Technique Changes in a World Cup rower
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In this video, Ken Davey analyzes the technique of world cup rower Joel Naukkarinen. Ken, in this video, has recently begun coaching Joel on his rowing technique. Although Joel is over 15000km away, he has already made some critical technique changes.
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Video Transcript
In this particular video we'd like to talk about how to take the catch and handle heights during the drive phase as you can see here we have an athlete from earlier that's missing the catch and here we have the same athlete sometime later executing a very good catch you can see here the blade is well connected shin's still vertical loaded up ready for the drive phase
quite a well-executed catch
here we have the same athlete some time ago that's not quite getting the catch right what's happening here is that the first movement as the blade starts to go into the water is to lift the shoulders and so as you can see here the shoulders as the blade goes in the shoulders start to lift there's a little bit of leg drive we're not really connected early on and that shoulder lift takes away from the power of the drive you can also see by the vertical lines near the stern that as the athlete starts to take the stroke with their shoulders and their legs before the blade is connected then the boat has actually checked each stroke so the boat appears to go backwards in fact it's not but it's clearly taking the run off the boat
you can see here in slow motion as the blade's going in the leg drive has already started the shoulder lift has already started and we get connected about here and we've already used significant part of our power and not effectively in driving the boat forward so getting the blade in loaded up well connected before the drive phase is important and then drive with the legs initially and then once the legs are underway then feel free to open up with the body against the leg drive get a much more powerful stroke that way and a faster boat
here we look at the handle height and you can see at this particular point the height of the handle is where the green line is when the blade's under in the middle of the drive phase however as we get through towards the finish because the the athlete leans back a little as most do then the handle height would have to be held at the green line in order to keep the blade well buried clearly not going to happen so we suggest in this particular case we should lower the hand lower the oar heights in order to get a better finish here we have the same athlete rigged differently and you can see that the blade's a lot better connected at the finish and the handle height is not so uncomfortable third thing we want to look at is how the wrist moves at the finish you see here the blade's about to be feathered but see the feathering action is quite significantly wrist orientated and what that does is tends to make the body slump and lower the weight of the athlete into the bow of the boat which interrupts the run of the boat and slows the boat down so here you can still see that the wrist is still bent in the feather position and it's an important thing to fix if you can in order to get a less slump at the finish and a better run in the boat here again same athlete sometime later executing a good catch you can see as the athlete comes into the catch the first movement is the lifting of the hands to put the blade into the water loading up against the water which is really important and then driving with the legs before the opening of the body much better outcome
quite a well-executed catch
here we have the same athlete some time ago that's not quite getting the catch right what's happening here is that the first movement as the blade starts to go into the water is to lift the shoulders and so as you can see here the shoulders as the blade goes in the shoulders start to lift there's a little bit of leg drive we're not really connected early on and that shoulder lift takes away from the power of the drive you can also see by the vertical lines near the stern that as the athlete starts to take the stroke with their shoulders and their legs before the blade is connected then the boat has actually checked each stroke so the boat appears to go backwards in fact it's not but it's clearly taking the run off the boat
you can see here in slow motion as the blade's going in the leg drive has already started the shoulder lift has already started and we get connected about here and we've already used significant part of our power and not effectively in driving the boat forward so getting the blade in loaded up well connected before the drive phase is important and then drive with the legs initially and then once the legs are underway then feel free to open up with the body against the leg drive get a much more powerful stroke that way and a faster boat
here we look at the handle height and you can see at this particular point the height of the handle is where the green line is when the blade's under in the middle of the drive phase however as we get through towards the finish because the the athlete leans back a little as most do then the handle height would have to be held at the green line in order to keep the blade well buried clearly not going to happen so we suggest in this particular case we should lower the hand lower the oar heights in order to get a better finish here we have the same athlete rigged differently and you can see that the blade's a lot better connected at the finish and the handle height is not so uncomfortable third thing we want to look at is how the wrist moves at the finish you see here the blade's about to be feathered but see the feathering action is quite significantly wrist orientated and what that does is tends to make the body slump and lower the weight of the athlete into the bow of the boat which interrupts the run of the boat and slows the boat down so here you can still see that the wrist is still bent in the feather position and it's an important thing to fix if you can in order to get a less slump at the finish and a better run in the boat here again same athlete sometime later executing a good catch you can see as the athlete comes into the catch the first movement is the lifting of the hands to put the blade into the water loading up against the water which is really important and then driving with the legs before the opening of the body much better outcome