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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
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rough, everybody. Get the oars in^* out of the wet, and away again before the bodybreaks from its anchorage at the finish of the stroke.Remember that the best leverage is nearest the endof the oar, and dont imagine the thumb and firstfinger of the outside hand enough to hold thedrive of legs and back, and do7it shift the responsi-bility of holding the oar all on to the inside handmerely because it has a more comfortable or per-manent grip. The inside hand is valuable andhelpful, particularly on the recover, where it feathersand bevels the oar, but on the stroke the outsidehand, consisting of the thumb and at least threefingers, should hook strongly round the end of theoar handle, coupHng it up with the motive powerin legs, back, and arms. If it is questioned whether the thumb and onefinger are inadequate, let the questioner try pullinghimself up to his chin on a horizontal bar, usingwhat we may call a hand and two fifths. While heis doing this, let him not fail to observe the position
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The Finish : a Weak Position. Page 80. All Eight 81 of his elbows, and note that they are by the sides,not out at right angles to the body. The lifting ofthe body in this case involves considerably moreof a pull than is required in puUing an oar throughin rowing, and it incidentally shows how we go aboutit when we have a really severe task to accomplish.It shows better than any amount of discussion can,w^hat position in relation to that other horizontalbar, the oar, the arms and hands should occupyduring the stroke, if we wish to use our strengthmost directly and economically. And althoughwe dont have to lift such a heavy weight in rowing,nor could and get very far, still the more powerwe get in the stroke the faster the crew will go,and we may keep the experience of pulling our-selves up to our chin as a sort of ideal performanceor model to go by in puUing an oar. Overworking the Recover Remember always what you are doing in theboat, — rowing, — and dont let it degenerate intorec

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