PaulH wrote:Show us a piece that contains more than one consecutive stroke of you rowing at 13 spi and at low drag. You state this as a fact, and yet we've never seen it. That wouldn't demonstrate that your prediction is right
By "piece," you mean "race"?
That's what I am going to do with a FM.
That's my first race, fully prepared, rowing well (13 SPI) at low drag (119 df.).
But you are avoiding my initial question.
What sort of evidence would you look for that would demonstrate that someone who is a WR-holder, and therefore whose fitness is maximal, has made certain sorts of promising technical progress?
That is, how would you measure promising advances in things like effectiveness and efficiency, rather than just fitness?
Just by faster racing?
That is, do you assume that, if you change your form radically, in many ways, over a relatively long period of time, that each little way you change it for the better will contribute a new increment of speed to your racing, right then, because every improvement in technique is independent of every other improvement in technique, even though there might be, I don't know, fifty pretty big things you can work on, one by one?
For instance, if you learned to use your legs and feet appropriately, as I did pretty early on, but still rowed at max drag, should the better use of my legs have shown up in faster 2K times?
Or would you assume that the only way to take advantage of an appropriately quick and powerful use of your legs at the catch depends on lowering the drag and dealing with all of the differences in timing, ratio, rhythm, etc., entailed by _that_ change, too?
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Rich Cureton M 72 5'11" 165 lbs. 2K pbs: 6:27.5 (hwt), 6:28 (lwt)
