Rowing Illustrated

No, no longer a lightweight.

I have the project b shoes/bat logic plate combo in my Filippi. All I can say is, don’t do it. The shoes are too rigid, the straps are too long with the Velcro not extending down the strap far enough for a good connection, and my Velcro is shot after less than 1 season. I’m very disappointed in thes...

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Sescher/Reckford’s performance(s) during the Olympic Trials at Mercer.

Marty interviewed Clark in a 3 part video on YouTube. You can hear about his plans and aspirations directly! Seems like such a nice young man. Part 1: https://youtu.be/G67sMbAPDDM

I’d love to try these. Maybe I’ll get a chance at Craftsbury this July. It does look as if the Comp is the Bantam, but in carbon rather than fiberglass. It’s interesting to see that on the C2 website, the Bantam blade is compared to the Fat2, but from its tip. The Comp is compared to the Smoothie, b...

rowing wrote:In other words, technique welfare that keeps you in skill poverty?

It’s not a handout, but a hand up . I started rowing at 52. I might not have enough time for skill acquisition without a little help.

Even pacing seemed to be the way to win at this Worlds: http://biorow.com/index.php?route=infor ... news_id=49

The gizmo that holds the bows before the start failed to drop. Does anyone know if there was damage to the boats? Later in the day Marty said there was boat damage to a few of the boats that was being repaired by Fillipi and Empacher on site. That’s one of the reasons why they re-ran this race so l...

There is still a lot of implications in motorized doping and there was a video during this tour that definitely showed a spinning back wheel after a crash and after the wheel had been stopped it miraculously span again. What. The everloving. Hell. How is that not immediately and easily prohibited b...

Scroll down a bit and there’s a diagram of how they took the measurements:

https://www.rowperfect.co.uk/fisa-rigging-survey/

Carol

Why wasn’t Felice Mueller allowed to race the W1X?

I hate NBC. I refuse to buy cable tv, so I don't have a log in for the app. No way for me to watch it live. It's a little confusing, but I'm hoping that it will be available on world rowing the following day. Otherwise, no way to watch it at all. <sigh>