote that when you practice with guided by the principles of mastery, there is always positive change taking place at the cellular level below your threshold of awareness and that periodically this change consolidates into a thrilling leap forward, which was very much my own experience. I proved it to myself with my own experience where by the time I had been swimming 50 years, in other words, I'm in my mid-60s and I've really been swimming 50 years, maybe even 51.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  38. “And that we should embrace these challenges. And, you know, something you've done for many years, Tim, that we should embrace these challenges. And if we apply certain behaviors, we're going to experience a lot more success. And so the behaviors he cited were, first of all, always be focused on improving the skill itself. And anytime you are doing it, you're focused on improving the skill. The amount of time you spend, what your heart rate is or any of that is secondary to doing things that improve the skill. A second is to focus on weak points. Don't focus on your strengths. A third, and I really love this one. This one is my favorite, is to love the plateau in anything we learn. We initially, as we're working our way through the most basic,”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  39. “Yeah, sometime in the 1990s someone brought to my attention a magazine article he had written for, I believe Esquire, in the late 80s. And it was more reprints were requested of that article than any other article they had ever printed. And it was about mastery. And the story George was telling was that of taking up Aikido at age 47, very advanced age, and then becoming the latest starter ever to reach the master teacher level in Aikido. And how did he manage to accomplish that? And it was just a set of prescriptions or principles. For attaining mastery. And the essential idea of this is that life is not designed to make things easy for us, but to present us with challenges that help us grow.”

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  40. “Is just about to re-enter the water after completing its recovery. And not simply to leave it there, but to hold your place, to actively use your hand, to hold your place because you're going to spear the other hand once you enter the water. You're going to spear it past your grip and use power from the high side of the body to move past your grip. So instead of propelling with just your arm and shoulder muscles, you're propelling with your whole body.”

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  41. “Not only are you not creating much propulsion by windmilling your arms, you're also creating a whole lot of drag. That's a sort of a fatal prescription for getting anywhere. And so we always have prioritized what we call vessel shaping or shaping your human swimming body to minimize drag during all moments in the stroke. And so the first thing you can do to minimize drag is use your arm to lengthen your body. The longer the body is, the less drag there is. And then you need to think a little bit about stroke timing in terms of that because you want to keep the body long for a bit more of the recovery. The recovery is when you're bringing your arm forward. So essentially we're teaching people to leave the extended arm forward until the other arm.”

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  42. “Sure, so our innate primal instinct when we start swimming is to windmill the arms heedlessly, just churn away with the arms, meaning generally the arms are going to be 180 degrees apart or close to it.”

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  43. “I call that the trim tab effect. So the way Shaid that the trim tabs on an airplane work to raise or lower the nose. If you have something in front, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics are at work exactly the same. And if you have something in front of the vessel that is angled down, it's going to lift the rear. And so the arm is acting as a trim tab for your body. And effortlessly lifting your legs to the surface, meaning two really important things. One is you save on the energy of kicking and the second is you save a huge amount of turbulence and drag. So just, you know, using the arm in that way, who would ever think? That's more important than pushing water back.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  44. “And it should be on a track with the whole right side of your body if it's your right arm. And your left shoulder should be barely above the surface. You should be looking straight down. You should be kicking very, very minimally. And so we taught her that position. I would say we spent a good part of an entire pool session just letting Sarah become familiar with and in control of that position”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  45. “As it can be. And so what we did there was the Superman Glide does not occur in freestyle. So we just used that to get her comfortable in the water to give her a sense that she had control of her body position. Very important to feel that you're in control. And then the very next step was to put her in the most hydrodynamic position. So we started with the most important moment in the stroke and let her become very, very familiar with all the fine details of that moment. Where should your hand be, your extended hand?”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  46. “Bubbles so that you're not holding your breath and don't cake. Press your legs lightly together and just feel your body gliding. That was step one. The second step was to teach her to shape her body for the most hydrodynamic position in the Kroll stroke and the most hydrodynamic position, the one where you experience the least drag is the fully extended position. So when you've reached forward with one arm and pressed back with the other arm and you're fully extended and rotated just a little bit off your stomach, so we call that skate position because it brings to mind or I would like to bring to mind the blade of a speed skate and to shape your body to be as long and sleek and balanced.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  47. “That's everybody's experience. Nobody can propel on a kickboard except really people who are already really good swimmers. So that's a totally useless tool to learn to swim. But everybody, what do they do? What does everybody do? They hand you a kickboard to try to strengthen your legs so your legs won't sink. That's not the problem. Having weak legs is not the problem. So the first problem we solved with Sarah was fear of sinking. And we took out the breathing component. We said we're going to add that later. When you are ready, when you have a platform of skills so that you can control something about how you breathe and we'll introduce that. And we're going to not even make kicking part of it at all, but teach you, as you have written, Tim, to have the legs draft behind the upper body. So we had her do exactly that with the Superman glide, which is just let out a pearl size string.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  48. “Kicking and breathing because every time somebody handed you a kickboard, as you said, your feet just sliced through the water like razor blades and you went nowhere. Yeah, that's everything.”

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  49. “Well, one of the things that you have written in your, you know, when you write about meta-learning, one of the principles that you have cited for that is avoid error points. And as soon as I read that, I recognized oh, yeah, we did that. Tim's got it. And what are the two error points? And you know from your experience, what are the two error points for swimmers?”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  50. “Changes the whole game. We, in fact, were shaping the vessel so that she could glide five or six yards without any effort so that she could just look down and see the pull bottom passing under her without her doing anything. And at the same time feel this. Incredible sense of support, almost weightlessness from the water.”

    2017-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #276: Terry Laughlin, The Master Who Changed My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT