THE SPORT OF ROWING Kris Korzeniowski 1984 United States Camp Men’s Heavyweight Eight In practice, Hanover, New Hampshire Stroke Bruce Ibbetson 6’2” 188cm 183lb. 83kg, 7 Charles Clapp 6’5” 196cm 187lb. 85kg, 6 Fred Borchelt 6’5” 195cm 196lb. 89kg, 5 Tom Darling 6’4” 193cm 203lb. 92kg -5°, +40° to -15°, 0-7, 0-10, 0-10, Kernschlag Modern Orthodox hybrid-concurrent, early legs, strong back swing, late arm draw. Korzeniowski: “Good bladework without splashes, locking in, pushing boat, very relaxed. Motion is very good relation to the speed of the boat.” boathouse over the fireplace, I saw a picture of a boat from the ‘40s or whatever, and I thought, ‘Holy cow. That’s what we coach!’”5776 “Natural Power Style” In 1985, Cornell coach John Ferris filmed Kris giving a detailed description of his preferred approach as he rowed in the Cornell tanks, gesturing and demonstrating as he spoke. The following is an edited transcription: Korzeniowski: “Analyzing different people, different nations, different boats, 5776 Korzeniowski, personal conversation, 2006. See illustrations on previous page. you see a lot. Some boats have been very successful with very short strokes, some successful with long strokes. Some stop hands at finish. Some have very fast hands out. Somehow they are all successful, so each of these boats is doing something right. “If we really start to analyze all these boats, we find that probably sixty or seventy percent are rowing some kind of natural style where nothing is exaggerated [i.e., Schubschlag force application]. “When we start talking about technique, what different techniques different countries are rowing, we shouldn’t analyze movement of boat. We have to think in terms of movement of people in the boat and speed of that movement in relation to the boat. 1596
