How to Eliminate arm grab at the catch
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In this video, Lachlan discusses arm to grab at the catch and demonstrates a simple solution to reduce or eliminate it. It's crucial that the arms don't fight the legs at the catch as it wastes precious energy.
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Video Transcript
One of the really common problems you'll see with athletes is breaking their arms at the catch like this
so they're engaging their arms they're working against their legs really want to have legs first body then arms with a little bit of overlap but definitely no arms like this at the catch so one of the things you notice when you grab your arms at the catch your elbows are rolled in so they're in this position to try and grab at the catch what we want to do the catch for people who tend to grab a little bit is just get them to roll their elbow out a little bit so just rolling their elbow out so roll it in roll it out and it's a lot harder for them to grab it's a lot less natural to grab with the arms in that position and so you can save it for later in the stroke so what we really want to do is have the legs push first hang with the body and then come through with the arms so what what's really happening is when they grab the shoulders they're sort of like this so sort of grabbing with the shoulders like this and what happens is you'll notice here my my elbow is sort of tilted down like this if i was to roll my elbow out a little bit so so this is flat elbow where i'm grabbing so it comes comes over like this grabbing like this if you just roll your elbow out a little bit so just change the angle from here to here it's not much of a difference here to here that reduces the chance that you're going to grab it's a much weaker position to try and grab with it and in fact when you get it under tension you can't actually grab in that position but if if it's facing down you can easily grab with the shoulder so when you're rowing along and say you're seeing something like your classic arm grab so classic arm grab the catch grab them with the arms just ask them to tilt their tilt their elbows out a little bit not all the way that's all the way out this is where they are when they're grabbing they're sort of in between so about halfway to full roll out
you end up with a much better hang through the shoulder and a much better hang with the ligaments and tendons not using any energy to hold that oar against the leg muscles so legs body arms
it's much easier to hang hang with that elbow twisted it out a little bit not all the way not way in so like just facing up slightly making a little bit less natural to go for the break a bit more natural to hang and lever through
so they're engaging their arms they're working against their legs really want to have legs first body then arms with a little bit of overlap but definitely no arms like this at the catch so one of the things you notice when you grab your arms at the catch your elbows are rolled in so they're in this position to try and grab at the catch what we want to do the catch for people who tend to grab a little bit is just get them to roll their elbow out a little bit so just rolling their elbow out so roll it in roll it out and it's a lot harder for them to grab it's a lot less natural to grab with the arms in that position and so you can save it for later in the stroke so what we really want to do is have the legs push first hang with the body and then come through with the arms so what what's really happening is when they grab the shoulders they're sort of like this so sort of grabbing with the shoulders like this and what happens is you'll notice here my my elbow is sort of tilted down like this if i was to roll my elbow out a little bit so so this is flat elbow where i'm grabbing so it comes comes over like this grabbing like this if you just roll your elbow out a little bit so just change the angle from here to here it's not much of a difference here to here that reduces the chance that you're going to grab it's a much weaker position to try and grab with it and in fact when you get it under tension you can't actually grab in that position but if if it's facing down you can easily grab with the shoulder so when you're rowing along and say you're seeing something like your classic arm grab so classic arm grab the catch grab them with the arms just ask them to tilt their tilt their elbows out a little bit not all the way that's all the way out this is where they are when they're grabbing they're sort of in between so about halfway to full roll out
you end up with a much better hang through the shoulder and a much better hang with the ligaments and tendons not using any energy to hold that oar against the leg muscles so legs body arms
it's much easier to hang hang with that elbow twisted it out a little bit not all the way not way in so like just facing up slightly making a little bit less natural to go for the break a bit more natural to hang and lever through