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Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing

Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing

By Marlene Royle

Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing is a collection of over 100 articles by sculling coach and Rowing News columnist, Marlene Royle. Each piece offers a hands-on, practical approach toward improving your understanding of the sport of rowing. Ranging from your first outing in a shell to steering a perfect race, the topics covered in nine chapters include: flexibility, breathing, posture, core strengthening, coordination, skill development, aerobic conditioning, recovery, oarsmanship, sweep and sculling technique, rhythm, boat stability, bladework, performance drills, self-coaching, mental training, event planning, starts, sprinting, head-style events, marathoning, rigging, erging, and coaching. Whether you are a trainer planning the fall season for your novice squad, a competitive sculler who needs to improve stroke length, or a recreational rower looking to gain more fluidity, this anthology has valuable information to help you develop your technique, methods, and results. ISBN: 978-1-4196-9386-1

Additional vendors that carry Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing include:

Craftsbury Sculling Center's Store (on site)

Skillful Rowing

Ed McNeely and Marlene Royle

Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd., 2002, ISBN 1-84126-084-3. Pages 182. Paperback.

"Congratulations on Skillful Rowing! I particularly like the breadth of coverage and the fact that your audience was focused on the rower rather than the coach-and that rower was a masters rower. Don't know of another book like it."

Jane Morse, Community Rowing, Boston

"It's the most useful book to come along in rowing that I've seen."

Ed Winchester, Rowing News Magazine

Available through Amazon Books, www.amazon.com

Rowing News Magazine: Upstream

Originally, Tip of the Blade, Marlene's column Upstream is in RN's Get Better section and is a regular department in the leading international rowing magazine, Rowing News. The column covers technical drills and exercises for improving sculling and sweep rowing, as well as, training related issues.

"Tech Tips"

Sculling technical tips are featured bi-monthly on the Craftsbury Sculling Center website. Marlene's articles are substantial and devoted to topics such as rigging, training paces, drills and more.

Past articles are conveniently archived on the site.

Technical Drills for Sculling Performance

This classic manual of drills offers specific exercises to be performed in the boat to improve balance, blade work, speed, power, and stroke transitions.

Complete text is included in Tip of the Blade: Notes on Rowing