Simon Cox — Swiss now Czech republic ……….. Tom Poulsen — View that using weights could have helped him set an even faster world record but only by 1 second perhaps….. Use of weights…………Small centralised system…….. The goal of training is never to get everyone to the same level but to develop each athlete to their potential.
Athletes will go to their coaches for advice on rowing, training, and life. They want to talk about their social issues and relationship problems. Coaches have to find the time because this problem may be the most important thing in the world to the athlete. You might be the only person they feel comfortable coming to and you never know when a subtle knock on the door or leading question is actually going to require you to drop everything to be there for that person.
Coaches are often responsible for a budget that includes boats, ergs, oars, repairs, travel, and a myriad of smaller expenses. Coaches of club teams may be responsible for raising the money for their own budget AND salary.
At the collegiate varsity level, there is required paperwork associated with NCAA compliance and tracking the grades of every athlete. Coaches often attend alumni events to help their institution raise money and celebrate the past successes of former athletes. Events mean time away from focusing on the team and from family, and working towards building the program for long term success.
All of that extra work can be exhausting and is absolutely necessary. Full-time and part-time collegiate coaches need to recruit. Good recruiters will scour the country and look internationally to bolster the team. To communicate with these athletes, coaches often keep office hours late at night or early in the morning to call athletes on a different coast or abroad. Recruiting also requires coaches to meet with these athletes, either on campus or during an official visit or sometimes during a home visit.
That could mean flying across the country for a couple of days and being away from the team. The recruiting component takes an enormous amount of time and is a job unto itself. The very best programs in the country also have the best recruiters. From club and scholastic teams to jobs and volunteerism all on top of their other enrichment they are busy during the typical timeframe and well into the evenings. A coach will often enter into a contract with their athletes.
It may not always be written down, but they will be very clear about what they are both trying to achieve. They do not need to have the same goals, but they need common ground on which to work. Sometimes the goal is not so clear, and maybe the athlete is not so confident about committing to the goal.
They may not even vocalise it, for fear of failing to achieve it. In this situation a coach must be careful not to assume that they are on the same path. If the coach and athlete do not communicate openly and clarify their position with each other it will lead to friction, misunderstanding, disappointment and poor results.
Straightaway there is a power imbalance in the relationship between coach and athlete. This can be counterproductive. These have nothing to do with age or family relations. It is purely a way of defining how we relate to each other. Either response may well not be useful.
If they do not reply at all, and become a passive submissive athlete, that can seem good as they are doing what they are told but at the cost of inhibiting them from being a complete athlete. With a more vocal responder, a coach may receive an aggressive reply which leads to the coach making their own poor response, as they do not want to be challenged in front of their athletes.
An experienced coach will be able to identify and defuse these situations before they have the chance to deteriorate. This is where the power balance is crucial. By modelling this behavior the athlete will invariably come-round. The person in the position of power has to model the behaviour first. A good coach bears in mind that most communication is non-verbal. A coach knows that what they say is not the most important thing.
There is no point sounding positive, if your body language exudes negativity. The negativity might be due to an unrelated issue, but it still comes across. If the coach turns up like that every day athletes will of course get used to it, but when they then turn up in a good mood the athletes will become suspicious. The aim is to produce high functioning, self-actualising athletes who will do whatever it takes to be successful.
They will be alert, punctual, driven, motivated, resilient, hygienic etc. But getting to that state is no small feat, and remaining there is just as hard. I feel these are things every coach preaches; you just have to keep on it but at the same time not get hung up on it. Patience into the catch is crucial and it takes X amount of time for the catch to happen, so be patient.
The best path to good catching is to ignore the catch while you work on something else, like good body preparation and a continuous drive connection through to the release. The act of thinking about the catch seems to mess it up.
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Support Us! Related Stories. Comments Log in to comment Posting Post Cancel. The best coaching technique is that of Drew Ginn. Nothing in the article comes close.
None display the essence of the continuous dynamic technique required. Kleshnev's research is ignored. Working from home with lots of time to reflect on the theory rather than the practice of rowing presents an opportunity to posit on how to define and optimize the most efficient stroke. So this is a good time to reflect on what biomechanics tells us.
Putting past as prolog years ago during one of the recurring instances of bubonic plague Newton, had to leave Cambridge and self-quarantine at his ancestral farm during It was during that time with lots of time to think that he posited his theory, which the Royal Society published as the "Principia" 20 years later. What better time than during the current pandemic to review how Newtons second law tells us everything about how we should analyze the rowing stroke, particularly the catch, which is at once both the beginning and the end of the stroke cycle.
As the prime mover power source in this system, the rower is the biggest mass 6x that of the boat or the rowers part of a crew boat the rower supplies the force during the drive portion of the stroke and the rowers mass provides the kinetic energy during the recovery portion resulting in almost equal amounts of positive force during the stroke cycle. This is seen at race pace with efficient crews generating only the average boat velocity of the stroke cycle at the end of the drive, but almost twice that velocity the maximum just before the next catch.
Using engineering license I equivocate the drive when the oars are in the water propelling the boat as Impulse and Momentum as the recovery force when the rowers mass is equally propelling the boat to its maximum velocity just before the catch. Analyzing this tells you that the handle speed attached to body mass should be maximum just before the catch with a quick catch coinciding with a square-up and forceful lifting of the hands, but no body movement toward the bow which would result in a negative force.
There was a picture of a drill which I had never seen before recently in Row2K of an entire 8 all standing up at the catch. This was, of course, a drill, but I have to commend the coach, whoever he or she is, understands rowing physics. The take-home is that the system mass must stay the same with the boat and the rowers accelerating as one, both at the catch and during the drive.
The body must not increase in velocity any more than the boat's natural resistance to system mass acceleration of boat, oars, and especially rowers mass will allow.
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