Rowing and Sculling

Rowing as in the sport of crew, tends to be pretty expensive to be a part of. The positions made with the body and shear physical effort exerted requires immense amouts of training for the average person, so you need a qualified coach (which costs money). You also need a boat to row in... which are about as expensive as a car... a single rower's boat costs about $7,000 (and that's without anything fancy on it) and 8+ boats can cost $40,000. Then you have to pay for a place to put the boats (ie. a boat house because they will not fit in your garage), and insurance for the boat, in case you would crash.... Yes it is an expensive sport.

There are 2 parts to an oar holder. The first part is the rigger which is attached to the side of the shell. The second part is the oar lock which swivels with the stroke and keeps the oar in place. This is mounted on top of the rigger.

There are quite a few ways ....

one of them is to travel head first

you lie on your back and move your hands in a figure of 8 shape going towards your thighs and then back up to your hips.

some things

its a sweep oar

The most common race in single skulls as well as other classes is the type seen at the olympics, this is always a 2000m course.

Another common race is a Head, this is generally a much longer course (around 10 - 15 km is not unusual), and competitors are set off at intervals.

Sculling = One oar in each hand and a sliding seat. Usually 1,2, or 4 rowers written as 1x,2x,4x. Steering can be done by varying the amount of pull on each side. Sweep rowing = Two hands on one oar. Each rower takes one side (port/starboard) so there needs to be an even number of rowers. Sliding seat. 2,4, or 8 rowers. Often (and always with 8 rowers) has a coxswain to steer and coordinate. Rudders is used. Usually written as 2+,4+, 8+ (rowers w/coxswain) or 2-,4- (w/o coxswain)

alot of them acutally, the major ones being you back, arms, and thighs, biceps, triceps, wrist and grip, quadriceps and your ability to WIN
If used properly, rowing machines provide a full body workout! Muscles in the legs, arms, back and stomach are used. Quadriceps and lower back muscles are used heavily. Also, if using proper form, the rowing machine helps strengthen core muscles (abs and back).

For a an 8 boat you need 8 rowers + 1 coxswain. For a 4 boat you need 4 rowers and 1 coxswain. If you skull (use 2 oars instead of 1) then you can row a single, a two or a four. Those boats do not need a coxswain because the bow seat rower is in charge of stearing the boat.

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Depending on what are you doing on a rowing practice, but certanly A LOT!

Sculling boats with the same number of people are faster than Rowing (one oar) boats. However the fastest Olympic class boat is the coxed 8 (which is a rowing boat). This is because there is no 8 person sculling boat and the fastest sculling boat is the coxless quad.

You can purchase a home rowing exercise machine online from retailers such as Amazon. Once on the website, type "Rowing machine" into the search field at the top of the page and press enter to bring up the item.

Not sure about Olympics but at the high school level it ranges (for boys) from 5:00 minutes to 4:20, depending on the team, varsity boats generally go under 5 minutes thoughthese times are for my school so i other areas they maybe different. Hope this helps

1) Single Sculls - Beryl Mitchell

2) Double Sculls - Sally Bloofield, Nonie Ray

3) Coxless Pairs - Ruth Howe, Kate Painter

4) Coxed Fours - Katie Ball, Jean Genchi, Teresa Miller, Joanna Toch, Kathy Talbot

5) Coxed Eights - Belinda Holmes, Astrid Avling, Gill Hodges, Kate McNicol, Sue Bailey, Alexa Forbes, Kate Holroyd, Sarah Hunter-Jones, Ann Callaway

It depends on what you can afford, rowers tend to uses Empachers. (but they are really expensive)

Since conditions can be so variable in rowing there is not really a world record, but there are recognized worlds best times. Also, note that there are different records for each class of boats, but the overall fastest time for 2000m which is for the Heavyweight Mens 8+ is:

5:19.85 set by the USA in Athens at the 2004 Olympics

The name of the people actually rowing (in the sport, crew) are just called rowers. There is also a coxswain in a boat, that doesn't row but steers the boat and directs the rowers.

The members of a crew (rowing) team are called rowers. Individually each seat in the boat is given a number, counting from bow (front) to stern (rear) with the bow being one. Either "bow seat" or "one seat" will work for the bow rower, and similarly the sternmost rower is either "stroke seat" or 8 seat 4 seat or 2 seat (depending on the type of boat). The person steering the boat and giving commands (located in the stern of an 8 and either the bow or stern of a 4) is the coxswain or "cox".

A rower rowing with two oars oars (sculling) can be called a sculler, whereas a rower with only oen oar (sweeping) is just known as a rower.

Also, the sides of the boat are named, with the right side (facing forwards) being starboard and the left side being port. In Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, starboard is "bow side" and port is "stroke side", as this is how boats are typically (but not always) rigged.

For rowing you need excellent muscular strength in addition to great cardiovascular health. Rowing is both anaerobic and aerobic so when training for races, you must train as parts of your body. Looking at a diagram of the typical stroke, you can see rowing uses virtually every muscle in your body especially your legs and abs.

Most of the dictionaries refer to an oarsman (oarsmen) as a person who rows, especially as a member of a team. However, one dictionary did provide the terms oarsman, oarswoman.

If you are competing you wear something called a 'Zoot Suit'.

This looks like a one piece that females wear when swimming with bike shorts at the bottom, it is all one peice.

If you are training you can wear a zoot suit or tightish fitting clothing.

In 1928 the first Oxford- Cambridge race took place. 24 years later, the United States followed suit with the first Yale- Harvard face- off in 1952. these rivalries paved the way for rowing to be a part of the first a Olympics in 1896.