THE SPORT OF ROWING FISA 1987 Video United States Camp Men’s Heavyweight Eight 1987 World Champion, Bagsværd Sø Stroke John Pescatore, 6’2” 188cm 185lb. 84kg 0°, +25° to -20°, 0-8, 0-10, 0-10 Classical Technique Schubschlag. less emphasis on legs. Late arm draw, strong surge to finish. boat away at the release. It was a much more distinct, dynamic stroke than the C- shaped body and smooth flow of the ‘84-‘86 eights that Kris coached.”5800 John Pescatore, stroke in 1987, remembers Kris best for the one-on-one coaching he got: “After practices in Tampa in 1991, Kris would send our pair back out, and he coached as my partner and I rowed, one at a time. We would go around and around in circles. “He wanted us to get connected and stay connected, accelerating all the way to the finish. It took tremendous concentration, but that’s how I learned to move boats. “When you do it right, the feeling is like magic. I remember the year my pair- partner, Peter Sharis, and I went to the ‘92 Olympics, we had a bunch of rows that were like that, a lot of practices where we just clicked! 5800 Burden, personal conversation, 2010 “I remember 1,000 meter pieces on Lake Carnegie when Bruce Konopka was supervising us, and he yelled out 3:04. “I yelled back, ‘No way! That’s impossible!’ and so we did a second one in 3:05.5.”5801 They ended up 6th in the final at Bañolas, only the fourth time since 1956 that an American coxless-pair had made the final. Pescatore’s technique in the stroke seat of the 1987 Eight, on this page, varied slightly from that of Teti in the bow. There was more balance between leg drive and back swing, a bit less hybrid-concurrency. The 1987 boat as a whole was characterized by tremendous acceleration and send on every stroke. This was especially notable in contrast to the German Democratic Republic, their main 5801 Pescatore, personal conversation, 2006 1612
