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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water piled up in front of the oar, a ** heapingspoonful and low behind, so that the blade willcome out clean. Keep the elbows down, and letthe pull with the arms come straight in by thebody. It is the firm, hard, clean finish that sendsthe boat running between strokes. Dont jerk itin, Four, Feel at the finish that the pull in ofthe arms keeps the feet firmly against the stretcheruntil the hands shoot away on the recovery. Thearms, as they bend for the draw in to the finish,must keep the feet as firmly braced as when,earlier in the stroke, they were but the straps orconnecting rods which attached the oar to thebody. ThreCy take your oar out of the water before youfeather it. You are feathering under zvater anddragging the water up with your oar. The bladeshould be lifted perpendicularly out of the water inthe same position that it occupied when beingrowed through, and, when clear of the water,feathered and carried along horizontally out forthe next stroke. Feathering under water (see
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The Finish : a Strong Position. Page 66. (See also plate facing page 54.) Outboard JVoi^k 67 plate) is probably more productive of what is calledcrabbing, or catching the water with the forwardedge of the oar on the recovery, than any othersingle fault. By lifting the blade out perpendicu-larly at the finish before feathering it, we are simplyrecognizing a fact from geometry, — that a linefrom a point to a plane perpendicular to the planeis the shortest distance between the two, — and,conversely, in applying it to the present discussion,the shortest and quickest way to get clear of theplane of the water is to go straight up from it.The reason for taking the shortest cut to get awayfrom the water is pretty obvious, for at the finishthe boat is traveUing at top speed, and one cannotbe too expeditious in getting the oar blade whereit will not retard the progress of the boat. Two, you are cutting under with your blade.See that your oar blade is straight up and downbefore you begin to

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