THE LESSONS OF 200 YEARS FISA 2008 DVD Olaf Tufte, Norway Six frames shot at 24 frames per second. The moment of entry is Frame 2. Using arbitrary measurement points: Shin angle: -7°, -4°, -8°, -16°, -19°, -25° heading to -68° at release Back angle: +33°, +31°, +27°, +24°, +22°, +18° heading to -18° at release Conclusion: consistent concurrent use of legs and back. Note the arms are also straining from entry in Frame 2. moved, the percentage of the rest of the world rowing some version of Classical Technique went up to 90%. Among World Medalists it was an astonishing 97%!8779 How Can This Be? How does one reconcile this enormous discrepancy? Could it be his methodology . . . or mine? After all, I have made only a visual survey, susceptible to bias. It is hu- man nature to see what you expect or want to see, and though I have made every effort to be objective and submitted this text to the scrutiny of nearly 100 rowers and coaches, I am as human as any of us. 8779 For an analysis of 2005, see Chapter 154. Kleshnev: “The video can be deceiving. Let’s take a good example, Olaf Tufte, two times Olympic Champion. From the first glance when you just watch the video, it looks like he uses the body straight away, but then play frame by frame, and you will see that the first one, two, three frames he moves legs only, and he start using the back not from the catch but about two, three frames later.”8780 However, careful frame-by-frame analy- sis the video from Schinias in 2008, as seen on this page, clearly shows completely con- current leg and back motion from the first moment of entry. Perhaps the lesson here is that anyone’s presumptions can turn out to be erroneous. 8780 Kleshnev, personal conversation, 2011 2469
