Rockin Roland wrote:You certainly can't practise timing at the catch on a static C2 erg like you think your doing.
Yes, you can.
That's what I am doing now.
The erg certainly _encourages_ you to mess up your timing of the catch, and that is certainly what I did for almost a decade.
But I am not doing it now.
Many of the best ergers are also the best OTW rowers, and vice versa.
There is no incompatibility between the two.
If you know how to do a proper catch OTW, you can do it OTErg, too.
It is just those who don't know how to do a proper catch OTW who don't know how to do a proper catch OTErg.
In blithe ignorance, they don't know what they are missing.
Even for the erg, a proper OTW catch OTErg, done at low drag, is more effective and efficient than any other sort of catch.
It is just harder to get right, as it is OTW, too.
It is not at all natural to take the catch with an upright posture at full compression entirely with the legs with the hips forward and the shoulders and core relaxed until the legs are done.
And at high drag, OTErg, this sort of OTW catch can't be done at all.
At high drag, you can't push your legs through quickly enough to get the timing right if you use the full slide, and you must use the full slide in order to get your angles of leverage right in the various parts of the OTW stroke.
If you are just learning how to do an OTW catch, OTErg, it is best done at minimal drag (e.g., 75 df.) to get used to the quickness and timing of the legs and footwork.
As I have been mentioning, if you do a proper OTW catch at low drag, OTErg, you can't help but get in and around 13 SPI for lightweight males, 16 SPI for heavyweight males--just naturally.
And, of course, almost no one does.
So almost no one does a proper OTW catch OTErg.
ranger
Rich Cureton M 72 5'11" 165 lbs. 2K pbs: 6:27.5 (hwt), 6:28 (lwt)
