What are the benefits of Strapless rowing?

[Carl Watts]

Yeah its okay for slow paces but its not going to work otherwise. You have slight slope on the rail and a few pounds of pull of stored energy to get you back in the shock cord so its pretty obvious that high power and high ratings are never going to work strapless. Something needs to keep your feet anchored to the foot stretchers to get back to the catch with any amount of speed. Ultimately its your leg muscles that do the work.

[hjs]

Yeah its okay for slow paces but its not going to work otherwise. You have slight slope on the rail and a few pounds of pull of stored energy to get you back in the shock cord so its pretty obvious that high power and high ratings are never going to work strapless. Something needs to keep your feet anchored to the foot stretchers to get back to the catch with any amount of speed. Ultimately its your leg muscles that do the work.

Not true, full sprinting is indeed off, but up around 5k pace is perfectly doable. Rating up to 28/30 are in reach if you really try.

[Dangerscouse]

Not true, full sprinting is indeed off, but up around 5k pace is perfectly doable. Rating up to 28/30 are in reach if you really try.

Yeah, I can hold a 1:46 pace, but it has to be circa r26, I'm still not convinced I can manage any higher.

Martin, not that long ago, did some strapless rowing at r30, and also very fast IIRC.

[MartinSH4321]

Not true, full sprinting is indeed off, but up around 5k pace is perfectly doable. Rating up to 28/30 are in reach if you really try.

Yeah, I can hold a 1:46 pace, but it has to be circa r26, I'm still not convinced I can manage any higher.

Martin, not that long ago, did some strapless rowing at r30, and also very fast IIRC.

Yeah, it was R30 @ 1:28 pace, but only for a few strokes, and the strokes wasn't pretty . The fastest strapless I've seen so far was Chris Scott, he did it around 1:20 pace!

[hjs]

Not true, full sprinting is indeed off, but up around 5k pace is perfectly doable. Rating up to 28/30 are in reach if you really try.

Yeah, I can hold a 1:46 pace, but it has to be circa r26, I'm still not convinced I can manage any higher.

Martin, not that long ago, did some strapless rowing at r30, and also very fast IIRC.

Yeah, it was R30 @ 1:28 pace, but only for a few strokes, and the strokes wasn't pretty . The fastest strapless I've seen so far was Chris Scott, he did it around 1:20 pace!

I pulled a 143 6k, and a 145 10k. Both maybe 1 second above strapped in. Real sprinting is a nogo, the stroke will become very off.