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Welcome to rowing.zone – Introduce yourself
Hi
my name is Aram.
Thank you for joining rowing.zone.
My aim is to provide an online home for rowers of all kinds. I am sure, there a lots of things that have to be improved. I would appreciated, if you could send me any ideas you have got!
Enjoy your time here!
All the best, Aram
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Hi Aram, my name is Felipe and I’m a master rower and the current president of the Club de Regatas Valparaíso of Chile. Thanks to you for share all your knowledged in your YouTube Channel and now with this web site. Thanks.
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Good morning Felipe
thank you very much for your feedback and for joining the rowing zone.
How is the rowing community in Chile?
All the best, Aram
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Hi Aram, Andrea from Rome…started rowing 9 months ago…discovered my favourite sport at 59 years old…:😃
thanks for your interesting videos.. .hope to learn more here..
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Hello Nik and welcome to the rowing zone!
Thank you for joining and for your great feedback!
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My name is Nate. I’m fairly new to rowing. 40 years old. I started rowing as a means to condition for my profession as a K9 handler and SWAT operator. However I quickly started becoming obsessed with rowing for fun and sport. So now I am on a mission to perfect my technique and abilities on the rower as opposed to just a means to condition (which is also important!)
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Awesome to have you on board Nate! Welcome to the zone!
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Good morning!
Martin from Munich, I’m in my early fourties. Used to row competetively as a kid with varying degrees of success – at 1.9m and only 75-80kg I was just heavy enough that I could no longer row leightweight, but I was no match for real heavies. I know that you can compensate for a lot with good technique and efficency, but finesse was never my forte. (If I had something I could call an unfair advantage, that would be my exceptional stubbornness.)
During the following twenty years I had little chance to row, a couple of times per year only, and for the last decade mostly gigs (I think outside of germanic countries these boat types are called tubs or wherries?).
But at least I used that time constructively to bulk up. Life ist better at 100kg. 🙂
No rowing during corona at all, got back into the boat one year ago, and spent most of last fall in a racing shell (8+). Now I am trying to get back into the single. Kind of works, but I am still fighting with balance, particularly lacking confidence at the catch. I feel I am still giving up a lot of reach there. (But that might be because of a different boat set-up – the added upper body mass and volume necessitates moving the footstretcher fasr further to th estern than it would have been 25 years ago).@Aram , your videos have helped me tremendously. Having taught beginners and coached kids, I was pretty sure I had a decent understanding of rowing technique, but there are definitely aspects that were neglected back then. For example the use of upper body mass and your emphasis on pivoting at the hip… Back in the late 90s when I did my coach certificate it was all power from the legs, little attention to the finish except getting the blades out of the water withoub catching a crab and then fast hands away. I feel that using upper bofy pivot and concentrating on a solid finish helps tremendously with stability during the other phases of the stoke.
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Hi Martin,
welcome to the rowing.zone and thank you for your introduction!
I sincerely appreciate your feedback about the videos, and the fact that I was able to help a fellow coach!
“Life at 100kg is better”… 😁
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Salut. Je m’appelle Paul, j’ai 43 ans et je fais de l’aviron à Marseille en France.
Je suis passionné de compétition et je cherche constamment à m’ameliorer techniquement et physiquement.
Merci pour tes vidéos exceptionnelles !
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Salut Paul, bienvenu et merci de t’avoir présenté et merci de joindre le rowing.zone!
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Hey Aram, I am a junior rower from the UK and I have really enjoyed your videos over the past year or so. I have two questions: could you quickly analyse my rowing? and can you make a video on Olli Zeidler’s very interesting rowing as well as your thoughts on why he is so dominant, I think it could make an interesting video?
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Hi Theo,
thank you for signing up! I have already done a video analysis on Zeidler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5UR7lA970&pp=ygUUYXJhbXRyYWluaW5nIHplaWRsZXI%3D)
I am happy to help you with a youtube analysis (free of charge) as well. Please upload your footage to youtube and send me the link.
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When biking along a canal here in my hometown in the Netherlands in 2021 I sometimes saw rowers there. That looked like a lot of fun to this 53-years old.
So I joined the local rowing club in spring 2022. Having done some windsurfing when I was 16-30 I thought I would be able to master rowing quickly. Nope. After more than 18 months, what I do on the water is just barely starting to look like rowing. “Ten times as difficult and 100 times as much fun as I thought” is how I summarize those 18 months though.
2022 was the C4. This spring we started in the C2/C1. And I had about 10 training sessions in a skiff. As it’s getting colder now, I’ve returned to rowing in the C2/C1. No problem because there is still enough to learn in those boats for me. I’m 1.90 and 80kg, not particularly strong. This week I was able to the 1K in 4:55 in a C1. Nevertheless the ambition is to do some competitions next year, or at least train for them.They call me Inspector Gadget at our local club. I like the apps and the cameras that you can use. Rowing in Motion is my favorite app. And I also arranged walkie talkies and an adapter cable so coaches can give instructions over the coxbox while cycling along. (They still used the old fashioned megaphones, yes the ones without electronics, just the copper tube.) My goal is to film a rowing session with a 3d camera on the boat, someone cycling along and a drone. And then combine all those images in one synchronized video along with the Rowing in Motion acceleration curve. 🤓
I’m hooked, and I want to become the best rower I can within the obvious time (and money) constraints I have. But for me this comes with some frustration sometimes. All the tips and instructions look so simple, but for me they are so difficult to implement. How hard can it be to keep your arms straight during the first have of the rowing stroke? Well, for me it still takes a lot of concentration. And along that one there are 10 other things I need to focus on. But I can only do 1 or maybe 2 at the same time. And when my focus slips for half a second I’m back to the ‘autopilot’ stroke with all the mistakes to can imagine and then some.
But I think even simple videos can be of great help for rowers over every level. My theory is that 90% of the rowers in our club think they have much better technique than they actually have. Seeing a video of their rowing, although confronting, would help them a lot in improving their technique.
I’m far from being an expert. But after watching quite a few video analysis from you (and Decent Rowing to be honest) I can find some of the weak points. I need to slow down the videos significantly though. I’m always amazed how, even less experienced coaches at our club, can spot the mistakes after seeing someone rowing for 10 strokes.
I just watched the video about ROWING TRAINING PLANS. The last few months I mainly worked on my technique. It feels like I made a lot of progress there, but still a lof of room for improvement. Main takeaway for me was to work on all pillars the next months. Strength, flexibility (please, please, make that video), endurance and technique.
(We have 8 concept2’s at our club and I’m lobbying for a Biorower, but no luck so far.)
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Thank you for your introduction and welcome to the rowing zone! Great to have you here!
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Hi,
my name is Hagen. I’m 18 years old and a lightweight rower from germany.
I’ve been competitively rowing for four years now and always showed much interest into the technic and biomechanics of rowing. Therefore I’ve watched your channel for quite a long time. Now as I’ve moved out in order to study in another city and am not having a coach, I am even more looking for advises that can help me improve and become more efficient.
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Hi Hagen
great to have you here and thank you very much for your feedback!
If you have any specific video suggestions, please let me know how I can help!
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Hi Aram,
I really love and appreciate your video
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Hi Aram,
I’m a beginner at rowing, joined my newly started university rowing club, attended about 6 rowing session and have been mostly training by myself on the linear Concept 2 erg, following the Beginner’s Pete Plan. Your videos have really helped me for example, I was focused on exploding at the catch and your videos mentioning that I have to realise if my arms and trunk can actually handle that transfer of force were so helpful; I realised a consistent manageable force is much easier on the body and more effective for rowing. Also, your video on core with Dr. Med Charley Thora was extremely insightful, the cue about making sure your chest is up and forward made me realise I was slouching in my lower back at the start of my recovery. It is so interesting how much these small realisations and insights can help, I am sure it took you a lot of time and work to understand them and then to formulate it in a way that is easy to understand in a video. I have been thoroughly enjoying and greatly appreciate your video. Thank you for the work you are putting out, it really makes a difference.
P.s I realise that sometimes I use my shoulder to pull rather than my lats, a cue I have developed for myself is reminding myself that the crook of my elbows should point upwards, that makes me open up my chest more I believe. Do you think this is a good cue or am I making a mistake.
I tried editing my reply since I hit enter by accident but it didn’t work 😓so I had to make two posts sorry for the clutter.
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Hi Aram & Everybody. My name is Terry and I started rowing at age 64 in 2021 and compete in the “G” age group of USRowing events in the SE USA. At 5’ 8” (1.72m) and 170 pounds (77.5kg) I have to be as efficient as possible to compete with all those taller athletes! I think I’ve watched all your public YouTube videos and found them very helpful and I recently joined your coached program to work on all aspects of my rowing. I row in team boats (2x, 4x and 8+) and my Hudson 1x. Depending on the team boat average age, my seat moves from stern to bow. LOL! I stroke or #7 seat for the “old folks” mixed 8+ and #3 seat the men’s 8+. In 2025 I intend to focus on racing my 1x because in 2024 focusing on team boats has hampered my 1x rowing. The picture is of 2000m of my practice river, but I have over 20k of water like this to work on. We install the course in February each year for the College regattas that we host all Spring and then take it out after the Dogwood Masters Regatta in June. It’s a pretty idyllic setting for rowing!
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