Listen when rowing and make technique changes
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In this video, Lachlan demonstrates how by listening to the boat, you can supercharge your technique changes. By teaching yourself what to listen for when rowing, you will have another tool to use to improve your rowing.
He describes what he listens for and what sounds to focus on for improving technique. |
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Video Transcript
So on days like this one it's beautiful and still one of the things that you can really get a good feeling for in the boat is uh the sounds that the boat makes so you know you're listening to what the slides doing what the gate's doing uh you know what the placement sounds like it's just a little thought for us like a big splash you can really hear a lot when you're rowing along on a day like today so one of the key things you want to listen out for is your slide so as you come forward on your slide you can sort of hear like a whoosh noise which is basically just the wheels on the slide but the two things you want to really connect is the wheels on the slides so that shhhh noise of the slide and the placement and it should end that sound should stop with the placement of the blade so you shouldn't be able to hear any difference between when you stop coming forward on the slide and when the blade goes in the water that make sure you come into the catch nice and quickly place the blade and you're connected and away before you waste any of the leg drive so just try and connect those two up so when you row along try and make everything a little bit more quiet so a bit smoother a bit less jerky a little less clunky so you just want to be rolling it out split that squaring like this feathering square feather you don't want to be square feather square square or whatever so try and make it a lot quieter smoother
rowing quietly
you can hear the blade at the finish too you don't want to be throwing lots of water up don't make it loud there nice and quiet everywhere
doesn't mean you have to row lightly this means that you're more clever about your movements
this is when it sounds a bit louder
a little less precise a little bit more wasted energy I'll do that again
nice and smooth
come down the slide here it and the catch
so you can also hear the bubbles running along the bottom of the boat while you can't really determine a lot from this about how your technique is it's really nice just to listen to really sort of get you in the zone
as you notice you're listening to all the different pieces of the boat you can find that it's a lot easier to hear changes that you make with your technique so if you make a technical change have a think about what changes you can hear what changes you can feel and if you listen to the boat it can tell you a lot about whether you're executing those changes or not especially with a nice catch there's a there's something really nice about hearing the slide end with the placement of the blade and for me personally i can really feel like i get a good catch and i know i row a lot better when i consciously think about connecting the slide noise with the placement of the blade another big one for me is the finish you can see there my finishes are relatively clean but i'm trying really hard and if i stop thinking about this for a while i'll start to wash out a bit more it'll be a bit more noisy i'll catch a bit of air throw a bit of water backwards and so just thinking about being nice and quiet nice and efficient trying to convert every single bit of energy that i'm putting through my foot stretcher and through the handle into making the boat run i don't want to be converting it to sound noise i don't want to be converting it to any sort of force which doesn't actually propel the boat forwards and minimizing the amount of noise that you make when you're rowing along is a good way of doing that once again when you tap out try and roll it a little bit don't try and flick it and try and feel it in the hands tap out for the flat wrist as you square up just roll the handle into the into the hands don't try and do anything drastic try and keep it nice and smooth nice and quiet and very precise
And that's my turn around point
rowing quietly
you can hear the blade at the finish too you don't want to be throwing lots of water up don't make it loud there nice and quiet everywhere
doesn't mean you have to row lightly this means that you're more clever about your movements
this is when it sounds a bit louder
a little less precise a little bit more wasted energy I'll do that again
nice and smooth
come down the slide here it and the catch
so you can also hear the bubbles running along the bottom of the boat while you can't really determine a lot from this about how your technique is it's really nice just to listen to really sort of get you in the zone
as you notice you're listening to all the different pieces of the boat you can find that it's a lot easier to hear changes that you make with your technique so if you make a technical change have a think about what changes you can hear what changes you can feel and if you listen to the boat it can tell you a lot about whether you're executing those changes or not especially with a nice catch there's a there's something really nice about hearing the slide end with the placement of the blade and for me personally i can really feel like i get a good catch and i know i row a lot better when i consciously think about connecting the slide noise with the placement of the blade another big one for me is the finish you can see there my finishes are relatively clean but i'm trying really hard and if i stop thinking about this for a while i'll start to wash out a bit more it'll be a bit more noisy i'll catch a bit of air throw a bit of water backwards and so just thinking about being nice and quiet nice and efficient trying to convert every single bit of energy that i'm putting through my foot stretcher and through the handle into making the boat run i don't want to be converting it to sound noise i don't want to be converting it to any sort of force which doesn't actually propel the boat forwards and minimizing the amount of noise that you make when you're rowing along is a good way of doing that once again when you tap out try and roll it a little bit don't try and flick it and try and feel it in the hands tap out for the flat wrist as you square up just roll the handle into the into the hands don't try and do anything drastic try and keep it nice and smooth nice and quiet and very precise
And that's my turn around point