An oarsman in his youth, he was a member of the 1968 cadet eight who travelled the country competing. |
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Mark watched the other ship draw closer, sensing the increase in their own speed as the sails filled again and the oarsman got their rhythm. |
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Those events are split eight and six in terms of both men and women and scull, where two oars are used, and sweep, where the oarsman uses only one. |
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The oarsman should use his inside arm to square his blade as it comes over the toes and should let his hands rise gently into the catch. |
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The oarsman should then initiate the first part of the upper body effort by pushing his shoulders back. |
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The last anyone heard of him he was an oarsman on an officer's barge. |
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The last of these spoons was awarded in 1909 to Cuthbert Lempriere Holthouse, an oarsman of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of St John's College. |
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The original company reflected the sphere of interest of the formal national team oarsman, Graham Wilkins, who worked to create a larger interest in recreational rowing in Canada. |
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The best known of Italian boats is the gondola of Venice, a double-ended craft, with ornamental posts at bow and stern, propelled by an oarsman using a single oar or sweep. |
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It's amazing just how much a number like this has in common with the enticing come-ons of Rossini's song triptych La regatta veneziana where the sultry Anzoleta offers her own very particular incentives to her dreamy oarsman. |
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Sbihi is not your archetypal rower, that stereotype of a white, middle-class, privately educated oarsman, a standpoint that is changing within British Rowing thanks in part to various talent ID schemes. |
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The key to achieving the 'push' off the catch is to have the weight on the toes as early as possible and then to build that pressure as the oarsman comes forward on the slide. |
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As the boat moves beneath the oarsman and the seat moves towards the frontstops, there will be a gradual transfer of the weight of the oarsman from the seat to the footplate, building the pressure on the toes. |
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Trireme oarsmen used leather cushions to slide over the seats, which allowed them to use their leg strength as a modern oarsman does with a sliding seat. |
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The Voga alla Veneta technique of rowing is considerably different from the style used in international sport rowing, due to the oarsman facing forward in a standing position. |
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