Gloves

[old] TheHagueDragon · Post by **[old] TheHagueDragon** » November 15th, 2004, 11:07 am

My hands get wet and slippery when i row longer distances. I think using gloves helps to have more grip.

[old] gorow9 · Post by **[old] gorow9** » November 15th, 2004, 7:00 pm

Poggies, they're incredible... use em for rowing, biking and kayaking... they go around the oar and your hand but your hand still touches the oar so they don't decrease grip or feeling etc. Anyway I just got back from a bikiride using poggies... they worked pretty well too. Anybody else use them? ~Sara~ PS: You can make them with socks... cut off the toe and you have one. The only thing is that if you row sweep you have to cut two holes one on each end... but it's better to have waterproof ones if it's rainy/snowy/ or gross and sleeting.

[old] GeorgeD · Post by **[old] GeorgeD** » November 16th, 2004, 12:48 am

At the gym I train at the owner was going to go up on the roof the other day because there were a row of stains on the carpet and he thought the roof was leaking --- turns out they were all in pairs and all about 1/2m behind the ergs and it was where the sweat comes off my elbows on long rows. I am one of those lucky people who gets to experience on the water rowing while never leaving the machine - just a puddle. But never find my hands slipping on the handle and the only time it might be an issue is on something like a 500m - George

[old] chudwell · Post by **[old] chudwell** » November 18th, 2004, 5:32 pm

Gloves are for woosies Just kidding...use them if you must. You must be working hard if your hands are that sweaty. Whatever it takes to keep erging regularly. It's easy to identify other rowers by their callused hands and by the slide grease on the back of their calves. Some slides would actually draw blood! (older Kaschper or Shoenbrod?). Those were the days.

[old] Coach Gus · Post by **[old] Coach Gus** » November 18th, 2004, 8:43 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (TheHagueDragon @ Nov 15 2004, 07:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> My hands get wet and slippery when i row longer distances.  </td></tr></table> Are you using a C or D handle? The D handle seems to be less slippery for some people. I'm like George in that I'm flinging sweat off my arms and dripping sweat off my face onto the slide. I'm soaked during my row including my hands, but don't have a problem with my hands slipping using my D handle.

[old] Byron Drachman · Post by **[old] Byron Drachman** » November 18th, 2004, 9:52 pm

Hey Sara, Did you make your own pogies out of socks, or did you buy them? If you bought them, where did you get them? I tried to buy some mail order once but they never arrived. My main use would be for winter cycling. If you have an old jacket you can sacrifice, you can also use the upper part of the sleeves and part of the jacket near where the sleeve joins the jacket, but that involves some sewing. As far as gloves when erging goes, I prefer the calluses I get to wearing gloves. Byron

[old] Kudos · Post by **[old] Kudos** » November 18th, 2004, 11:33 pm

please help the rest of our images and do not wear gloves. I am already taking style point hits as it is being a rower, and rowers as a people do not need the bad stereo type of being a people who wear gloves

[old] SteveV · Post by **[old] SteveV** » November 19th, 2004, 2:41 am

Try these from C2 UK <a href='http://www.concept2.co.uk/shop/hand_pads.php' target='_blank'>C2 UK Shop</a>

[old] gsedun · Post by **[old] gsedun** » November 22nd, 2004, 12:39 pm

I have an erg and I row on water at Elk Lake in Victoria and i personally have never used gloves or poggies, once my friend tried biking gloves on the water and he got huge blood blisters and that was after his hands were already well seasoned. And the general word down at the club is that uf u must use gloves use poggies.

[old] eurofoot13 · Post by **[old] eurofoot13** » November 22nd, 2004, 3:14 pm

well, I'd think that the puropse of gloves is to avoid the callouses on the hands, or rather the blisters before the callouses. Pogies really don't do anyhthing for this though, they just keep my hands toasty warm, and allow me to build up my callouses

[old] gorow9 · Post by **[old] gorow9** » November 23rd, 2004, 9:33 am

Hey Byron, When I came home and described them to my family my brother said that we had some in the atic... for my dad's kayaking that were never used. You could try <a href='http://www.jlracing.com/pogies.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.jlracing.com/pogies.shtml</a> or just look in the local sporting store like a camping outdooesy store. Try www.rowersworld.com or www.row2k.com they may have some. I'd recomend pogies that are waterproof and lined... but fleece are also nice... or so I hear. Good luck ~Sara~

[old] Byron Drachman · Post by **[old] Byron Drachman** » November 23rd, 2004, 10:23 pm

Hi Sara or anybody, Thanks for that link. The pogies at JLRacing look great. Now I have another question. Which kind should I order? The choices are port sweep, starboard, and sculling pogies. My use will be for winter cycling, so my hands will be on the handlebars, which are vertical. I'm hoping to enclose my hands, the handlebars, and the shifting and brake levers inside the pogies. Here is my trike that I'm getting ready for winter cycling. That white fairing in front is a homemade fairing and that really helps keep the feet warm by keeping the wind off the feet. <a href='http://www.math.msu.edu/~drachman/cycle ... g_side.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.math.msu.edu/~drachman/cycle ... r> Many thanks. Byron

[old] JosephNovak · Post by **[old] JosephNovak** » November 24th, 2004, 2:13 am

Okay, so there are at least nine sissies on the forum;) My god -- Gloves on the erg??? I don't even wear pants some days! Seriously though, avoid pogies on the bike. They were not meant to go around break levers, you'll just get into trouble. Think road pizza. Go by the bike shop and get a pair of gloves. They come in fall breathable and winter "sweaty groin hands" gortex, and all give enough finger room to pull the break lever. And leather palms just in case. Nothing worse than losing a seasons worth of rowing calluses in 2 seconds in an eoe. I speak from experience. And keep real with the pogies on the river too. I don't get much use out of my ice-pick on rowing days. Once icicles can form on my pant-clad-less things, I stick indoors. On just nippy "they probably won't fall off" days, I wear the pogies out for warm-up and then take them off. Best, "Pants-less" Joe

[old] gorow9 · Post by **[old] gorow9** » November 24th, 2004, 7:14 pm

Yea I tend to erg with pogies and a winter jacket. OK realy if u'r going to use poggies on a bike buy ones specifically designed for biking look at this link, I just bought lobster mitts with the 3 finger seperation because my poggies didn't fit around the brakes on the bike... but then again yours is an interresting contraption... who knows them may fit. Anyway try a local bike shop and and bring u'r bike to see if the poggies fit. I'd call and ask if they have pogies firstt thought. <a href='http://www.icebike.org/Clothing/handprotection.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.icebike.org/Clothing/handpro ... r> Hope that helps ~Sara~

[old] eurofoot13 · Post by **[old] eurofoot13** » November 25th, 2004, 12:57 am

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (JosephNovak @ Nov 24 2004, 01:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'> Once icicles can form on my pant-clad-less things, I stick indoors. On just nippy "they probably won't fall off" days, I wear the pogies out for warm-up and then take them off.  </td></tr></table> You go in that early? geez, I'd be off the water mid-september here in Vermont

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