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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antfor the breathing that the st07nach should not bedrawn in to interfere with the downward expansionof the lu7tgs, A man who allows his knees to fallapart so that they rest almost on the gunwale ofthe boat at the full reach has, in nine cases out often, first to clap his knees together before he candrive his legs down. The most evident inferencesthat can be drawn from number Threes position onthe full reach is, that he did not use his stretcherin his recovery. If he had used it he must havekept his knees closer together to support hisweight as he came out to the full reach; for wenotice that before he drives down his legs, or putsweight against his stretcher, there is a preliminarygathering in, if we may so call it, of the knees, inorder that he may apply his power in a straightline or in one plane. We spoke about the thighs being more or lessof a support for the body on the full reach. Theydefine the limit of a strong full reach positionbeyond which the body must lose effectiveness,
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Reaching with the Shoulders. Page 52. (^Stomach drawn in. Deep breathing impossible. Thoroughly bad positionat the order ^Ready. Slide reach neglected.)

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