How to tell if you've missed the rowing catch in a crew boat
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In this video, Ken discusses how you can tell if your crew is missing the water at the catch. For the coach, they can detect the problem visually. For the athletes, they can detect the problem through feeling.
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Video Transcript
We've got this label on the boat because that's a convenient black thing that's different and you can see how it moves during the rowing stroke yeah okay now some of the strokes there particularly when the water was a bit a bit rougher but you could see the boat the sykes label would come along and then as you put the blade in it to do that sort of a movement just a little bit okay and then sometimes it wouldn't sometimes it'll go like that and go like that yeah like that now the difference is clearly someone's pushing at the catch before the blade's connected in the water can you feel that in the boat when it's not quite on at the catch when it's not connected yes yeah how does it feel what does it do more of a jolt i would say rather than uh squeezing and finding the water speed or the water pressure and a much a much harsher catch it's unlikely to be both of you at the same time because it only happens every i know sixth stroke or something like that so it's unlikely to be both of you together on the one stroke missing the catch so someone's probably got to catch in yeah and someone's missed it when that happens how does it feel to jeremy how does it feel to you there's no buildup of acceleration so it's it gets heavier and heavier rather than a build of acceleration so you feel it is heavy yeah and you feel it it's heavy probably because you've got the load yeah you know when i don't have when i'm not with him and i don't have load it does still feel heavy it's when we get it right it's that you know solid catch but then light you know then it's just you just feel it you can just feel together so when you said before it felt jerky yeah probably that what that is is um jeremy's got the water first and he's pushing it and so you feel this disconnect in the boat because, yeah in the stroke seat if you've
got the water early and you've got it connected then whoever's not connected is going to feel this movement yep and so if we say so take that a step further so when you feel that movement what do we need to do about it and the answer in your case in this boat would be to get the catch better and so so from a self-correction perspective if when you feel that movement it means it catches isn't the same and so i'd say the first thing to do would be to try and get the catch in better and delay your leg drive because that jerky bit would come because you've started to push then the blade goes in the water and then you stop the saw exactly that's that's both the best like it's like pushing my legs a bit then i've got this cement yep then you're connected yeah and so so when you feel that sensation you want to stop i saw a school girl athlete that i was helping take it uh last year and i could see what happened in her cases is that you could actually see her shoulders do that yeah and so she put the blade in the water and as soon as the blade was in the water you can see shoulders do that when she got the load yeah and she'd already moved on the seat yeah and so you want to get it and then get the load rather than start pushing and then pick up the load so when you feel that jerky movement that that means that's a message to you to say gotta nail that catch better and i reckon you'd find if you got it in earlier and jeremy felt it then you'd say okay i've got to get my catch in if you haven't got that catch in if you're not at the same time one of you is going to feel a jerk yeah yeah and so so whoever feels the jerk is probably the person who should when you get it together it's just like light isn't necessarily the word but just just it's it's smooth connected together this is easy i can do this easily
got the water early and you've got it connected then whoever's not connected is going to feel this movement yep and so if we say so take that a step further so when you feel that movement what do we need to do about it and the answer in your case in this boat would be to get the catch better and so so from a self-correction perspective if when you feel that movement it means it catches isn't the same and so i'd say the first thing to do would be to try and get the catch in better and delay your leg drive because that jerky bit would come because you've started to push then the blade goes in the water and then you stop the saw exactly that's that's both the best like it's like pushing my legs a bit then i've got this cement yep then you're connected yeah and so so when you feel that sensation you want to stop i saw a school girl athlete that i was helping take it uh last year and i could see what happened in her cases is that you could actually see her shoulders do that yeah and so she put the blade in the water and as soon as the blade was in the water you can see shoulders do that when she got the load yeah and she'd already moved on the seat yeah and so you want to get it and then get the load rather than start pushing and then pick up the load so when you feel that jerky movement that that means that's a message to you to say gotta nail that catch better and i reckon you'd find if you got it in earlier and jeremy felt it then you'd say okay i've got to get my catch in if you haven't got that catch in if you're not at the same time one of you is going to feel a jerk yeah yeah and so so whoever feels the jerk is probably the person who should when you get it together it's just like light isn't necessarily the word but just just it's it's smooth connected together this is easy i can do this easily