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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
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h the hands, then with thebody, and last with the slide. As a result there islittle else for the crew to do but to make up forlost time, with a dash for the full reach. Make your dash early, when the speed of theboat is at its highest, and get the feeling firm inmind, that in starting the change of direction,—in starting the recover, — you will use your toe-straps not to help you get back to the full reach,but to start pulling the boat up to a point whereyou can get a full reach. It is not enough to pullthe boat along during the stroke; there is threetimes as much momentum in the crew as there isin the boat, and this should be used to help theboat along at the beginning of the recover. Ashell eight is not a passenger boat at any stage ofa race, either during the stroke or while the crewis recovering, and it is a mistake for any crew toturn passengers on the recovery, as if to watch theeffect of a stroke while coasting out on the slidefor another try. There will be weight enough on
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Taking off the Feather Preparatory to Beveling atTHE Full Reach. Page 75. (See also plate facing page 78.) All Eight 75 the slide to bring it along out to the full reach,try as you will to keep yourselves on and in thestretchers. The instances of a free running shdebeing left behind at the start of the recover are notnumerous and need cause the crew no concern. The Stretcher In the rowing, as in almost everything worthdoing, we want a fundamental idea or principle togo by, something to tie to, as the expression is;and we have that as soon as we get into the boat,— the stretcher, — and we tie to it, and then, as likeas not, go to rowing and forget all about it. Hereagain is where the beginner in rowing needs moreof the ** baby idea in his work. He must remem-ber where his feet are and why they are fastenedin. These items seem so rudimentary as hardlyto be called for here, and yet if we tell the crew totake off the feather of the oar as the hands passover the feet, few in the boat w

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