Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... will raise the average he must stay where he is. Somebody must always be at the tail end of the average unless all are equal. It is in comparing a man's work for his weight with that of another that the greatest difficulty often arises. It must be borne in mind in choosing a crew that apart from sheer work, absence of faults must weigh to-some extent. It is no use for a man to work hard on his own hook if his faults hinder other men from doing their best. But this will be treated of more fully in analysis of faults and other remedies in a later chapter. CHAPTER VII. ANALYSIS OF FAULTS--FAULTY FINISH--WRONG GRASP-- OVERREACH--MEETING OAR--ROWING DEEP. When a crew has been picked and set into regular practice, the task of the crew will be, of course, to correct individual faults, and to inculcate uniformity. ' Though the latter is the most important element of eight or four-oared rowing by the time the race is due, so much so, that every-day experience exhibits weak but uniform crews defeating others physically and individually superior to them, but which have not acquired uniform time and swing, yet too often in early practice a coach allows his main energies to be expended too much in objurgations against bad time and swing. "Time" is called and admonished every half-minute to the exclusion of correction of the very faults of form which probably are at the root of the inequality of time. In the first row or two behind a strange stroke a man may be inaccurate in time without, perhaps, being radically wrong in form; but so soon as he has got used to the stroke he knows an absence of time must be ascribed to some other radical E fauit, and it would be much more to the point if the coach would devote his energies to tracing out and...
