Hey Greg
gregsmith01748 wrote:Boris: Your rowing looks good to me. The comments that others have made about keeping hands level on recovery and avoiding the habit of looking way down on some strokes are the only things that I noticed. In all other ways, I am envious of the precise sequencing in your recovery.
Thanks for your feedback, which I appreciated very much.
Status quo: I'm working on it. For lower rates, like 15-18 SPM, it's very difficult and feels quite unnatural for me. But I could reduce the amount of lowering my hands/arms. Means… Reaching the end of a stroke I still like/need to put my hands down, but don't scrub along my legs any more.
If keep my hands up (chain on same level) I can't sustain the lower rate, as I start to shorten my recovery and start to spee up (by SPM). On the other hand, on higher rates (>18) during short and intense sessions it feels quite good doing it the "new way".
During my research I found the
rowing technique with the moving hands quite often.
gregsmith01748 wrote:One suggestion to try to work on the hands dropping is to put a piece of tape below the chain at the chain guard high enough so that the chain rubs if you drop your hands. It makes a very annoying noise. It has to be reasonable tough tape (like duct tape) to survive.
Frrrrr… flapflapflap… frrr… flapflapflap… frrr… flapflapflap… "Horrible nice" sound to help to work on technique.