Technical Drills - coaching videos

Row with Eyes Closed

Rowing at a low rate, close your eyes. If you are rowing a single, be sure that a coach or friend is nearby to alert you to any danger. If rowing in a double or quad, have one sculler keep eyes open.

 

This exercise is useful to allow rower to concentrate on the feel of good balance, the connection of body to boat to river, and the flow of energy from rower's center of power, up through body, along arms and oar, and into the water.

Listen to the sound of the water as it rushes along the side of boat, listen to the sound of the slide, listen to the pivot of the oar in the oarlock.