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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

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his to the whole Stern Four. They are allpulling hard, as if their lives depended on it, oras if they wanted to get it over with. Number Seven is a long-bodied man with rathershort legs, and, as is quite usual in such cases, hehas been economical with his development, devot-ing his training to the shorter half, with the resultthat his thighs and legs are very powerful, while thetrunk and arms have only a moderate development.There is no trouble here about the legs gettingdown out of the way as in number Eights case.Seven is slamming his legs down hard at everystroke, but he has set too fast a pace for his bodyto follow. He is using a comparatively short slide.This is natural enough because his legs are short.To make up for the shortness of sHde he is swing-ing a little further forward and back. And it isin the swing that the body gets behind. At thecatch, could we see but the legs, we should saythat Seven was a remarkable man, but we noticethat the body is unable to hold what the legs
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Kicking out the Slide. Page ^i. (^Legs almost down; shoulders not started, A cofitnionfault.^ Oars and a Boat 41 undertake to drive. The body and shoulders areleft behind at the catch and dont begin to hold orpull back till the legs are almost down. The slidemoves faster than the shoulders on the catch.Seven is * kicking out his sHde. He is ^* bitingoff more than he can chew. But he is not dis-heartened yet and, if we may continue the simile,we see him toward the end of the stroke give aconvulsive movement, which may be likened toswallowing, and with a jerking in of his arms he fin-ishes with his oar in the pit of his stomach, his bodycurled over it. It was bad enough to attempt toomuch, but the summary disposition of the overload,with the body alone, is even worse, however goodthe intention. Seven has heard Stroke asked touse his legs and he takes the hint to himself, andwith what result? Not only is his oar anchoredout at the full reach, but his shoulders and theupper part of his tr

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