Using Mirror Neurons to Learn
How watching videos of good rowing can help improve your technique.
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00:45 Using mirror neurons
Parts of our brain get activated when watching movement. Researchers noticed monkeys’ brains were firing when watching…
Up your intensity
Ways to improve speed of the oar through the water. Keep the stroke rate the same and increase the speed.
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00:45 This is a long term project.
Less experienced rowers push the…
Raise average boat speed
Three ways to get faster (or avoid slowing down) in training.
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00:45 Can you increase the average speed of your boat?
The net of how fast it accelerates in the power phase…
Rushing and shoulder lifting
What you do on the recovery affects what you do on the power phase.
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00:45 What you do on the recovery
What you do as you approach the catch is likely the…
Why delaying back swing is hard
The power phase is most effective when legs drive first and back follows yet so few masters rowers do this. Why?
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00:45 Good power phase requirements
The alignment of the womens double…
Why rowers sky at the catch
Why rowers push the handles down at the catch causing the blade to sky – and how to fix it.
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01:00 Roger Watts told me “oars are still creating hazards to…