Please explain using layman terms for this short rower.

In my opinion the wrist position is not a limiting factor , it doesn’t effect the blade work at the finish and it doesn’t effect the power application .

They should have spent more time on the erg so that they tugged at the finish like some present-day rowers.

For once, a crew who is not missing water and not going deep. Love it!

Great technique, but is the angle of the wrist of the outside arm at the end of the drive optimal?

Two points - disregard the body angle, look at the length of the oar handle's arc (not that much longer). Look at the boat behaviour - negatively impacted by the lay back with increased surface area as run is squashed out of the boat by the layback. Long layback also reduces the ability to rate higher correctly. Happy to give a full explanation if interested?

The art of coaching is to know when to stop pushing the athletes for cosmetic uniformity and when to focus on rhythm and uniformed power application only. There are many examples of very fast boats which did not look good and uniformed.

Body lean is to far back, not a good finish

Fast with room to improve.. great spot to be in

For all those wondering about the lack of uniformity in the bodies--it's the result of a different philosophy to coaching and rowing. Instead of worrying about looking the same to the coaches eye, or trying to replicate exactly the man in front, the athletes learn to understand for themselves the feel and sensations of what makes a boat go fast by spending time in pairs. Then they arrive independently at the result, but the difference is they don't waste time trying to be copycats. They learn how to use their bodies to efficiently lever the boat instead of dictating to the boat its speed. If you look at the bladework and rythm, the boat moves very well, and the puddles clear the stern. even the individual discrepancies of bladework can be assigned to position, bow moves quicker around the front end because that's what the bow needs and stroke seat lets it run out a bit more.

5 man is not together

Stroke is late 😂. (Bow 7 early) "Rows like my grandmother" as you like to say!

We fans really want a documentary that follows the team for a whole year. Please, please, please. Something similar to the sxulls rowing documentary. We love the whole team. Thank you Kris.

Very interesting !! Enjoyed speaking with you on the flight to Sarasota.

Fascinating. 2 seat and stroke seat rowing completely different lengths. When they were up at race pace the blade work was outstanding with lightning catches

5:18.68 BTW ... fantastic video, thanks so much. Presumably from 2017?

with respect to some of the comments if you're big guys in a big eight you're probably not too focused on perfect technique but rather getting the blade in and applying the power....it's not like they're out in singles...

Agree with the above comments, there’s a timing mismatch between stern 4 and bow 4 on strokeside

Yes, I agree with your comments. This lack of uniformed body work is a result of spending a lot of time on the pairs versus us who spend majority time in the big boats. The second reason is that some coaches pay more attention to the blade work, general rhythm and the speed of the boat than uniformity of the guys.

This is really interesting to see. I've only seen this crew at pace, and they look totally different on the paddle. Obviously they are one of the fastest crews of all time, but they look almost like a collegiate 2V or even 3V. 4 is opening his body super early, port side catch timing is all over the place, 5 is dropping his body into the catch and skying his blade a bit, and everyone is moving their hands out of bow differently haha. But once they get their blades in the water they seem to move the boat so well. Very interesting.

Interesting to see so many different styles all in 1 crew, yet they still managed to post the WBT. Thanks for sharing

They look really good just tell 2 seat to go slower from the finish

Haha huevaya