Rowing strapless

coggs · Post by **coggs** » September 19th, 2006, 3:38 pm

I find straps dig into my shoulders when I "strap in" so I always wear a sports bra.

Steelhead · Post by **Steelhead** » September 20th, 2006, 12:54 am

It's taken me a while, but I now am able to erg strapless at 30 SPM, I use a low resistence and once I am warmed up and going I do consistently get up to 30 or 31 and then back off to 27. Also, my feet now stay flat and maybe once in a while my heel will raise a little. BUT I'm not breaking any speed records, so I think you guys that row fast would have trouble at 30. Although once in a while now at high SPM I have had my feet come off, which is quite energizing when it happens and I have to recover without flying off.

rtmmtl · Post by **rtmmtl** » September 21st, 2006, 6:35 pm

Take a look at my signature.

For what it's worth I got my C2 D ten days ago, I did a lot of reading before and since I got it. Saw something about strapless and shoeless and tried it, did not have shoes on and was that anxious to try it out after putting it together.

Now my times are very slow, but sans straps and shoes, I have done up to 24-26 SPM and DPS 5.8/6 meters without any problem, no falling out of seat, etc. Have done two 2ks like this, no problems.

So apparently in my case ignorance is bliss. Good, I almost always hang in the house barefoot or socks.....don't have to put on shoes to row.

Not to hijack this thread....but is DPS 6 meters decent for a beginner?

HammerHead Sk8r · Post by **HammerHead Sk8r** » September 25th, 2006, 2:08 pm

coggs wrote:I find straps dig into my shoulders when I "strap in" so I always wear a sports bra.

That's funny!

HammerHead Sk8r · Post by **HammerHead Sk8r** » September 25th, 2006, 2:16 pm

On a different note, as I said in my earlier post I just started rowing in late July with the arrival of my C2 and have rowed strapless since the beginning so like the previous poster ignorance was bliss.

I did however have something happen to me yesterday in a row that was both comical and potentially an injury waiting to happen. I am been working on technique and pace a great deal the last three weeks since I got a technique video from Xeno. While pushing it a bit during my 10000 m row (at every 100m before another 1000m was ticked off I would push the pace through the last hundred and for the first hundred in the next group of a 1000...example: lifting the pace from 5100m to go to 4900m to go) I was trying to extend my reach toward the fan for extended pull and over shifted forward so much that I literally came off of my seat forward and on the drive back got NOTHING BUT RAIL! The seat shot all the way back to the end of the slide.

I was able to catch myself but not before I almost toppled completely in the floor. Needless to say it was another of my newbie rower dork moments...