Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2016 22:53:04 GMT 12
In principle, four-oared rowing does not differ from eight-oared rowing. It is in details only that the experienced oar will sense a slight, an almost indescribable difference. In taking the beginning, for example the water seems to have more meaning. The whole movement should be brisk and sharp as in an eight-oar, though it does not seem to require quite the same vicious attack. Some oarsmen described the perfect four-oar beginning as an instantaneous hooking-on to the water.
G.O. Nickals & Dr P.C. Mallam 1939