Staying Relaxed and Horizontal as You Row
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Many rowing coaches will tell you to sit up in the boat. But Calm Waters Rowing coach and U.S. National Team medalist John Dunn says sitting up straight is a mistake. Learn why in this video tutorial filmed on the private lake owned by Calm Waters Rowing, a rowing camp for beginning and experienced rowers alike in Lancaster, Virginia..
This video is part of the "Introduction to Rowing Technique" series produced by Calm Waters Rowing.
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Thank you! That helps me a lot 👍👍👍👍
Sorry for the delay. We spend a lot of time going against the grain of what other coaches are coaching, especially when it comes to sitting up. View our latest video where we show all the Olympic gold medalists from 2008 - no sitting up anywhere. Sitting up will obviously make you more vertical and the higher you get, the less stable you'll be. Also, if you drive while sitting up, all the pressure is placed on the lower vertabrae instead of dispersing it throughout the entire spinal cord.
Thanks John.
Yeah but we coaches teach us to sit up straight for balance and also so we don't injure ourselevs ???
Rolling the back, Prime way to injure yourself. If you dead-lifted rolling the back you would screw you back up so why do it in the boat
Watch the Olympians, they're all doing this. Some of them row through 5 Olympic cycles. If a rounded back was bad and caused injury, they couldn’t possible row this way. Look for video of Itzok Cop, raced the 1x in 1996 and the 2x in the next 4 Olympics. Rounded back, very long and successful career. Just one example of 100's.
Olympians who have had had years to build up the supporting muscles and have people around them who's job it it to monitor them for potential injury's. And yet many still get injured, so much so than many dedicated rowing physiotherapists have recovering form back injury down to a tee.
I know there are many successful athletes who roll there back's. But teaching this to any athlete who isn't at that elite level, especially ones who train regularly increases there chance of getting injured significantly.
Sorry, I disagree. I have rowed for 40 years with a rounded back and no injuries. I would say sitting up is what causes the injuries. If you sit up, all the pressure gets centered in your lower back during the drive. When you round the back, all the vertebrae share the strain. Again, look at the Olympians and show me someone who sits up.
rowingwithcalmwaters Hi John, I would like to preface this by saying that I’ve attended your camp in the past, very helpful in learning to scull and improve my rowing! However, i would now disagree heavily with teaching the technique to round your back. I did this after your camp and unfortunately got injured and healed the injury by straightening my back. That being said I think it would be more beneficial to teach a relaxed back, you don’t want to be straight up like a stick but rolling the back exposes yourself to undo stress.
I don’t think that saying that “olympians roll their backs” is a good argument either because it’s a very small number that do. If you look at the winning crews in sculling boats these days, let’s say people like Kjetil Borch, Robbie Manson and Olli Zeidler, none of them are intentionally rolling their backs on the recovery. They might be on the drive but that’s because of the massive amount of force they are transferring in their strokes. I think that teaching this technique, especially to younger and less developed athletes does more harm than good.
@@jhontompsan365 I explained to this "proud" man that keeping the back straight not curved is the correct posture for rowing a boat to prevent back injury just like it is for doing bent-over rows in the gym using a barbell. He won't listen. He takes corrections personally.