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Summary: The individual medley is a swimming race that involves all four competitive swimming strokes: butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle. Learn how to swim an individual medley race in this free swimming video lesson.

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Phillip Toriello Phillip Toriello was a competitive swimmer for Salinas High School, USAFE Swim Team and Cuesta College. He has also been a surfer, a lifeguard, a swim instruc... read more

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How to Swim an Individual Medley Race

PHILLIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village. I'm Phillip Toriello from the Avila Bay Athletic Club. The individual medley event is one of the most phenomenal races out of all swim events. Generally, if you're a butterflyer, you're going to be considered the special ops individual of your swim team for the individual medley is no joke. It is comprised of the "fly" or the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle. If you are a butterflyer, you have the upper body strength, you have the lungs, you have the lower body strength. So, doing those other strokes or performing those other strokes probably isn't a problem, more often than not. The individual medley is usually in a 100 format, 4 lengths; a 200 format where you're performing 2 lengths of each stroke; a 400 format, which is my personal favorite, since it involves all of the endurance and all of the strokes; and then also the 4 x 100 medley relay which involves four of your best swimmers on your team.

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