Do you hang or grab at the catch when rowing?
In this video, Ken Davey describes and demonstrates how to spot the difference between hang and grab at the catch.
He provides a good example of hang and highlights the critical aspects of a good hang at the catch. |
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Video Transcript
often we talk about hang at the catch
what we mean by that is the athlete
being able to not use their arms and
their shoulders and simply just hang
onto the handle of their skeletal frame
here you can see Lachlan demonstrating
pretty good hang and you can see the
narrowing in motion curve in the
top-left corner and that little bump at
the catch and that little bump is caused
by leg drive not by shoulder drive very
important to know the difference you can
see if you have a closer look you can
see how looking at the bare shoulders
you can see there's no tension in the
shoulders simply the muscles had just
hanging there fully extended arms just
hanging off his skeletal frame and the
blades connected very important to get
that good connection right at the start
without using shoulders or arms you can
see on the graph here that the bump just
at the after the catch is when the
blade is connected and the leg drive is on
so it's the force against the gate
from the legs working against the blade
in the water if you have a close look here
you can see very clearly that there's no
tension in the upper shoulders the
arms are fully extended
no bent arms and in a very strong
powerful position driving against the
legs so the legs driving at this point
holding the body in the same position
and getting a powerful catch powerful
initial leg drive so it's important to
make sure with athletes when they're
learning to hang that you make sure they
don't use their upper body for the catch
and they don't bend their arms at the
catch they also don't pull their
shoulders back into their sockets
so essentially just hanging off their
skeletal frame and using the legs for
that first part of the drive once the
legs are under way of course then they
can start to open up with the body and
then finish with the arms in the normal
rowing stroke so very important to watch
the athletes and make sure that the
shoulders are relaxed the arms fully
extended essentially just hanging off
the handle it's useful if you can to
have athletes when you're working on
this particular aspect of the stroke to
have the athletes have a sleeveless top
because then it's very easy to see what
the muscles are doing
in fact if you have an athlete that
grabs at the catch with their shoulders
or their arms then you can very easily
see the muscle definition change and
that's a very easy way to work on it you
can also use this on an ergo and so the
same principle applies if you have a
sleeveless top on the ergo then you can
watch in the mirror and the athletes can
monitor themselves whether they've got
good hang or not so hang a very
important part of the catch and if you
can make sure that the athletes don't
use their shoulders or their arms at
this point just simply hang off the
handle and drive hard with the legs
what we mean by that is the athlete
being able to not use their arms and
their shoulders and simply just hang
onto the handle of their skeletal frame
here you can see Lachlan demonstrating
pretty good hang and you can see the
narrowing in motion curve in the
top-left corner and that little bump at
the catch and that little bump is caused
by leg drive not by shoulder drive very
important to know the difference you can
see if you have a closer look you can
see how looking at the bare shoulders
you can see there's no tension in the
shoulders simply the muscles had just
hanging there fully extended arms just
hanging off his skeletal frame and the
blades connected very important to get
that good connection right at the start
without using shoulders or arms you can
see on the graph here that the bump just
at the after the catch is when the
blade is connected and the leg drive is on
so it's the force against the gate
from the legs working against the blade
in the water if you have a close look here
you can see very clearly that there's no
tension in the upper shoulders the
arms are fully extended
no bent arms and in a very strong
powerful position driving against the
legs so the legs driving at this point
holding the body in the same position
and getting a powerful catch powerful
initial leg drive so it's important to
make sure with athletes when they're
learning to hang that you make sure they
don't use their upper body for the catch
and they don't bend their arms at the
catch they also don't pull their
shoulders back into their sockets
so essentially just hanging off their
skeletal frame and using the legs for
that first part of the drive once the
legs are under way of course then they
can start to open up with the body and
then finish with the arms in the normal
rowing stroke so very important to watch
the athletes and make sure that the
shoulders are relaxed the arms fully
extended essentially just hanging off
the handle it's useful if you can to
have athletes when you're working on
this particular aspect of the stroke to
have the athletes have a sleeveless top
because then it's very easy to see what
the muscles are doing
in fact if you have an athlete that
grabs at the catch with their shoulders
or their arms then you can very easily
see the muscle definition change and
that's a very easy way to work on it you
can also use this on an ergo and so the
same principle applies if you have a
sleeveless top on the ergo then you can
watch in the mirror and the athletes can
monitor themselves whether they've got
good hang or not so hang a very
important part of the catch and if you
can make sure that the athletes don't
use their shoulders or their arms at
this point just simply hang off the
handle and drive hard with the legs