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Re: Terry Laughlin from Total Immersion in a fascinating debate on BT [saltman]
Your argument is unconvincing to me. As stated before, I've done similar things with running - because of my HS running background, I can take a huge layoff, but then out and outrun every runner who started training as an adult in the local group in the weekly track workout. But I'm under no illusion it's due to my special technique.

I'm not denying that technique is crucial for swimming - despite your snide remarks, I spent almost 1.5 hours per day, 3-4x/wk on technique last year, with a regular coach (was hella expensive, too!). But I do think that it's overstated, and the example you give is a classic example of such an overstatement.

You are definitely confusing innate ability and background and trying to generalize it as applicable to everyone, when it's clearly not. Just because it's easy me to run a sub-21 5k, for you to swim a sub-24 1500 OWS and easy a bunch of 10 year old swimmers (who often already have 3+ years of serious swimming experience!) to go that fast, doesn't mean that therefore it's all technique requiring no fitness and that EVERYBODY has the ability to do it.
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