INTERNATIONAL ROWING TURNS PROFESSIONAL British Pathé Newsreel 1672.19 1960 Oxford University Blue Boat 1960 Boat Race Winner, did not advance at 1960 Olympics Coxswain Peter Reynolds 5’8” 173cm 116lb. 53kg, Stroke Michael Davis 6’0” 184cm 174lb. 79kg, 7 John Chester 6’2” 188cm 173lb.78kg, 6 D.C. Rutherford 180lb. 84kg, 5 Ian Elliott 6’6” 199cm 190lb. 86kg, 4 Alexander Lindsay 6’2” 188cm 178lb. 81kg, 3 Townsend Swayze 184lb. 83kg, 2 Richard Fishlock 6’2” 188cm 168lb. 76kg, Bow Richard Bate 6’0” 183cm 173lb. 78kg (American Swayze was replaced at Olympics by Donald Shaw 6’2” 188cm 181lb. 82kg. and Rutherford by Graham Cooper 6’1” 185cm 181lb. 82kg. Reynolds coxed both the Molesey Olympic Coxed-Four and the Oxford Eight.) -5°, +25° to -20°, 0-9, 0-9, 4-10 Classical Technique Concurrent Schubschlag, bell-note entry, ferryman’s finish. Amalgamation of English Orthodox and Fairbairn Techniques. flatly rejected, or at least ignored, by Macdonald.”3014 Technique Like Richard Burnell,3015 Jumbo took a scientific approach to technique, charting hull speed from Greek triremes to the eights in the 1960 Olympics. He fit an acceler- ometer, strain gauges and a recorder to his shells and recorded force curves sixty years after his mentor, Beja Bourne,3016 and ten years before GDR3017 would do the same. He employed automated stroke meters a 3014 Dodd, personal correspondence, 2011 3015 See Chapter 77. 3016 See Chapter 38. 3017 See Chapter 119. decade and more before they became commercially available. Dodd: “He once experimented with wiring the seats together, a better theory than practice.”3018 Edwards embraced land training, including a precursor of circuit training, and gym workouts with a medicine ball which had been pioneered by the revolutionary Karl Adam of Ratzeburger Ruderclub, who will be discussed in depth in Chapter 92. Also under the influence of Dr. Adam, Edwards embraced periodization of training schedules and interval training. He analyzed the dietary needs of rowers. He pondered the emotional needs of 3018 Dodd, op. cit., p. 127 841
