Thread: rowing exersize
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Old 02-12-2007, 11:17 AM   #26
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Re: rowing exersize

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Don Magee wrote:
15-20 minutes, man I don't think I'd be down for that. 5 minutes is enough, then lets start actually working for underhooks for another 5 minutes. It is an important skill, and very good to practice. But my classes are an hour and a half long. I wouldn't want to waste 20 minutes of my time doing an exercise I can do at home. I'd rather have my technique critiqued, or spar.
You know, sometimes I do 30 minutes just on step turns (tenkan). These exercises are so fundamental that I'll spend this time having students do step turns and then ciritiquing the step turns. Then we'll spend the rest of the class working on techniques where step turns are a fundamental part of them.

You can do the exercise at home, but are you doing it right? Is it helping you to build the foundations to do technique correctly? This, IMO, can be as important as working on technique directly.

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