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Rowing Technique

Improving technique may be the most efficient way to get faster. Here are some guidelines and resources. Visit this section of the site monthly for updates:

Set a goal to fix your most promising technical flaw this year and attack it just like any of your training goals.
Spend part of every practice working on technique. Focus on just one or two things for several days, or even two or three weeks.
Do drills with discipline. Mindlessly doing drills will not improve technique, and it may make it worse.
Get videotaped on the water, and erg and lift in front of mirrors.
Think about improving technique right to the last strokes of a workout. If your 10 minute cool down is sloppy every day, you might be wasting an hour a week when you could have been improving!

Drills - how to do them and what part of the stroke they help

Overview of rowing technique - a short paper on technique and coaching cues

Tom's articles in Rowing News - packed with ways to improve technique

Fixing Common Mistakes - photos and video clips with comments from tbfit.com archives, on the erg and on the water.