Shins Vertical, Blade Connected Rowing Exercise
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In this video, Ken teaches a University 8 how to connect to the water at the catch while the shins are vertical. We use this exercise with boats of any size.
Ken and the rowers describe the feeling in the hands when the blade is connected at the catch. |
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Video Transcript
at the moment when you put the blade in the water you're putting it in like this and it and it's you're already pushing
all right so we'll have is the stern four and what I want you to do is we'll get the boat moving just with the stern four it doesn't have to be going very fast then i want you to come in when i say i want you to come into the catch put the blade in keep your bodies over don't open up or anything like that and just let it push it down the slide and then come in and do two more normal strokes and do it again
Just let it push you, do it every third, I won't call it, let it push you, don't push, nah you pushed, I wan you to put that blade in the water and just let it push you down the slide
a little bit better you're still pushing let's not push at all put the blade in a let it push you all the way down the slide. nah you are still pushing. now lets do it with one normal stroke and have two strokes where we let it push you
we'll get this eventually
All i want you to do is do nothing just lift your hands and sit there let it go all the way let it push you down the slide all the way when the blades in there if you want to let it push the urge to push is so strong and you got to resist it you got to put that blade in get it connected now i'll push yeah that took 0.2 of a second but that's the that's the sequence and so what i want to do is do it again but this time i want you to put it in and just let it just push it just hold it and put it in and just let it push you just do nothing turn everything else off just let it push it you're letting letting it move so you're not holding it you put the blade in and then you go back on the slide and it just pushes you so what i'm demonstrating is that the boat as the oar goes into the water it has to push you or you have to let it go into the water and not push because if you push before it's in and connected we've got slip and we don't want slip but the concept is into the front and then put it in and just hold it hold your upper body nice and taut and just just let your seat just go just let your legs go loose don't use your legs at all for anything
Let it push you all the way hold it in the water tho put it in the water deep now on the stroke where you are rowing normally I want you to wait before you push so put the blade in then hesitate, remember it's up and then push. Now on this one put the blade in and then push righto lets row normally I want that blade to go into the water and I want the shins to be vertical, that's better the shins need to be vertical so the hands go up before the seat really moves and then it moves a little bit as the blade gets covered and then you put the power on but not until the blade is deep
that's better
there's a little bit more delay guys on that blade in I want it deep deep and then you push. I want you to put the blade int he water and then vertical knees that's it
How did it feel as far as the connection goes and the shin's vertical and that sort of stuff oh yeah it felt felt like you were pushing more probably feel heavier yeah yeah but what it is it's about making sure you're connected before you put the power on because otherwise you're not you're pushing air there's no point that was good so if you're going to tell these guys up here up the bow how are you how they're going to do it what do they got to be careful with there's a massive lag when you put it in before you actually feel it yeah it feels like a massive leg so what rupert's saying is when you put the blade in and you get it right it feels like you're sitting there forever while this blade goes into the water about that long but it feels weird because you've been doing this other way for so long uh the next one we do let's do it a little differently finish the whole stroke off but don't put any pull on the oar at all so put the blade in and finish the stroke the whole way off leaving the blade in the water
buried all the way through
So hands up quick and let it push you all the way
Do one more and make it perfect and then we will stop
Was that easier doing the full stroke
yeah it was easier doing the full stroke just needed to know what we were doing yeah like um once we knew what we were doing was all right okay cool because you still want to put the blade in quick because that's critical for every stroke but then just let it push you now what you felt there is that that's what happens every time the blade goes into the water that's what happens but it only happens for about that far on the slide and you slide rating about 20 your slide is probably going to move that far with no weight on the drive so you don't want to push until it's gone about that far because otherwise you're just wasting your leg drive so once it's done that though then we want to push so what i want you to do going down here is to watch your knees so put that blade in watch your knees okay
Ok let's think about it guys so get that blade hand up you put the blade in deep
Righto what's that feel like
suppose you can feel the weight a bit more feels heavier it was heavier but still i don't know just funny it will feel weird any change feels weird and rowing's such a rhythmic sport that as soon as you make a change it's going to feel really strange because you're so used to doing it the way you're used to doing it does it feel heavier does it catch excellent it doesn't feel heavy it's useless
Hold those legs back hold your bum back lets have no shoulders we want the hands going up not the shoulders watch those shoulders a bit lift the hand up first and push straight back
Righto so tell me what's different about that compared to how you thought you rowed before
it feels sort of like when i put it in that i can't really get the power on it's probably me doing something wrong i put it in i just feel like i can't just put the power down yeah and what it is and it's probably not really the power of what it is before you're used to pushing and so now you put the blade in and you must be able to get the power on because the blade's buried in the water i mean you got no choice but the powers go on there it's not going anywhere else but i reckon what it is is that you're used to pushing at that point and so all of a sudden i've taken away that push so that bit of the stroke's gone now it doesn't exist because the blades in the water so it's already you know you're used to feeling it heavy after you've already started pushing i reckon that's what it is remember connection, then you push
if you're getting it in and you're getting connected and it's going well and it feels heavy well that's great if it's too heavy that's a gearing problem so shorten the oars if we get bigger we get stronger we do something but the fact that it feels heavy means that you're connected unless you're all out of time if you're rowing a double and one of you's got the blade in another other guy doesn't then okay that's going to feel heavy because they're not rowing very well but if you're rowing together pretty well on the blades in the water it's connected and you've got the drive on then it works
well that was really good
all right so we'll have is the stern four and what I want you to do is we'll get the boat moving just with the stern four it doesn't have to be going very fast then i want you to come in when i say i want you to come into the catch put the blade in keep your bodies over don't open up or anything like that and just let it push it down the slide and then come in and do two more normal strokes and do it again
Just let it push you, do it every third, I won't call it, let it push you, don't push, nah you pushed, I wan you to put that blade in the water and just let it push you down the slide
a little bit better you're still pushing let's not push at all put the blade in a let it push you all the way down the slide. nah you are still pushing. now lets do it with one normal stroke and have two strokes where we let it push you
we'll get this eventually
All i want you to do is do nothing just lift your hands and sit there let it go all the way let it push you down the slide all the way when the blades in there if you want to let it push the urge to push is so strong and you got to resist it you got to put that blade in get it connected now i'll push yeah that took 0.2 of a second but that's the that's the sequence and so what i want to do is do it again but this time i want you to put it in and just let it just push it just hold it and put it in and just let it push you just do nothing turn everything else off just let it push it you're letting letting it move so you're not holding it you put the blade in and then you go back on the slide and it just pushes you so what i'm demonstrating is that the boat as the oar goes into the water it has to push you or you have to let it go into the water and not push because if you push before it's in and connected we've got slip and we don't want slip but the concept is into the front and then put it in and just hold it hold your upper body nice and taut and just just let your seat just go just let your legs go loose don't use your legs at all for anything
Let it push you all the way hold it in the water tho put it in the water deep now on the stroke where you are rowing normally I want you to wait before you push so put the blade in then hesitate, remember it's up and then push. Now on this one put the blade in and then push righto lets row normally I want that blade to go into the water and I want the shins to be vertical, that's better the shins need to be vertical so the hands go up before the seat really moves and then it moves a little bit as the blade gets covered and then you put the power on but not until the blade is deep
that's better
there's a little bit more delay guys on that blade in I want it deep deep and then you push. I want you to put the blade int he water and then vertical knees that's it
How did it feel as far as the connection goes and the shin's vertical and that sort of stuff oh yeah it felt felt like you were pushing more probably feel heavier yeah yeah but what it is it's about making sure you're connected before you put the power on because otherwise you're not you're pushing air there's no point that was good so if you're going to tell these guys up here up the bow how are you how they're going to do it what do they got to be careful with there's a massive lag when you put it in before you actually feel it yeah it feels like a massive leg so what rupert's saying is when you put the blade in and you get it right it feels like you're sitting there forever while this blade goes into the water about that long but it feels weird because you've been doing this other way for so long uh the next one we do let's do it a little differently finish the whole stroke off but don't put any pull on the oar at all so put the blade in and finish the stroke the whole way off leaving the blade in the water
buried all the way through
So hands up quick and let it push you all the way
Do one more and make it perfect and then we will stop
Was that easier doing the full stroke
yeah it was easier doing the full stroke just needed to know what we were doing yeah like um once we knew what we were doing was all right okay cool because you still want to put the blade in quick because that's critical for every stroke but then just let it push you now what you felt there is that that's what happens every time the blade goes into the water that's what happens but it only happens for about that far on the slide and you slide rating about 20 your slide is probably going to move that far with no weight on the drive so you don't want to push until it's gone about that far because otherwise you're just wasting your leg drive so once it's done that though then we want to push so what i want you to do going down here is to watch your knees so put that blade in watch your knees okay
Ok let's think about it guys so get that blade hand up you put the blade in deep
Righto what's that feel like
suppose you can feel the weight a bit more feels heavier it was heavier but still i don't know just funny it will feel weird any change feels weird and rowing's such a rhythmic sport that as soon as you make a change it's going to feel really strange because you're so used to doing it the way you're used to doing it does it feel heavier does it catch excellent it doesn't feel heavy it's useless
Hold those legs back hold your bum back lets have no shoulders we want the hands going up not the shoulders watch those shoulders a bit lift the hand up first and push straight back
Righto so tell me what's different about that compared to how you thought you rowed before
it feels sort of like when i put it in that i can't really get the power on it's probably me doing something wrong i put it in i just feel like i can't just put the power down yeah and what it is and it's probably not really the power of what it is before you're used to pushing and so now you put the blade in and you must be able to get the power on because the blade's buried in the water i mean you got no choice but the powers go on there it's not going anywhere else but i reckon what it is is that you're used to pushing at that point and so all of a sudden i've taken away that push so that bit of the stroke's gone now it doesn't exist because the blades in the water so it's already you know you're used to feeling it heavy after you've already started pushing i reckon that's what it is remember connection, then you push
if you're getting it in and you're getting connected and it's going well and it feels heavy well that's great if it's too heavy that's a gearing problem so shorten the oars if we get bigger we get stronger we do something but the fact that it feels heavy means that you're connected unless you're all out of time if you're rowing a double and one of you's got the blade in another other guy doesn't then okay that's going to feel heavy because they're not rowing very well but if you're rowing together pretty well on the blades in the water it's connected and you've got the drive on then it works
well that was really good