Individual Medley Swimming Technique

100 Meter Individual Medley Swim. Order of all four strokes: 1. Butterfly 2. Backstroke 3. Breastroke 4. Freestyle (also known as front crawl). Special thanks to our good friend from Minas Gerais, Brazil for demonstrating his technique.
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[@SurfyProject]

Very cool video. Variety of angles and camera motion give a full perspective on how to swim proper IM. Thanks a lot!

[@Londrino]

That back to breast turn was crazy, I need to work on mine.

[@tranceAction1979]

London Reinhard I know! I repeated that part of this video several times at 0.25 speed to really examine how its done. The only way I knew to turn from backstroke to breaststroke was to turn around your body in the last stroke of the backstroke to proceed to a basic flip turn. This is very cool!!

[@garrickzheng5034]

crossover turns are hard to do right

[@aiden1025]

Garrick Zheng i was practicing them and found it hard to successfully do one without hurting my shoulder lol

[@firidai]

he's great

[@toshy315]

wanna know who the swimmer is.

[@johnstaley2519]

This guy got skills...

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

When you breathing less in butterfly you can swim faster. However in first 50m butterfly it is important that you breath as much as you need to save power for the rest of 150m!

[@slobodankaarambasic4961]

I lost my breath...

[@HeADSH0Ts1]

For the swimmer's freestyle, is he turning his head for every stroke cycle in order to catch a breath on every stroke or to catch more water and have more reach? Wouldn't turning his head on every stroke create more drag?

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

Mainly for the purpose of breathing. Keep in mind the further you go throughout the race, the more oxygen your body needs to supply the muscles. Especially for distances like 800 or 1500 free you see athletes breathe every other stroke. Thanks for your question and watching the video!

[@nikoladze77]

Great technique for all strokes! Nice quick breath, EVF elbows on freestyle ( removing the small hand pause in early begining of the catch will be almost perfect) , and excellent breaststroke glide between strokes.

[@evolalienn]

Beautiful

[@calembates7846]

im trying to create my own swimming programme im going ok have done 1km freeystyle as part of my rehab i got a bit confident now do ibreak the 40 lengths into 4x10 with 4 kick boards , a bit of back stroke , jogging in between each set of 10 , now have started doing the medley though i have a long way to go at 42 i would like to do the medley alot more any ideas please i have been swimming for about 3-4months or so i have gotten back into cross country/ trail bike mtb riding hope this helps.

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

That's impressive! Glad you are getting back to swimming as a part of your rehab. You can break 1K the way you like it, however, it's always good to start from stretching and easy warm-up, depends on what the goal is, and then move into more advanced sets.

[@VoxLuverIsHere]

I’m so bad at swiming and i have to do this for a swim meet today and i never swam anything besides free style… I also have to do 50 back and im going to cry…

[@zellitys7645]

Nice! I've been in swim meets for about 4 years now, and this is amazing! On freestyle just remember to do about 3-4 strokes before taking breaths.

[@tranceAction1979]

iiMisty they have already replied, but when you do 200 m individual medley in a race where you use the most powerful but energy-consuming strokes in all forms, the muscle fatigue and stamina consumption are considerable towards the end, especially the last 50 in freestyle. Sure you can do no breath in 25m, one every 4 strokes in 50-100m, but you'd be breathing more frequently in 200 freestyle or medley for oygen needs. I saw one of Michael Phelps' s 200m individual medlay in 2016 Olympic, he was breathing every other stroke in freestyle in the last 50 m.

[@swimwithcoachraven1532]

Man got some skills

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

Certainly he does! Thanks for watching!

[@alexanderkopland3714]

SO...FUCKING...AWSOME

[@PantelisTsilivis]

There needs to be more of this on youtube, really i want more.

[@jhamail]

I think this is a 100m medley? Or edited a 200m medley?

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

You hit the nail on the head! It would be way too fast for a 100 :)

[@dunnnuu6502]

i thumbed up everything ! can u do the same video in 4k ? edited and not edited plz? or is it too much, cuz ur the only one that has this video

[@dunnnuu6502]

i thumbed up everything ! can u do the same video in 4k ? edited and not edited plz? or is it too much, cuz ur the only one that has this video

[@keyvonhuff7630]

Tbh the bucket turn is easier, Faster and less confusing for me

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

That`s right! :)

[@hermankochun]

In 200m IM More breathing or less breathing is suggested in the first 50m buttery?

[@emmelyzaragoza3935]

Just watching this makes my heart race...

[@hermankochun]

what you mean is that i have to breath more in the first 50m butterfly?

[@addie7798]

I still can’t do back to breast

[@duleswim]

what model of camera you use for this videos? Great videos keep going.

[@aryankapoor4418]

Swimming 1 im today going for Jo

[@blissnichols4541]

I have swim meet tonight. I thought you are supposed to hit the wall with two hands the turn.

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

That’s is correct! In butterfly and breaststroke both hands must touch the wall at the same time. Hope the meeting went well!

[@lukman-omar-latisha8862]

easy deasy great

[@derq9473]

He's fish

[@amandafairchild1299]

WOW.

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

Thanks for sharing this video! We hope you like it as much as we do :)

[@morecreditslol]

subscribing!

[@josephsu7341]

he so good~!! :))

[@kaichou1083]

@0:25

[@MarineKingPride]

100 im

[@lusdada7019]

awesome~!

[@SwimTechniqueTV]

Thanks!

[@isabellazz7323]

I seriously wish to be able to swim this way. I swear .

[@kaichou1083]

:25

[@christinachou1558]

This is the one. isthat you?

[@kaichou1083]

No.

[@yhjo3428]

Swimming 11years Im phelps in My hometown 1m11sec hahaha

[@mylove19821]

loved it..