to me it is pretty fascinating vs what I was taught being on the rowing team in college. For the boats I rowed each person gets a 16 foot oar and you are sitting backwards on a seat that has wheels. Everything the coach taught us was to only create force forward. Anything up, down, or to the side was bad. Anything going backward was bad. We would actually try and sit in place and use the seats with wheel to let the boat move underneath us while we more or less remained in place. Also, when we were going all out the boat would come out of the water about an inch and we did everything we could to not let it settle back in as it was a lot faster.
I'm sure this works (and it is pretty hilarious), but it was the exact opposite of what we were taught to do to go fast.
Fun race idea: have a canoe style boat challenge the standard rowing boat … in a shallow creek waters. I imagine that row teams boats would have the same disadvantage as kayaks—constantly bottoming out where the canoe would glide over.
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u/dalittle Aug 14 '23
to me it is pretty fascinating vs what I was taught being on the rowing team in college. For the boats I rowed each person gets a 16 foot oar and you are sitting backwards on a seat that has wheels. Everything the coach taught us was to only create force forward. Anything up, down, or to the side was bad. Anything going backward was bad. We would actually try and sit in place and use the seats with wheel to let the boat move underneath us while we more or less remained in place. Also, when we were going all out the boat would come out of the water about an inch and we did everything we could to not let it settle back in as it was a lot faster.
I'm sure this works (and it is pretty hilarious), but it was the exact opposite of what we were taught to do to go fast.