Summer is upon us, the regatta season is in full swing and with both come the merry sound of everyone in the sport of rowing going 'Crap! It's x regatta next week. We need to start thinking about a start pattern ... '
And so the Northern One returns with the observation why didn't we start working on it last September, at the start of the season, given it's, you know, a technical skill to develop.
In this episode, we talk about why technical work should be as hard and engaged with as fully as physical work (because it's free speed, dummies ... and yes, I am quoting what Kev M once said to me, why do you ask?); and why we should all treat drills as being as important as mileage: rather than being things we charge through to get to the rowing,
THEY ARE ALL THE ROWING.
Broken Oars throws out how just getting moving during an outing can be used as a litmus test of where we are and what we need to work on, as well as the standards we're prepared to accept, and then gets into the magic of getting boat moving. We talk about Head Race starts and Regatta race starts, and the differences and similarities between them before getting down to it:
How to pick up a boat from a standing start, accelerate it to its top sustainable speed for the distance and hold it there.
What we're looking for in terms of feel, what we're doing in terms of technique, why we do the 3/4, 1/2, 1/2, 3/4, 3/4 dance, why it's precise brutality we're after; why we use wind and drive as calls, why the backs in call comes in later in sequences and what terms like 'swing', 'transition' or 'push into rhythm' mean and should feel like.
And why you should never, ever call 'settle.'
We're rowers.
We never settle.
Except for coffee.
We like coffee.
We'll settle for that.
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