Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Alexa 9/5/07
Watch the connection. Watch where your hands and the handle are when your legs are finished. You need to first bring the hands in sooner. Not faster; earlier. You may also need to "slow" the legs down. I don't mean pull lighter, I just mean to take your time with the legs. If they fire down right away, you've got nothing left for the rest of your drive.
Connection is extremely important in sculling. Your hands must work together, but they don't want to. Everyone feels stronger on one side or another. The only way to go straight is to use the legs. The legs will act as a link between the hands. If you are able to extract the blades as soon as the legs finish, you'll never get a blade "caught" and will be able to extract cleanly.
During some strokes, you shoot your slide. Your legs and seat are moving, but the handles are not. Handles must move with the seat. Otherwise you are using your legs, but your blades are not moving the boat.
Connection is extremely important in sculling. Your hands must work together, but they don't want to. Everyone feels stronger on one side or another. The only way to go straight is to use the legs. The legs will act as a link between the hands. If you are able to extract the blades as soon as the legs finish, you'll never get a blade "caught" and will be able to extract cleanly.
During some strokes, you shoot your slide. Your legs and seat are moving, but the handles are not. Handles must move with the seat. Otherwise you are using your legs, but your blades are not moving the boat.
Brad, Alex, Susan, Emily, Alyssa
Watch the connection. Watch where your hands and the handle are when your legs are finished. You need to first bring the hands in sooner. Not faster; earlier. You may also need to "slow" the legs down. I don't mean pull lighter, I just mean to take your time with the legs. If they fire down right away, you've got nothing left for the rest of your drive.
Alex - you are opening the body way too early. It looks as though you are using your body to place the blade, rather than your arms. Keep your body forward both to place the blade and as you begin the drive with your legs.
Susan and Emily - make sure the outside arms and elbows stay out and even with the end of the handle. They forearm should become an extension of the handle. This will allow you to keep your outside wrist completely flat. It will also allow you to put downward pressure on the handle in order to extract the blade at the release, rather than needing to "pull" it down.
Alyssa - You still have a lunge towards the catch. Make sure that you are getting your body angle through your hips, not the spine. Your upper body tends to collapse as you come into your full compression. Sit up.
Alex - you are opening the body way too early. It looks as though you are using your body to place the blade, rather than your arms. Keep your body forward both to place the blade and as you begin the drive with your legs.
Susan and Emily - make sure the outside arms and elbows stay out and even with the end of the handle. They forearm should become an extension of the handle. This will allow you to keep your outside wrist completely flat. It will also allow you to put downward pressure on the handle in order to extract the blade at the release, rather than needing to "pull" it down.
Alyssa - You still have a lunge towards the catch. Make sure that you are getting your body angle through your hips, not the spine. Your upper body tends to collapse as you come into your full compression. Sit up.
Tom, Adam, Brian, Giacamo, Vladimir
Watch the connection. Watch where your hands and the handle are when your legs are finished. You need to first bring the hands in sooner. Not faster; earlier. You may also need to "slow" the legs down. I don't mean pull lighter, I just mean to take your time with the legs. If they fire down right away, you've got nothing left for the rest of your drive.
Stroke pair: Connection looks ok. Timing is off. You two have been and will continue to row with each other a ton. You need to be hitting the same marks at the same time. Releases need to synch up.
Brian - shoulders. As you come up the slide, you lunge foward with the outside arm. Sit up and keep the shoulders in their sockets. Twist around your rigger rather than continuing to push forward. Keep your outside shoulder up and relax your inside shoulder. You can also bend the inside arm to make sure that you don't use it for power.
Bow pair - this is all new to you. Timing is an issue, but I would assume that it would be. That will come as you get more comfortably with what you are doing. You are both opening your bodies far too early. To get the blade into the water, just take the weight of your arms off of the handle. The body stays forward while this happens. When you begin your drive, the body should still be forward. Only after you have started moving the boat with your legs do you start to open the body.
Stroke pair: Connection looks ok. Timing is off. You two have been and will continue to row with each other a ton. You need to be hitting the same marks at the same time. Releases need to synch up.
Brian - shoulders. As you come up the slide, you lunge foward with the outside arm. Sit up and keep the shoulders in their sockets. Twist around your rigger rather than continuing to push forward. Keep your outside shoulder up and relax your inside shoulder. You can also bend the inside arm to make sure that you don't use it for power.
Bow pair - this is all new to you. Timing is an issue, but I would assume that it would be. That will come as you get more comfortably with what you are doing. You are both opening your bodies far too early. To get the blade into the water, just take the weight of your arms off of the handle. The body stays forward while this happens. When you begin your drive, the body should still be forward. Only after you have started moving the boat with your legs do you start to open the body.
Elliot, Natalie, Judith, Hannah, Danielle 9/5/07
Watch the connection. Watch where your hands and the handle are when your legs are finished. You need to first bring the hands in sooner. Not faster; earlier. You may also need to "slow" the legs down. I don't mean pull lighter, I just mean to take your time with the legs. If they fire down right away, you've got nothing left for the rest of your drive. Judith is close.
Judith - watch your lunge. Get all of your body angle before you begin your slide. You get a little extra "reach" using your shoulders and upper back. Sit up tall through the spine and keep your arms in their sockets.
Hannah - similar problem. Set your body angle early and hold it all the way through the recovery. There should be no movement in the entire upper body as you come up the slide.
Danielle - you still need a bit more body angle. Get it right away; don't wait until you're up the slide
Judith - watch your lunge. Get all of your body angle before you begin your slide. You get a little extra "reach" using your shoulders and upper back. Sit up tall through the spine and keep your arms in their sockets.
Hannah - similar problem. Set your body angle early and hold it all the way through the recovery. There should be no movement in the entire upper body as you come up the slide.
Danielle - you still need a bit more body angle. Get it right away; don't wait until you're up the slide
Anthea, Chris, Zach, Tyler, Dave 9/5/07
Watch the connection. Bow pair especially, watch where your hands and the handle are when your legs are finished. You need to first bring the hands in sooner. Not faster; earlier. You may also need to "slow" the legs down. I don't mean pull lighter, I just mean to take your time with the legs. If they fire down right away, you've got nothing left for the rest of your drive.
Dave, you're folding your body in half at the catch. Without losing your body angle, sit up through the spine.
Zach, watch your shoulders. Your shoulders almost match Chris'. The problem is that he is on the other side. Outside shoulder stays up while inside shoulder stays relaxed. Inside arm should remain bent and provide very little power.
Dave, you're folding your body in half at the catch. Without losing your body angle, sit up through the spine.
Zach, watch your shoulders. Your shoulders almost match Chris'. The problem is that he is on the other side. Outside shoulder stays up while inside shoulder stays relaxed. Inside arm should remain bent and provide very little power.
The Drive
To begin the drive, once the blade is placed and just barely covered, we need to push off of the footplate with the balls of our feet. The abs remain engaged and the body remains forward. As the legs begin the drive and the boat starts moving, we begin to swing the body towards the bow, all the while keeping the abs engaged. The arms begin to draw the handle into the ribs and all three: legs, body, and arms, end at the same time, resulting in the release or extraction.
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