Did you know that: Only 80% of the drive length is utilized to produce the blade's propulsive force, with more than half of it being buried in the water. Peak force is achieved through an equal effort of the legs and upper body. The peak handle velocity is reached when the oar angle is near perpendicular to the boat. These and other findings were revealed with further analysis of the averaged biomechanical curves obtained using the previously presented method, on over 50,000 data samples (RBN 2023/11). The seat velocity was expressed as a percentage calculated from the peak handle velocity during the corresponding phase, not from its own peak. This approach allows for the comparison of handle and seat velocities and also facilitates the derivation of the rower`s upper body velocity (trunk+arms) as the difference between them.
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