It's official! I am addicted to crew. Am I good at it? Well... that's a different story. The last month and a half, me and several friends, took a rowing course on the Charles River. It was amazing!
For a long time I thought crew was so easy, but apparently I was wrong, so wrong. There is a reason why it qualifies as an Olympic sport. There are 8 people rowing on a boat and it has to be in perfect unison. Let me tell you, that is difficult in its own right. But, there is also a specific way you need to row, balance, move your ores through the water, etc. The first time we got on the boat, I honestly thought we were going to tip over! By the end, we had improved so much that we even had a race! My team won, mainly because we had the best cockswain (instructor) there is!
Look at me using technical jargon. Port, starboard, crab, whey-enough... impressed? :) Wondering what a crab is? It is when your ore gets sucked into the Charles and the boat is being propelled forward so fast by the other rowers that your ore becomes a speeding bullet, ready to knock you out of your seat before you can even really understand what is happening. Several crabs were caught over the course of 6 weeks, luckily none of them were bad enough to throw one of us into the Charles. In the middle of November, that would have been cold!
Our cockswain, Regan.
For a long time I thought crew was so easy, but apparently I was wrong, so wrong. There is a reason why it qualifies as an Olympic sport. There are 8 people rowing on a boat and it has to be in perfect unison. Let me tell you, that is difficult in its own right. But, there is also a specific way you need to row, balance, move your ores through the water, etc. The first time we got on the boat, I honestly thought we were going to tip over! By the end, we had improved so much that we even had a race! My team won, mainly because we had the best cockswain (instructor) there is!
Look at me using technical jargon. Port, starboard, crab, whey-enough... impressed? :) Wondering what a crab is? It is when your ore gets sucked into the Charles and the boat is being propelled forward so fast by the other rowers that your ore becomes a speeding bullet, ready to knock you out of your seat before you can even really understand what is happening. Several crabs were caught over the course of 6 weeks, luckily none of them were bad enough to throw one of us into the Charles. In the middle of November, that would have been cold!
Our cockswain, Regan.
I am at the head of the boat in the red sweater.
I am the 5th one back.
3 comments:
Wow!! I'm very impressed. People who row those boats always have the best thighs in the world!!
That is soooo cool!! Now I want to do that too!
Melody is sitting on my lap, and is insisting on typing something too, so here it is:
melody
That took her about 30 seconds to find all her letters. Sorry, that has nothing to do with your post. ;^)
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