Coach Aram, great explanation with your experience with the coaches. Trusting them is important, but blindly listening to them is not necessary either.
Aram, i watched para rowing at the paralympics, and i would love you to break down the technique. Some were fixed leg, some could bend their legs, some had a real backwards lean, some didnt, and it was fascinating. The races were long but towards the finish line, very exciting - they had mixed doubles too which i loved. Thank you for this video as well!
Hey Aram, Garfield from the Argos here, I was also pressed into light weight with exactly the same arguments that felt 25 years ago already extremely dogmatic and inflexible. Great vid!
Hi Aram, thanks for a very interesting video. At 170 centimetres, probably too short for a rower, as thought by many. I rowed in club events in my younger days, but never at a level for my lack of height to be a barrier. I like the idea of your 100 degree rowing stroke length. My thoughts are that the most efficient parts of a stroke are the 45 degrees either side of the oar being perpendicular to the boat, a 90 degree arc. Breaking the forces generated by the oar into two vectors. At the beginning of the stroke, one vector is squeezing the boat while the other is driving the boat forward. As the stroke progresses more of the power is driving the boat forward, until the oar is perpendicular to the boat. Then the forward vector diminishes and after 45 degrees the most power is going into trying to stretch the boat wider. An important point here also is where the most power from the legs is being applied to the oar. Assuming you are rowing “correctly”. It must be around when the oar is perpendicular to the boat. This, I think, implies that the position of the feet and in turn where the rower sits in the boat, relative to the pin, is important. Some modern boats I have seen have a built in measure to allow for accurate positioning. Perhaps adding a few more degrees at the beginning of the stroke, when you drop the oar into the water, will allow you to accelerate it to the speed of the boat before you get into the most useful 90 degree arc. Once again thank you for your interesting and thought provoking videos.
Thank you very much for your comment. An important point I did not even mention (in this video) is that you adapt your boat setting to fit your physique. For example shortening the spread and inboard. Of course, you need the strength to sustain that
@AramTraining I have been a junior coach for (oh god) 14 years. One of the things I tell new coaches I work with is: Your job is not to decide who belongs in the sport. Your job is to make whatever team is in front of you as fast as possible. If you coach them well, rig the boats, and give them meaningful opportunities to race - they will decide when they have had enough. In other words, if the sport isn't for them, they will likely come to that conclusion on their own pretty soon. If they feel the sport IS for them, but that the training becomes too much - there are other sports, or other rowing programming available - coaches need to stop telling people where they do and do not belong. It's as lame and gatekeep-y as you elucidate in the introduction.
You can rig most people to get 110 degree arc, unless they are really short. Thereafter it’s a simple matter of available power. Generally more muscle equals more power. It also means more weight. More weight means more wetted area in the hull, means more resistance. Somewhere there’s a balance.
Super Video...ich bin ca. 1,82m und denke auch immer, dass ich "zu klein" bin...obwohl ich auch minimum dieselbe Schlaglänge habe, wie mein Kollege, der >1,90m ist. Wäre mal interessant, den "Schlagwinkel" auf einem Biorower auszutesten
Coach Aram, great explanation with your experience with the coaches. Trusting them is important, but blindly listening to them is not necessary either.
You habe to learn to distinguish
Great breakdown Aram, I find all your videos helpful and informative. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate that!
Aram, i watched para rowing at the paralympics, and i would love you to break down the technique. Some were fixed leg, some could bend their legs, some had a real backwards lean, some didnt, and it was fascinating. The races were long but towards the finish line, very exciting - they had mixed doubles too which i loved. Thank you for this video as well!
Very sorry but I cannot use motion picture from the Olympics. And a video analysis with stills is not very useful
@@AramTraining that's such a shame!!!!
Thanks Aram!! 🎉
Amazing video Aram! Thank you so much!
Thank you!
love the vids
Hey Aram, Garfield from the Argos here, I was also pressed into light weight with exactly the same arguments that felt 25 years ago already extremely dogmatic and inflexible. Great vid!
Thank you for your great comment Garfield. Which Argos?
@@AramTraining Argonauten Wien, dachte ich schreib einmal auf englisch 😁
Hi Harfield, na klar weiß ich, wer Du bist
Hi Aram, thanks for a very interesting video. At 170 centimetres, probably too short for a rower, as thought by many. I rowed in club events in my younger days, but never at a level for my lack of height to be a barrier. I like the idea of your 100 degree rowing stroke length.
My thoughts are that the most efficient parts of a stroke are the 45 degrees either side of the oar being perpendicular to the boat, a 90 degree arc. Breaking the forces generated by the oar into two vectors. At the beginning of the stroke, one vector is squeezing the boat while the other is driving the boat forward. As the stroke progresses more of the power is driving the boat forward, until the oar is perpendicular to the boat. Then the forward vector diminishes and after 45 degrees the most power is going into trying to stretch the boat wider.
An important point here also is where the most power from the legs is being applied to the oar. Assuming you are rowing “correctly”. It must be around when the oar is perpendicular to the boat. This, I think, implies that the position of the feet and in turn where the rower sits in the boat, relative to the pin, is important. Some modern boats I have seen have a built in measure to allow for accurate positioning. Perhaps adding a few more degrees at the beginning of the stroke, when you drop the oar into the water, will allow you to accelerate it to the speed of the boat before you get into the most useful 90 degree arc.
Once again thank you for your interesting and thought provoking videos.
Thank you very much for your comment. An important point I did not even mention (in this video) is that you adapt your boat setting to fit your physique. For example shortening the spread and inboard. Of course, you need the strength to sustain that
@AramTraining I have been a junior coach for (oh god) 14 years. One of the things I tell new coaches I work with is: Your job is not to decide who belongs in the sport. Your job is to make whatever team is in front of you as fast as possible. If you coach them well, rig the boats, and give them meaningful opportunities to race - they will decide when they have had enough. In other words, if the sport isn't for them, they will likely come to that conclusion on their own pretty soon. If they feel the sport IS for them, but that the training becomes too much - there are other sports, or other rowing programming available - coaches need to stop telling people where they do and do not belong. It's as lame and gatekeep-y as you elucidate in the introduction.
@9800nathan Thank you very much. Coaches like yourself are the backbone of the future of our sport. I am quite serious about that.
@@AramTraining Thanks Aram, I appreciate that!
yeah i'm 1 inch too short, might as well take the day off im not making it anyways 🤣
Can you explain the Henley and Olympic final and top 3? All above 6’8!
Which boat class?
@@AramTrainingmen’s open single and diamond single
You can rig most people to get 110 degree arc, unless they are really short. Thereafter it’s a simple matter of available power. Generally more muscle equals more power. It also means more weight. More weight means more wetted area in the hull, means more resistance. Somewhere there’s a balance.
Super Video...ich bin ca. 1,82m und denke auch immer, dass ich "zu klein" bin...obwohl ich auch minimum dieselbe Schlaglänge habe, wie mein Kollege, der >1,90m ist. Wäre mal interessant, den "Schlagwinkel" auf einem Biorower auszutesten
Wenn ihr in Wien seid, kommt einfach vorbei und meldet euch vorher
@@AramTraining mach ich....danke.
Can't taller people change the setup of the boat to take full advantage of their levers and length? Just speculation.
I think so, at least to a certain degree. Step #1 is to widen the spread and use longer and softer oars.