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The Rowperfect Interface – Real Communication
Sick of ergo scores vastly biased to bigger people? Fixed head ergos by their very design are
biased against smaller athletes – the Rowperfect takes the “level playing field” to new limits. With the Mark IV LCD interface, and on both the DOS and Windows versions of the Rowperfect software, ACCURATE OBJECTIVE WEIGHT
ADJUSTMENT is a unique feature. Scores are calculated before display to give the most accurate measure of boat-moving ability ever available.
Lightweight rowers are usually penalised by traditional ergometers.
Rowperfect adjusts actual time on-water for:
- Body weight
- Class of boat
This assists crew selection, race planning and optimising the stroke rate to achieve certain boat speed over the length of the race.
Using the Rowperfect interface, in addition to the standard
information, such as time, stroke rate, power and energy dissipated, Rowperfect shows the estimated 500-metre time, corrected for body weight and class of boat. Therefore in comparing results, it does not
automatically favour the slow heavyweight at the expense of the more agile lightweight, and thus is a better tool to select the real boat movers. Tests for the single scull mode with top class female and male rowers, ranging in
weight from 59 to 95 kgs, have shown that the times calculated by Rowperfect over a 2000 metre course are generally within a margin of a couple of seconds of the actual times rowed in the boat under ideal conditions with near
to perfect technique.
For rowers whose blade technique is less than optimal, the time is an excellent goal—it represents what they are capable of doing if their bladework was perfect. This provides extra motivation to
get in the boat and do it better!
Rowperfect presents the fairest comparison of performances of oarsmen of different weight. A world first!
For more on weight correction, click here.
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