Three more drills to learn sequentially which will improve your recovery. These will help fix balance issues.
Timestamps
00:45 Finesse really helps in the recovery
Crew alignment, bladework skills and body movement. The benefit is that the boat slows down less when you achieve these. The biggest gains in boat speed can be achieved here (assuming you aren't going to get much fitter/stronger).
By keeping the same peak in the power but slow the boat down less on the recovery, the average speed of the boat each stroke will be higher, and you will go faster.
Our teaching method: do one drill and then layer another drill on top of it - making it progressively harder. this allows you to build your skill and also crews of different ability can row together.
04:00 Skimming drill
Understand the impact your hands and handle heights have on boat balance.
On the recovery - let your oars run along the surface during the recovery. This teaches where the oar handles need to be relative to each other. The water is level - so your handles reflect the correct height during the power phase. In sculling this also helps to recognise the left hand over the right hand differential. Check the "nested" versus "stacked" hands demonstration at the crossover position.
Then add progressively deeper tap downs on the recovery - 1 cm, 2 cm, 3, cm. Can you keep the boat level?
It can be hard to keep your left hand higher than the right from half slide to the catch (the left hand is always higher than the right).
08:45 Pauses drills
From hands away / body over / quarter slide. Advanced rowers can also pause at weight on the feet. This is explained in the drills compendium.
Build on the skimming drill - now check your hands and body posture at different stages of the recovery. Watch the elbows of the person in front for timing.
10:15 Reverse ratio drill
The idea here is to arrive at full compression with your blade already in the water. Time the movement so the blade placement is before you change direction on the seat. Go fast up the slide and then drift your oars through the power phase. This helps you to make handle movements fluid.
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Three more drills to learn sequentially which will improve your recovery. These will help fix balance issues.
Timestamps
00:45 Finesse really helps in the recovery
Crew alignment, bladework skills and body movement. The benefit is that the boat slows down less when you achieve these. The biggest gains in boat speed can be achieved here (assuming you aren't going to get much fitter/stronger).
By keeping the same peak in the power but slow the boat down less on the recovery, the average speed of the boat each stroke will be higher, and you will go faster.
Our teaching method: do one drill and then layer another drill on top of it - making it progressively harder. this allows you to build your skill and also crews of different ability can row together.
04:00 Skimming drill
Understand the impact your hands and handle heights have on boat balance.
On the recovery - let your oars run along the surface during the recovery. This teaches where the oar handles need to be relative to each other. The water is level - so your handles reflect the correct height during the power phase. In sculling this also helps to recognise the left hand over the right hand differential. Check the "nested" versus "stacked" hands demonstration at the crossover position.
Then add progressively deeper tap downs on the recovery - 1 cm, 2 cm, 3, cm. Can you keep the boat level?
It can be hard to keep your left hand higher than the right from half slide to the catch (the left hand is always higher than the right).
08:45 Pauses drills
From hands away / body over / quarter slide. Advanced rowers can also pause at weight on the feet. This is explained in the drills compendium.
Build on the skimming drill - now check your hands and body posture at different stages of the recovery. Watch the elbows of the person in front for timing.
10:15 Reverse ratio drill
The idea here is to arrive at full compression with your blade already in the water. Time the movement so the blade placement is before you change direction on the seat. Go fast up the slide and then drift your oars through the power phase. This helps you to make handle movements fluid.
Buy the Drills Compendium (24 drills and 3 bonus ebooks)
https://fastermastersrowing.com/member-register/drills/
Want easy live streams like this? Instant broadcasts to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn. Faster Masters uses StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5694205242376192
How to make swapping easier, the differences, visible signs of what goes wrong and drills to help you swap sides and codes.
Timestamps
00:45 Switching sweep and sculling
Masters frequently get asked to swap - first couple of times you are clumsy and have lost fine motor skills.
Differences are about oar handling, movements up and down the boat and round the rigger.
01:30 List of differences
Sweep - grip on recovery, feathering, hands away (outside hand), body rotation towards the rigger, hand height at catch, elbow position at finish.
Sculling - grip on recovery, thumbs, left hand lead, nested hands, Left hand getting higher at catch, elbow position at finish.
02:50 Visible signs of what goes wrong
Get videoed or ask the person sitting behind you to tell you what they can see.
Sweep - feathering with both hands, holding on too tight with the inside hand, both arms straight, leaning away from rigger, outside elbow flares sideways, inside shoulder higher than outside shoulder.
Causes of the main issues - getting the correct hand to do each job - in sweep feathering with inside hand and outside hand controlling the handle height.
Sculling - hands hit each other, crossover with wrong hand in front, stacked not nested hands at the crossover, air gap between handles, elbows tucked to the side body.
07:30 Drills to help you switch
Practice these in the warmup.
Sweep drills - wide grip / inside hand down the loom isolates the hand, inside hand holding the seat top behind your back, press down with the outside hand, inside hand on the backstay (square blades), eyes looking out to your side of the boat.
Sculling drills - left hand lead, pausing at hands away, pause at finish with blades on the water to check your elbows, slap catches to train handle height at the catch.
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Three more drills to learn sequentially which will improve your recovery. These will help fix balance issues.
Timestamps
00:45 Finesse really helps in the recovery
Crew alignment, bladework skills and body movement. The benefit is that the boat slows down less when you achieve these. The biggest gains in boat speed can be achieved here (assuming you aren't going to get much fitter/stronger).
By keeping the same peak in the power but slow the boat down less on the recovery, the average speed of the boat each stroke will be higher, and you will go faster.
Our teaching method: do one drill and then layer another drill on top of it - making it progressively harder. this allows you to build your skill and also crews of different ability can row together.
04:00 Skimming drill
Understand the impact your hands and handle heights have on boat balance.
On the recovery - let your oars run along the surface during the recovery. This teaches where the oar handles need to be relative to each other. The water is level - so your handles reflect the correct height during the power phase. In sculling this also helps to recognise the left hand over the right hand differential. Check the "nested" versus "stacked" hands demonstration at the crossover position.
Then add progressively deeper tap downs on the recovery - 1 cm, 2 cm, 3, cm. Can you keep the boat level?
It can be hard to keep your left hand higher than the right from half slide to the catch (the left hand is always higher than the right).
08:45 Pauses drills
From hands away / body over / quarter slide. Advanced rowers can also pause at weight on the feet. This is explained in the drills compendium.
Build on the skimming drill - now check your hands and body posture at different stages of the recovery. Watch the elbows of the person in front for timing.
10:15 Reverse ratio drill
The idea here is to arrive at full compression with your blade already in the water. Time the movement so the blade placement is before you change direction on the seat. Go fast up the slide and then drift your oars through the power phase. This helps you to make handle movements fluid.
Buy the Drills Compendium (24 drills and 3 bonus ebooks)
https://fastermastersrowing.com/member-register/drills/
Want easy live streams like this? Instant broadcasts to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn. Faster Masters uses StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5694205242376192
