Once the athletes are on the water it’s a good idea when their initially learning to have an experienced athlete in the bow that can just sit there and balance the boat. This same applies to a quad. Sitting tall with a straight back. Then practice what we call taps. This is tapping like this in order to get the concept of the forearm pushing the oar down. You will note that it’s not the shoulders pushing the oar. It’s simply the oar pushing the forearm pushing the oar down. Then this moving to the next stage where we’d have the tap and the separation. Again the forearm tapping and then the arm straight, but without the shoulders moving forward.
The next sequence is where we go to the body over. We rock over like that rocking over from the pelvis. We go back to the finish again. Taps, body over position. So the sequence being to straighten the arms first and then rock over to the body.
The next stage is to come down the slide. Holding that same body position all the way into the catch and then squaring up just before they get to the catch and taking the catch and then here we’re demonstrating taps of the catch. Again, put the blade in and it’s put in with the arms only and not by lifting the shoulders.
Thanks to decentrowing.com
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