As we discussed, the objective within this blog "Olympic Rowing and Traditional" was to develop a sports blog in which you communicate with and grow the sport. We hope you enjoyed all of you, our readers, then video streaming link we leave, through which will make the presentation of this blog for our course and make his defense. This presentation will take place on May 18, 2015, at 09:43 hours.
Just give the play at that time, that day! Here the link:
With all this, we say goodbye, but we are confident that there will be a goodbye but a see you later, then we will do our utmost to continue this blog and keep informing and giving things about this sport for you. Thanks for being there all this time, hopefully you have enjoyed and may be able to continue enjoying the sport, which is important.
Today, we will talk specifically of one of the elements of equipment of rowing. It seems obvious, but the oars from our point of view are some of the most important materials in this sport. Without them, we could not could propel, which would be impossible to practice this sport. Why, then, we offer a detailed description of these:
Oars are used to propel the boat. They are long (sculling: 250–300 cm; rowing 340–360 cm) poles with one flat end about 50 cm long and 25 cm wide, called the blade. Classic oars were made out of wood, but modern oars are made from more expensive and durable synthetic material, the most common being carbon fiber.
An oar is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling. A sculling oar is shorter and has a smaller blade area than the equivalent sweep oar. The combined blade area of a pair of sculls is however greater than that of a single sweep oar, so the oarsman when sculling is working against more water than when rowing sweep-oared. He is able to do this because the body action in sculling is more anatomically efficient (due to the symmetry).
The spoon of oars is normally painted with the colours of the club to which they belong. This greatly simplifies identification of boats at a distance. As many sports teams have logos printed on their jerseys, rowing clubs have specifically painted blades that each team is associated with.
We had never dealt with this issue in depth, so today, we want to leave you a slideshare presentation of rowing and its rules, and the differences that may exist between different federations or clubs. Hopefully you like dear bloggers!
With the increasing pressures on our environment and countless experts alerting us to impending crises, it is worth remembering that there is just one natural resource on which all life on our planet depends - but which most of us take for granted: H2O - Water. But for the 1.1 billion people who currently have no access to safe, drinking water, and the 4 billion for whom WWF projects it will be a scarcity by 2050, this shortage is a matter to be taken very seriously.
For this reason, any single body of fresh, clean water is already sought after by many different groups, whether by flora, fauna, industry, agriculture, municipalities or, those who just like to row.
Rowing is a clean water sport, and so rowers have a number of very good reasons to be part of the "Clean water movement". On the one hand, our sport and its future depend on it; but on the other hand, we cannot be selfish in our approach to its use. As a sports federation, FISA believes that we all have a responsibility to apply environmentally-sustainable practices in the use and management of water. But we must do more and we must encourage others to do the same.
Fortunately, we have a great number of knowledgeable, experienced and enthusiastic people within our rowing family around the globe. And we know that sport is a very powerful means of communication to all age groups. So FISA has decided not to just take part in the debate, but to take a leadership position.
In 2011 they commenced a Strategic Alliance with WWF International (World Wide Fund for Nature). WWF is the world’s largest and most respected independent nature conservation organisation, with more than 5 million supporters and a network active in more than 100 countries across all continents. Since its creation in 1961, it has maintained a constant record of success. Today, WWF runs about 1,300 projects around the world at any one time and employs more than 5,400 people worldwide. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
Significantly, WWF is working to protect freshwater ecosystems and improve water access, efficiency, and allocation for people and the environment, which is why their partnership is a perfect fit in promoting clean water, one of the main priorities of WWF.
Care for the environment. So, not only we will gain in quality of life we and other living beings, but also take care of our sport, rowing!
Hello rowers! Today I you bring a video of since a Trainera of carbon is made by diffusion, though it is in Spanish it seems to me to be very interesting, since that is a very new project of the Basque government to spread his sport the trainera rowing on that so often we have commented in our post.
Then we'd like to leave you a list of all possible Equipment that can be used in rowing. Here goes:
Blade The flattened, or spoon-shaped, part of an oar that touches the water during rowing.
Boot A device that holds the bow of a boat before a race, then drops below the water on the starting signal.
Bow The forward section of a boat.
Bowball A rubber ball attached to the bow tip of a shell to protect against damage and injury in case of a collision.
Button A collar around the shaft of the oar that keeps the oar from slipping through the oarlock and can be adjusted up and down the oar to increase or decrease leverage.
Cox Box An electronic device used by the coxswain to amplify his or her voice and broadcast it through speakers located throughout the shell.
Double A sculling boat for two rowers.
Eight A sweep-oar boat with eight rowers and a coxswain.
Fin A small, flat piece of wood or plastic attached perpendicularly to the bottom of the shell to help the shell stay on a true course; also known as a "skeg".
Four A sweep-oar boat for four rowers, with or without a coxswain.
Gate A bar across the oarlock to prevent the oar from popping out.
Gunwale A horizontal strip of wood running the length of a shell, to which the ribs and other parts traditionally are attached.
Handle The part of an oar held by an oarsman.
Keel The body of the shell that runs from box to stern.
Loom The part of an oar between the blade and the handle.
Oar A lever used to propel and steer a boat through water, consisting of a long shaft of wood with a blade at one end.
Oarlock A U-shaped device on a boat's gunwale where the oar rests and swings; also called a "rowlock".
Outrigger A framework attached to the shell and used to support the oarlock; also called a "rigger".
Pin The metal rod upon which the oarlock is mounted.
Rib A U-shaped piece of fabricated wood, aluminium or carbon fibre that supports the hull by fitting inside the shell between the keel and the gunwale.
Rigger A framework attached to the shell and used to support the oarlock; also called an "outrigger".
Rowlock A device on a boat's gunwale where the oar rests and swings; also called an "oarlock".
Rudder A device under the shell of a boat used to steer it.
Scull One of two short oars worked from side to side over the stern of a boat as a means of propulsion.
Shell A rowing boat.
Skeg A small, flat piece of wood or plastic attached perpendicularly to the bottom of the shell to help the shell stay on a true course; also known as a "fin".
Sleeve The plastic jacket on the shaft of the oar upon which is mounted a button, used to secure the blade to the oarlock.
"In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit and honour of our team."
—Olympic Oath taken by an athlete of the host country on behalf of all assembled Olympians.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
French educationist Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) is credited with the revival of the Modern Olympic Games. He thought that at least one reason for the flowering of Greece during it's "Golden Age" was sport and the ideals behind the Olympic Games.
He wanted to bring the youth of the world together in friendly competition where differences of status, religion, politics and race could be forgotten.
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part. Just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
—Baron Pierre de Coubertin, 1908. These words now appear on the scoreboard at every Opening Ceremony.
It is a clear that not all differences were to be ignored by him: he followed the Ancient Greek example of male only competition. Much to his chagrin, two women's swimming events were introduced in 1912 and, gradually ever since, women's events have continued to increase in number.
Between 1892 and 1894 he sought support for the modern Olympic Games from both within France and throughout the world. He convened the Congress Internationale Athletique de Paris (Paris International Athletic Congress) which decided on 16th June 1894 to "revive the Olympic Games on principles and in the conditions to the requirements of modern life".
"The Olympic Games are not merely world championships, but the celebration of impassioned effort, of multiple ambitions and of every form of youth activities as each generation appears at the threshold of life."
—Baron Pierre de Coubertin
Baron de Coubertin was a keen sculler who rowed well into his later life. He was a member of Societe d'Encouragement du Sport Nautique, the oldest rowing club on the Marne River in France.
He described rowing as the most beautiful of sports. The Baron thought so much of the sport that he sought to include sculling as one of the disciplines in the modern pentathlon in place of shooting. It was only the question of the additional administrative burden imposed on Olympic officials that dissuaded him.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin sculling on Lac Leman
Picture from 'The Story of World Rowing' — Christopher Dodd 1992
Speaking for ourselves, we see clearly as the Baron Pierre de Coubertin promoted our sport and all others by the Olympic Games. An example for everyone, who fought in favor of an egalitarian sport.
Hello rowers! The last sunday 3 of may, was the last regatta of traditional mediterranean rowing, the SUMA LEAGUE finished for me and for my young team, remaining fifth of league.
It was very exciting since only 6 were qualifying for the championship of Spain. It was one very emotive day for this beginner club that never existed row in Altea at least had managed to compete in a Championship of Spain.
Now 3 weeks stay up to the national appointment in Murcia, we will keep you informed! I leave you the news of the newspaper of her region.
For some time now some wonder ... The Spanish rowing has a future? Do our athletes are able to compete in the Olympic Games? The answer to these questions was rapid, forceful and concise; Yes.
But to build that future, certainly it requires changing the current Federal Management (today actually does not exist). Thus, a group of referees, executives, rowers and Technicians very diverse geographical and ideological origins, gradually gave shape to an idea that beating and commented on all National Regatta, in which it was crying and insistence a radical change in the course of our sport.
It does not try to change some people by others, to continue doing more or less the same. All we have to do is open a new path, a different path, seeking the best for our sport, from the debate and dialogue.
It is the duty of all to build it from both posts or executive positions, and from participation bodies. Surely you can also contribute.
