Directional Terms
The name for the front of a rowing shell
What is the Bow
The call to the rowers telling them to give 10 good, hard strokes
What is a power ten
What is the piece of equipment that a rower uses to row the boat
What is an oar
the term used when a rower is halfway up the slide
What is Half Slide?
True or False: Rowing is not an original Olympic Sport
False, Rowing is one of the Olympic's original sports.
Name for the rear of a rowing shell
What is the Stern
What is it called when a rower's oar gets stuck in the water and is not pulled out of the water at the end of the stroke (oar stuck and in water and becomes parallel to the boat)
What is a Crab
What is the piece of equipment used by rowers, that is used to train
What is an Ergometer (Erg)
the part of the body do you mainly use to row with (what part of the body gives the power in the stroke?)
What are the Legs?
In order to set the boat and prevent the boat from flipping, this is what rowers should always do.
What is hold the oar with two hands?
Name for the left side of the boat (from Rowers POV)
What is the Starboard
What is it called when a rower's oars are flat, parallel to the water
What is the Feather (Feathering of the Blade)
The metal bars/wings that come out of the boat
What are riggers
the MAIN difference between sculling and sweeping
What is Sculling uses two oars, while Sweeping uses one oar?
This rubber object goes at the front-end of a boat to prevent both personal injury and shell damage in the event of a collision
What is a bow ball?
Name for the right side of the boat (from Rowers POV)
What is the Port
What is it called when the blades are turned perpendicular to the water and the blades are dropped in
What is the Square (Squaring of the Blade)
What are the things that hold the oar in a place called?
What are oar locks
the part of the stroke when the rower is at the rearmost part of the slide (rower's perspective) and the BLADES ARE put back into the FEATHER position
What is The Finish?
The part of the stroke where you move from the catch to the finish, pushing the legs down, swinging the back open, and then pulling with the arms
What is the drive?
The "head" or "boss" of a multi-person boat
What is a Coxwain
The order telling a rower to stop
What is Wain off, Way enough, Way Nuff,
A boat with the Coxwain sitting in the Bow of the boat
What is a Bow Coxed Boat
the part of the stroke when the rower is at the front most part of the slide (rower's perspective) and the BLADES ARE DROPPED INTO THE WATER
What is the Catch?
the colors associated with port and starboard
What is red for port and green for starboard?