Wow he has come a long way! Despite the agricultural grip there is so much touch and a beautiful feel for the speed of the boat through the stroke cycle. So simple and fluid making it so nice to watch
Please stop it, I have to work!! Your videos of people sculling so nicely are hard to resist :-) One thing I notice is they pull the elbows very low w.r.t. the "orthodoxy" they taught us back then, which was more or less "pull in a straight horizontal line and then extract and feather rotating the forearm on the elbow". The role model back then was Thomas Lange, I think today the French extremise this type of movement. My take on this is that the arm pull has simply become so unimportant w.r.t the legs+trunk chain, but your comments most welcome. Cheers!
EDIT (as I get the next video) ...while in the eight the outer elbow is actually pulled straight towards the bow, perhaps with the only exception of the great H.B. Back to work now!
He's improved a lot between this footage and 2023, where he won a bronze at worlds.
Wow he has come a long way! Despite the agricultural grip there is so much touch and a beautiful feel for the speed of the boat through the stroke cycle. So simple and fluid making it so nice to watch
Please stop it, I have to work!! Your videos of people sculling so nicely are hard to resist :-) One thing I notice is they pull the elbows very low w.r.t. the "orthodoxy" they taught us back then, which was more or less "pull in a straight horizontal line and then extract and feather rotating the forearm on the elbow". The role model back then was Thomas Lange, I think today the French extremise this type of movement. My take on this is that the arm pull has simply become so unimportant w.r.t the legs+trunk chain, but your comments most welcome. Cheers!
EDIT (as I get the next video) ...while in the eight the outer elbow is actually pulled straight towards the bow, perhaps with the only exception of the great H.B. Back to work now!
Any reason for the glove on the right hand?
blisters