Thank you for your great technical material. It is really great what you do. I just wanted to comment your "boats not bicycles" argument. I agree that human is part of the system, but what if we think that rolling wheel is moving water and catching hand is our "system" (boat, human, oar)? Isn't it what we want to do to avoid stress on our oar handle? I can be wrong.
Thanks for the question Alex. I see how you have understood what I was saying so glad I get to clarify here. Not sure how to make this a short answer, but here goes. If your hand was moving from left to right to tap the wheel along then that would be the drive, moving your hand back right to left would be the recovery. So imagine your hand is now all the way to the left, that would be your max reach, and where you want to try connect. As your hand moves from max reach till the time it touches the wheel, is the same as the distance you would be rowing the blade in by. If translated to the boat and the rower, that movement would only be possible by starting to push on the foitplate. In the case of the wheel it has no negative effect on the speed because you are standing on the floor outside the system of the wheel. In the boat any time spent with pressure on the foitplate, while the blade is not connected and locked in, will result in you pushing the boat backwards (check). So although we want our strake to feel light and tappy, we still have to let the blade reach into the water, like a swimmer does with his arm, before we add foitplate pressure. With jazz hands this is unavoidable. Hope that makes sense
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Very nice video. Definetly helped, could you in the future please make a video for putting the blade in too deep or not pulling straight?
Thanks for the suggestion. I certainly will. I had planned for one. Please look out for it. Will be called Rainbowing.
Really useful and amazing video. I love it. I will pass it to all of my rowing mates. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for your great technical material. It is really great what you do. I just wanted to comment your "boats not bicycles" argument. I agree that human is part of the system, but what if we think that rolling wheel is moving water and catching hand is our "system" (boat, human, oar)? Isn't it what we want to do to avoid stress on our oar handle? I can be wrong.
Thanks for the question Alex. I see how you have understood what I was saying so glad I get to clarify here. Not sure how to make this a short answer, but here goes. If your hand was moving from left to right to tap the wheel along then that would be the drive, moving your hand back right to left would be the recovery. So imagine your hand is now all the way to the left, that would be your max reach, and where you want to try connect. As your hand moves from max reach till the time it touches the wheel, is the same as the distance you would be rowing the blade in by. If translated to the boat and the rower, that movement would only be possible by starting to push on the foitplate. In the case of the wheel it has no negative effect on the speed because you are standing on the floor outside the system of the wheel. In the boat any time spent with pressure on the foitplate, while the blade is not connected and locked in, will result in you pushing the boat backwards (check). So although we want our strake to feel light and tappy, we still have to let the blade reach into the water, like a swimmer does with his arm, before we add foitplate pressure. With jazz hands this is unavoidable. Hope that makes sense