What is adapted rowing?

Today we focus on the people who for various reasons khan not practice sport rowing but adapts. Rowing adapted is to form of the sport of rowing for people with disabilities, physical limitations or intellectuals, among which hearing impairment, paraplegia, quadriplegia, Down syndrome, blindness, visual impairment, multiple sclerosis, cerebral forked palsy is and spina.

Although it is not until the 2008 Summer Paralympics when competing for the first swindles Paralympic athletes in this discipline, since 2005 the tests for disabled part of the sports program at the International Championships of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) and for dwells twenty years it are been practiced in many clubs around the world.

There is the possibility of combining different disabilities within the same crew, allowing the integration of their components through sport.

Fundamental The techniques adapted rowing ploughs the same ace for odd number - disabled people rowing. Participants learn the elements of the race: strength, recovery, attack, management of trains, etc. Normal The learning curls is comparable to any novice rower and participants experience the same thrill in discovering our sport.

Adaptive Rowing unreturn in male and female athletes and, currently divided into four boat classes which ploughs(plough) part of the program of the World Championships FISA:

• LTA4 +, they are disabled rowers but function in arms trunk and legs, and hard to slide the seat, can participate in this class are four types of disabilities and mixed vessels.

• TA2x are athletes who have trunk movement but do not have the necessary strength in the lower extremities to slide the seat and propel the boat. Participants may be physically disabled and mixed cerebral palsy and boats.

• AW1x, athletes without function or minimal trunk function, being female participation and physical disabilities may be paralyzed or brain.

• AM1x, athletes without function or minimal trunk function, being male participation and may be physically disabled or cerebral palsy.

The tours are over a distance of 1000 meters for the four tests.

Dear colleagues and friends from the writers of this blog hats off to all athletes who practice their favorite sport adapted to their physical or mental limitations. Examples all !!