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What you need to know about the rowing recovery phase

​In this video, Olympic gold medal-winning coach Rhett Ayliffe takes us through what you need to know about the recovery if you want a fast boat. 
Video Transcript
​In racing, the ratio is one to one
okay if you've got about it's pretty

much one-to-one drive time is one second
as an example recovery time is one

second. When you're training and paddling
it's more like two and a half to one

Lyall said two, three is good because I
mean really we're really driving it it's

more like two and after one so if you've
got younger kids and the reason we've

said so what you're trying to do with
younger athletes or anyone is control of

their movement so they're moving into
the front is is controlled and set and

it's allowing the boat to come to them
instead of them going to the boat. Let

the boat come under them rather than
them going to the boat the reason we've

said not control of slide because this
is what we see with the schools in WA

control the slide control the slide
control the slide what do they end up doing

huh no they're controlling the slides
they're not belting down they're doing

exactly opposite but what are they doing
if they're controlling the slide? They're

not what? Where are they're not letting
the boat run under them where are they

not letting the boat run under them so
let's go back to the curve where's the

boat moving the quickest here where's
the coach tell them to control their

slide here should be they should
actually be actually moving a little

freer they're not holding back because
the boats actually moving under them so

coaches saying control the slide and
athletes are going I'm controlling my

slide but they're not moving with the
speed of the boat they're moving slower

than the speed of the boat they get to the
front they stop and miss water they pull

it's heavy the velocity is dropping on
them dropping on them and you must pick

it back up so the language you use is
important it's not control of slide its

move with the speed one thing the reason
people say control the slide is because

most school kids do what young school
kids they rush so the way the coach is

try and getting to stop and say control
it no control your movement and

with the speed and they'll start
understand I'm moving quicker with the speed

I'm moving quicker than the speed
because if you move too quick it's very

hard to change direction. 
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