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Identifier: practicalrowingw00stev (find matches)
Title: Practical rowing with scull and sweep
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stevens, Arthur Wesselhoeft, 1875- Darling, Eugene Abraham
Subjects: Rowing Physical education and training
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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end of the oar and pushthe finish of the stroke in to the body while theinside hand presses the oar against the button is tolose much in effectiveness of the finish. Without entering into a detailed considerationof the muscles used in the latter part of the stroke,we may say that the most important are thebiceps, which flex the arm, the trapezii, whichdraw the shoulder-blades back toward the spine,and the latissimus dorsi, which draws the armsinward and backward. Our number Four is usinghis deltoids overmuch on the finish, and in sodoing has lifted his arms out from behind the oar,complicated muscular action, and has detractedfrom form as well as substance at the finish of thestroke. Furthermore, the shifting of the hold on the oarat the finish throws more work on the inside handwhen it comes time to lift the blade out of the water.In fact, if we watch number Four closely, we shallsee that his outside hand loses hold of the oar en-tirely, just after the finish of the stroke. The whole
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Strong Position on Full Reach, Page 51. (Knees in line with shoulders and/eei.) Oars and a Boat 51 matter of lifting the blade clear of the water andcarrying it forward in the ^* shoot is thus thrownupon the inside hand with its decreased leverageand consequently diminished control. In the days when the tholepin was in use itwas customary to caution the oarsman to keepan outward pressure with the hand nearest the pinin order to keep the button on the oar closeagainst it. This practically resolved itself into aninjunction to row with the outside hand and re-cover with the inside hand. And while this ideastill underhes stroke and recovery with the modernrowlock, the inside hand should act as pilot andadjuster of feather and bevel in conjunction withthe outside hand and not alone. Number Three, keep your knees close togetheron the full reach. The knees should never befurther apart than the width of the shoulders.Their being nearer together than this dependssomewhat on the build of the oa

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