S10ps?

[[old] michaelb]

Thanks, I pretty much agree. I won't ever be fast, so I decided for me I would rather look good being slow. Plus, I might actually get a little bit faster.

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-Coach Gus+Feb 7 2006, 05:19 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Coach Gus @ Feb 7 2006, 05:19 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The point I was making that PaulS seems to want to ignore is that if you are only erging, then you don't care about on water technique.  You don't have to easily transition to anything.  All you care about is going fast on the erg. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />I'm glad you only say "seems to want to ignore", because that is quite far from the truth. Surely you are not suggesting that the way that has been well established for moving a handle from the catch to the release with the greatest power in a boat is somehow magically transformed into something else when the handle is attached to a flywheel! The one thing that will change is the ratio of Drive to recovery, shorter on the Erg due to the nature of the flywheel itself and the leverage of not letting it slow too much prior to spinning it up again (there is no "run" to be maximized on the Erg).<br /><br />By ignoring the fundamentals of good technique, you may go faster in the short term on the Erg, but then the plateau is going to happen and the bad habits will be hard to break, making for a long time on the plateau and this can be discouraging for the folks that were motivated by the very rapid early gains that everyone experiences.<br /><br />It all depends on the meaning of "fast" is.<br /><br />Apparently you also missed my very clear example of Matthias Siejkowski, a pretty fast guy with a very long history of CRASH-B victories, and he has never been anything close to a "thrasher" on the Erg.<br /><br />The optimal "technique" will always be consistent, though there may be various "styles" used that capitalize on the unique strengths and weaknesses of individuals. Of course the goal of the coach is to maintain the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses so that eventually both technique and style come together.<br /><br />I really was trying to stay out of this thread, and frankly Michaelb did a great job of responding early on.