If you want to more competitive, ask yourself these questions:
* Do you want your off-water training to improve, not worsen, your technique?

* Would you like to eliminate the bad habits that are preventing you from being the best rower you can?

* Would you like to learn your optimum stroke and how to produce it every time?

* Do you want access to technology previously only available to a few international teams?

* Would 5% extra speed change the results of your crew?

* Has your training been affected by injury (especially back or knee injury)?

* Would you like to know where your optimum level is between overtraining and undertraining?

* Is your lack of body weight being penalised by testing which is biased toward heavier rowers?

* Would you like more time to do on-water training?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, you should test a Rowperfect now.

Do you want your off-water training to improve, or to worsen, your technique?

Rowing is the quest for the optimum combination of force, endurance and perfect co-ordination (with co-ordination being the most difficult to train). So, why do so many rowers spend much of their time improving their strength and endurance using equipment which induces a co-ordination pattern that is absolutely detrimental to good rowing?

Similar to a racing shell, Rowperfect is very sensitive to proper co-ordination of movements. Good technique is rewarded, bad technique is apparent— it can be felt and therefore corrected in an early stage.

By training off-water in the most realistic environment possible, Rowperfect allows a more rapid acquisition or honing of co-ordination, which means progress in the boat sessions is quicker.

Our own experience has been that highly motivated athletes improve at astounding rates. As a coach, watching rowers on the Rowperfect can give excellent feedback on the rower's mental aptitude for the sport, as well as the more obvious measurement of physical aptitude.

The process of learning to row has four stages:

• Firstly learning the concept of balance—centring the body mass
• Then the co-ordination of legs/body/arms for drive and recovery
• Learning to do this in time with another rower or rowers.
• Lastly, acquiring the skill involved in handling the oar or sculls—a relatively easy skill, but extremely difficult if the first three are not already mastered.

The main problem with training in the boat is that all of the problems occur at the same time and you have to divide your time between co-ordination, timing, balancing and handling the oar.

The Rowperfect can deliver the first three stages, balance, co-ordination and timing, and they can be handled as separate entities with genuine sport-specificity AND biofeedback. This enables you to concentrate on one issue at a time, making the learning process more efficient. No other off-water system has ever delivered these skills.

By perfecting co-ordination, balance and timing off-water on Rowperfect, precious time in the boat is more productively spent:

• practising the oar or scull skills
• preparing for racing
• learning to deal with weather conditions i.e. maintaining co-ordination despite wind, waves and other distractions.

How accurate is Rowperfect when compared with actual performance in the boat?

Experiments with the Dutch Eight have shown that the stroke profiles on Rowperfect and in the boat are highly identical. The diagram shows the stroke profiles of the no. 5 of that Eight on the water and on the Rowperfect. This accuracy in mechanics makes it possible to improve rowing technique on land.

At last you can learn good technique off-water

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