Sculling Technique
The extraction of the blades: according to my opinion, this is the most important phase because of the following reasons:
a) It helps the body to be in a correct position for entry.
b) Its determinative for maintaining balance during the rowing stroke.
c) If you make bad handing of the oars on this phase, the boat will be reduce the speed.
The successful extraction happens with a light pushing down the handles of the oars. We must be careful the handles do not touch the body because if it happens this has as a result of breaking the flow of rowing stroke and having a bad extraction.
In the second phase we must remember that the speed with which we turn away the handholds from the body should be the same as the one we had when we approached the body.
It is also important to remove the blades square, be clean from water and we bring them in horizontal position.
The entries of oars in water are being succeeded with a light elevation of arms and never with the elevation of shoulders or with locomotion of trunk of body. You should remember that the right place of body should be achieved from begging of re-establishment and not when we are before the entry of the blades, because this has as the result of the perturbation of the balance of boat. At the moment of the entry the muscles of back and abdominal should be stretched and relaxed so that the force should be rightly transported from the legs to the blades.
Some rowers during the entry of oars in the water, the seat leaves behind faster (known as kicking the seat), because the body does not in the right position to oppose. For this it should be given attention not only the right position of the body but also the right intensification of the up part of the body.
The propulsive phase or drive the rowing stroke. After the entry we have the drive, the correct retinue of the movement its legs back shoulders hands. You should step explosives the legs to oppose the back and you finish by pulling the shoulders and the hands. When the legs reach in their end then the back begins to open towards behind and we pull with shoulders and hands powerful so that we keep the acceleration up to the end.
The restoration. We should remember that first the hands should be stretched, then we bring the body in a corner of entry and finally the legs be pressed. The speed in which moves the body towards the stern should not in any case faster than the boats, because it will function suspending as for the acceleration of ship.
