What does the rowing boat like? (to go fast)

In this short video, Olympic Rowing Coach John Driessen explains what needs to happen for a boat to go fast using his silver medal-winning crew as an example. It's well worth watching a few times to see how a top crew goes about moving the boat.

Video Transcript

​a rowing boat is the only boat that has to deal with something moving in it

and it's connecting to the feel of that boat becomes

very important so they need to know that rushing up and down and moving around is not what the boat really likes it's a

everything is still everything is rhythmical the ratio between the drive phase and the recovery phase is a ratio