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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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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Bow-Legged Full Reach. Page 53. (Knees trnist Jirst be brought toward each other be/ore a strong drive is practicable.^ Oars and a Boat 53 because it drops down into the boat, and the littleadditional reach gained is more than offset by theextra effort required to lift the body up before itcan swing strongly back. We may leave Threefor a time, then, with the injunction not to roweither knock-kneed, or, at the other extreme, bow-legged, but rather to toe out, as it were, with theknees, keeping them from six inches to a footapart at the full reach. Number Two, you are slumping at the finish.Hold your body firmly back and feel yourstretcher at the finish, just as you do at any otherpart of the stroke. Any part of the stroke or pull through is per-formed from the stretcher, and therefore the finishor end of the stroke must be executed from thestretcher also. The finish or end of anything isas much a part of the thing itself as the beginningor middle. At the finish of the stroke the bodysh

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