Re: new sculler phenomenon
- From: carolinetu@xxxxxxx
- Date: 11 Jul 2006 02:15:51 -0700
Mike Sullivan wrote:
One of the things I find really fun about teaching
beginners is watching the learning process in a
variety of different people.
When I teach new scullers, mostly people who've
never rowed before, an interesting phenom occurs
and it's quite possible because the way I teach.
I'm pretty thorough about boat handling, and one
thing I teach them is when the boat is on the dock,
ship the outboard oar across the boat so the
handle rests on the dock.
Before they launch, they ship the oar out, grasp
both grips, foot center, inside hand on gunwhale,
other foot in, then seat gracefully into seat.
The very next thing I tell them as they've gotten
into seat is to always control oar handles. I tell
them not to pull them inboard when they are in
the boat.
After their rowing session, as soon as they pull
into the dock, a great many (if not a majority
seemingly) will ship their oar inboard, sometimes
both.
If they don't do it the first time, they will certainly
do it a subsequent time, the 2nd 3rd time out unless
I've explicitly told them.
I know there's a lot going on, particularly since I'm so
anal about proper boat handling, but this seems to be
such a universal behavior, and other boat handling
'inventions' are random and infrequent.
I try to only tell them things that are directly in front of
them and immediate on the first lessons, just too much
to remember, and patterning is done by doing far better
than by listening, so I don't tell them what to do when
docking until they come in.
Do you teachers see the same thing? Why do they
do that?
I think there's something going on in the brain, they
know that getting out of the boat is going to be a
possibly difficult task, there must be something they
must do to prepare, and the strongest thing they remember
about the boat being at the dock was that the oar
was shipped. I do take time to explain why the oar
is shipped, so as to prevent it floating away from them
and to help hold it on dock against a breeze.
I had a 76 year old lady up in Clear Lake come to learn
to row. what a stud.
Mike
Mike,
Yes, I see exactly the same thing. I tell people "getting out of the
boat is the same as getting in, but in reverse" but it doesn't sink in
until about the 4th or 5th lesson (and sometimes not even then). I
guess people's brains switch off once they are in the boat.
The other thing I've found with beginners is that it's best to keep the
sessions short, as their concentration wanes. However, we were all
enjoying ourselves so much yesterday evening that it was nearly dark by
the time we came in!
Caroline
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