Sure, over the last several years, I have been a position where I _could_ have sharpened and would have improved my 2K _enormously_ if I _had_ sharpened, but as I have already explained, I never got it done.PaulH wrote:Any defense, or do you concede the point?
My new technique wasn't up to it.
You can't sharpen effectively if you are still futzing with your technique.
Let me venture this:
When done well, rowing is so repetitive and unconscious that it takes a half million strokes or so to get fully used to even a small change in technique.
Six months?
If you try to change your technique _entirely_, not just one dimension of it, but let's say, a couple dozen dimensions of it, the whole affair is quite an undertaking, especially if the changes are to be achieved gradually, one by one, as they have been for me, and perhaps must be for anyone.
Over the last eight years, I have changed, in pretty radical ways, almost every conceivable dimension of my stroke--drag, timing, sequencing, footwork, posture, length, rhythmicity, etc.
This has increased my peak force by 50%, shortened my drive time by 30%, increased my overall stroking power by 30%, etc.
My hope is that this improved technique will get me three seconds per 500m over 2K, despite my inevitable decline with age over the several years it has taken to make these technical improvements.
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