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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. Itwould be quite impossible for the body to keep upwith the wound-up stroke without an effort whichwould wear out the crew. As it is, the crew rushesforward to the full reach with bodies but slightlyincHned. The tendency to overreach, or to fallover on the full reach, is minimized by having thispart of the movement reduced to a slide reach.The fairly erect body in its natural position per-mits of getting the oars in as soon as the slide endis reached, and more quickly than when, with bodyinclined beyond the perpendicular, the angle be-tween body and arms is greater and the positiona more strained and unnatural one. So, then, the wound-up stroke has an elementof naturalness and simpHcity to commend it. Thework is done by the working members —the legsand arms. It is a stroke, however, of quantityrather than one of quality. The object is howmany, rather than how well. As a remedy for stop-ping the boat it is a superficial one, and does notcorrect, but rather counteracts, if possible.
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The Full Reach is in the Water. Page 19. (Compare plate faci7ig j>age 52.) Rowing Tervis 19 Reach So closely allied to the catch of the water is thereach, or full reach, that it is worth while taking itup in immediate connection with the catch. I shallconsider the full reach as being more exactly iden-tified with the catch. The position at the full reach, or full forward, isat the logical limit of the reach proper, or at theend of the recover, so called. It is evident thatthe full reach is a definite though not necessarilyfixed point. It remains to determine where thispoint is with reference to the oar blade and thewater. The end of the reach, or full reach, is theend of an effort to reach something, and that some-thing is the water. The mere arrival at the end ofthe body and slide reach in-board is not, of neces-sity, the full reach, as many seem to think. Rowingcomes under the head of aquatic sports, and is nota simple gymnastic horizontal squat. The armsare the most important fe

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