For example, an 8-oared shell is 60 ft. Each oar is mounted in a swivel oarlock, which is attached to a rigger. Boat Position There are eight rowing positions in a racing shell. It is important to remember that all three sections of the boat are equally important. A good winning boat consists of athletes rowing together as a team under the direction of their coxswain. The coxswain is the eyes and ears of the boat. Once the race begins, he or she needs to be a good motivator because the coxswain is the only one who can talk to the rowers.
The Rowing Motion The whole body is involved in moving a shell through the water. Basically the stroke is made up of four parts: catch, drive, finish and recovery.
As the stroke begins, the rower is coiled forward on the sliding seat, with knees bent and arms outstretched — this is the catch. At the catch, he rows the oar into the water, picking up the speed of the boat and beginning to accelerate. As the upper body begins to uncoil against the driving legs, the arms are hanging on the oar handle, prying the boat passed the oar. During the finish, the oar handle is moved down drawing the blade out of the water. Rowing is also lower-impact than most sports.
You might be able to row when other sports are not an option. Crew is a self-cutting sport. Thus, the team does not make cuts. Rowing is not the most popular sport in America. But, if fame is not your only goal in life, then crew can help you. Crew is all about team. Students work for the group, not themselves. At crew you can truly belong to a great organization.
Follow Following. Granby Crew Join 79 other followers. Bow four - Seats one through four in the bow end of the boat. Bow pair - Seats one and two in the bow end of the boat. Bow-coxed boat - A shell configuration that places the coxswain near the bow instead of the stern. The coxswain lays nearly flat in this type of boat, so that only his or her head is visible. The bow-coxed configuration reduces wind resistance, and provides improved weight distribution.
Bucket rig - An rigging arrangement of an eight or four, where riggers two and three are on the same side of the boat. Button - A wide collar on the oar that prevents the oar from slipping through the oarlock.
Cadence - The rowing stroke tempo. In a coxed boat, the coxswain often calls the the cadence to keep the rowers synchronized. Catch - Stroke phase at the instant the oar blade enters the water. The rower is at full compression up the slide, and tries to reach as far as possible to obtain a long stroke. The boat is at its greatest moment of instability during the catch, placing a premium on balance.
Check - An abrupt deceleration of the boat caused by uncontrolled motion within the shell; usually a result of poor rowing technique. Check it down and Hold water - A coxswain's call that commands all rowers to drag their blades through the water perpendicularly, braking the boat. Collar - A ring around the oar sleeve, designed to position the oar and prevent slippage. Course - A straight area of a body of water, typically four to eight lanes wide, marked with buoys for rowing competitions.
High school races are usually 1, meters. An exception is the head race, which can be much longer three miles or more and follow a winding river course. Cox box - A battery-operated electronic device that combines a digital stroke rate monitor and elapsed time readout with a voice amplifier; the coxswain uses the cox box to manage the race and to make his or her commands more audible to the crew. The coxswain typically wears a headband-mounted microphone, which is attached by a wire to the cox box.
Coxswain, cox - Pronounced "cox-en," The coxswain is the person that steers the boat. It not only amplifies the cox'n's voice through a speaker system, but it has a built in stroke rate meter and a timer. Some boats, usually fours, may have a lie-down coxswain's position in the bow end instead of the sit-up position in the stern.
Most school and collegiate leagues, as well as international rowing events, have a minimum weight for coxswains. Also, minimum weights may differ from schools to colleges, from league to league, and at international events. Your school or college coach will know the coxswain's minimum weights. A cox'n below minimum weight can still cox but must carry a bag of sand or other deadweight to compensate for the weight deficiency. Crab - A crab is an event when a rower or sculler is unable to extract the oar blade from the water at the finish of the drive pulling phase of the stroke and a sloppy stroke occurs.
The result is usually a falter and some timing problems for a few strokes. However, an over-the-head crab is more serious. This usually causes a great deal of disruption in the boat and in most cases the crew must stop rowing, recover the oar, and then proceed. Still worse, but very rare, thus there is no term for it, is an ejection. This may happen when racing and the boat is moving very fast. The rower catches a crab and the oar handle gets caught in the stomach causing the rower to be catapulted out of the boat.
The crew must stop to collect the swimmer and then go on. Crew - American term for the sport of competitive rowing. Also used to refer to a particular rowing team. The term crew is used in American schools and colleges to designate the sport of rowing, such as Osprey Oars' Crew.
When outside of the academic sphere, the sport is known as rowing, as in the United States Rowing Association. The British and European universities and schools have rowing clubsand not crew clubs or varsity crew. When you use the term crew you shouldn't use the term team.
Traditionally, crew means a team of rowers. To say crew team is redundant. You may say rowing team. Deck - The closed-over portion of the hull at the bow and stern.
The deck sheds water and strengthens the hull. Sometimes still called the canvas, a reference to the material that shell decks used to be constructed of.
Dig deep - To thrust an oar too deeply into the water, resulting in loss of power. Synonymous with knife-in. Double - Seats two oarsmen, each individual with one oar. View more information on boat types and sizes. Drive - Stroke phase during which the rower presses with his or her legs against the foot stretchers and pulls on the oar s to force the blade through the water and propel the boat.
The drive phase is a coordinated full-body movement using the legs, back and arms. Midway through, after the knees come down, the rower leans back and pulls the oar s in with his or her arms. Ideal technique keeps the blade s just below the surface of the water and accelerates smoothly from start to the finish.
When I was a child, there was a sport called rowing; if four or more people rowed together in the same boat, they would be known as a crew. At some point, either before or during my childhood, the sport itself began to be known by the name crew.
To my great horror, when I went to college, I began to hear people speaking about the crew team, as in, "my roommate is thinking about joining the crew team.
When did "crew" become the name for the sport? I looked in my trusty but somewhat dated compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which did not shed any light on the matter, as this sense of the word "crew" was not to be found. More to the point, when did people start using "crew team"?
I did not find this phrase at all in the OED, nor did I expect to. In colleges, the term "crew" for the sport of rowing has been used in the United States for over a hundred years.
Here is a reference to "went out for crew", and Here is a Google Books reference from where the sport itself is called "boat-racing" but where "was on the crew" is used to mean that you participated in it. In my experience in the U. Finally, here is a record book from Syracuse university containing the dreadfully redundant phrase "The 'Varsity crew team began practice" which phrase seems to not have become common until much later.
I'm going to guess that you went to college sometime in the s, or early s, as that's when the term started to grow into common use, much to your "great horror. The Google Ngram shows the seemingly-redundant 2-word term gaining momentum in the s, and then increasing rather sharply in the s.
However, a bulk of the earlier occurrences of the phrase are referring to a small team of individuals working together outside of a rowboat, such as a team of factory workers , an aircraft crew , or a maintenance team. Still, a few references to the "crew team" — that is, the rowing team — stretch back into the s , such as this one , in the wake of the Kent State tragedy:.
Later in the week, members of the crew team rowed wearing black armbands, and some members of the track team also wore them while competing. Lind took up rowing at California State University, Long Beach when her then-boyfriend went out for the crew team.
Perhaps the most interesting occurrence I found was from a Stanford photographic history album , which had a picture of the " Crew Team.
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