Look at that lean back! She's practically horizontal. Sliding seat rowers hardly lean back at all, because all the available length of stroke is used on the slide. For developing the core muscles, fixed seat rowing is even better than sliding seat.
Malcolm Knight took the picture from the umpire's launch, and has posted lots more on his Facebook page. More on the Skiff Championships here.
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Thanks for that link - very interesting photos. I've never got that crossed hands thing you often comment on. I notice from those photos that there is a predominance of the left hand being over the right. Surely this means that the starboard oar blade is deeper than the port one? doesn't this tend to make you go round in circles?
In boats rigged for crossed handles, one gate is usually rigged slightly higher than the other so one hand can pass over the other. In Britain the starboard gate is conventionally rigged higher so a sculler can get in any boat and expect to row left hand over right, but somebody told me once that the Germans do it ithe opposite way round.
This is great stuff. When are these races?
I often tell people that properly done fixed-seat rowing is very good exercise and these photos help demonstrate that assertion!
The Skiff Champs are on the last weekend in August at Henley, I believe - see skiffing.org.uk.
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