Hi Aram, in most of your video analyses, you focus on one piece of the rowing stroke. In this video, you put all the pieces together to help a beginner row, so I think this approach is useful and also interesting.
I have been teaching myself to row, primarily from your excellent Aram Training videos. I have no access to a rowing club, only the scull that I designed and built for our local lake. I appreciate how you bring so much of your teaching together in this video. Several times in this video you refer "use the hands like hooks." I find that noun to be useful. I also find it useful to apply the word "hang" as the verb. We hang from those hooks. This helps me engage the shoulders and lats to be prepared for "hanging from the oars" during the leg drive. An original concept I have found useful is to "lock the wrists to the pelvis" so as to not lose a centimeter of leg drive. This encourages me to engage lats, front ab chain, shoulders, and toned but relaxed arms. At the catch, when I first stabilize everything from the wrists to my pelvis, I get the most powerful leg drive that I can. Then I have the leisure of extending the power plateau with my hip pivot and arm pull.
Small alternative...I like to make a circle of the thumb & forefinger over the round on the end of the oar. This prevents the smashed thumbs most of us have had.
Would like to see a Learn To Row series. This is a GREAT number 1 of that series.
Hi Aram, in most of your video analyses, you focus on one piece of the rowing stroke. In this video, you put all the pieces together to help a beginner row, so I think this approach is useful and also interesting.
Thank you Ken!
Yes it's very very useful for all beginner and those mastering rower
I have been teaching myself to row, primarily from your excellent Aram Training videos. I have no access to a rowing club, only the scull that I designed and built for our local lake. I appreciate how you bring so much of your teaching together in this video. Several times in this video you refer "use the hands like hooks." I find that noun to be useful. I also find it useful to apply the word "hang" as the verb. We hang from those hooks. This helps me engage the shoulders and lats to be prepared for "hanging from the oars" during the leg drive. An original concept I have found useful is to "lock the wrists to the pelvis" so as to not lose a centimeter of leg drive. This encourages me to engage lats, front ab chain, shoulders, and toned but relaxed arms. At the catch, when I first stabilize everything from the wrists to my pelvis, I get the most powerful leg drive that I can. Then I have the leisure of extending the power plateau with my hip pivot and arm pull.
I very much look forward to your subsequent beginner's videos.
Biorower is very good for initation & improvement, everyone has their own way.
Small alternative...I like to make a circle of the thumb & forefinger over the round on the end of the oar. This prevents the smashed thumbs most of us have had.
I have found that sometimes starting with legs only and then adding body swing highlights to the athlete the benefit of the swing.
Yes, for some this works. So that they can better distinguish between drive and leverage