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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alue in the crewbut his general health. Number Six, dont swing round your oar, keepyour body opposite the stretcher, and let the handsand arms connect you up with the handle of theoar, whether the handle is over the keel or over theside of the boat. This brings up at once the ques-tion of whether the best pull is not at right angleswith the oar. The oar being pivoted swings in thearc of a circle. Should not the body follow the ex-ample and swing in a similar circle to enable thepull to be always at right angles? And right herewe must choose between following the oar andwhat may be called following the stretcher. That which is of prime importance is power,other things being equal. To maintain power astrong position is necessary. The strongest posi-tion is that in which the body remains in a per-pendicular plane, passing between the heels andextending parallel with the keel; that is, the bodywith the shoulders and legs should be made tokeep opposite the stretcher in order that the maxi-
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P4 <: O H Q O< g 5 Oars and a Boat 45 mum of power may be had from them. If we areto maintain this maximum of power, the arms mustdo the adjusting. In this way the power itself isleft unimpaired by any leaning from side to side.The human engine will work better, longer, andmore satisfactorily the simpler its mechanism andmovements are. If the position at the full reach,where it is manifestly impossible to pull at rightangles with the oar, is not ideal, then the body andlegs must be kept in an ideal position to makeup in quantity or power what they lack in qualityor in the directness of application of that power.The arms, from the catch to the time when the legsare almost down, are little more than straps,—strapsrather than connecting rods, because they musthave more than the freedom of movement allowedby a pivot. There is the perpendicular move-ment of the catch, and then the horizontal descend-ing movement while the legs and back are moving.Some explanation of a horizontal de

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