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A novice move

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Barry approves this motor scrapbook

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This is hell... I mean an erg

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Yes that's a real word. Bisweptual means to be able to row on both sides, port and starboard. I am a port. But if you put me on starboard for a day I would struggle. And I'd probably struggle for a few days until I could get the hang of the other side. Sides in rowing do not correlate with handedness. There is some bilateral transfer I am sure but it does not feel like it much when you are doing it. I would say the transfer would fall under the cognitive theory in that you can draw on the mental processes of rowing on the other side to transfer to the new side. It must make it quicker to learn than as if you started the sport all over again. I also think that under the motor control explanation, the interhemispheric transfer of motor commands applies. When rowing, you "feather" the blade with your inside hand. When switching to the other side, the outside hand tends to try to do this as well which is what you don't want to happen. These two things show that there is bilateral transfer happening.

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When you first start rowing as a novice you need to focus a lot on what you are doing. Many beginners, myself included, look at their hands and their blade when they row. But as every experienced rower knows, you must look at the girl in front of you so as to best be able to follow. So as you progress from novice to veteran, your focus shifts from yourself and your oar to the person in front of you in order to follow.

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Our coaches regularly film our practices to send out to us to watch. We can see the way we row, an example of knowledge of performance. As a three year veteran in the sport, for the most part I know what to look for when watching film and can learn about the mistakes I am making. But we also take time to watch with the coaches. We saw in class that the best way to use video KP is with correcting cues, like when a coach points things out in the video for us to fix. This is very helpful to get better in our sport.

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The First 3 Days and 3 Stages of Learning

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The First 3 Days and 3 Stages of Learning

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I learned how to row at a summer camp at UW-Madison. I have played my fair share of sports but decided to venture into rowing at age 18. I went through a week long camp. We start learning on a big double boat that allows us to learn easily. This is where we go through the cognitive stage of learning. It is almost verbally walked through by the coaches and coxswains who are in the boat with us. The growth of skill is exponential at this point. By day three at camp, I was thrown in with the campers who had been rowing for at least a year. I went through the cognitive stage within this one week camp which I think is pretty incredible considering it's only a week. By the time I came to school here I was able to learn in the associative stage where growth was more gradual and I was able to detect my own errors. I can only hope to one day progress into the autonomous stage of learning in Fitts and Posner's model.

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The big benchmark to break in women's college rowing is a 2000 meter erg test under 7 minutes. After three years I have gotten my 2k down to a 7:06 time. Close but no cigar to the sub 7 goal. But some of my teammates have not only broken this threshold but have greatly surpassed it pulling times of 6:51 or 6:49. We have the same training regimen so it comes down to individual differences. They have certain abilities that allow them to go much faster on the erg. But that ability does not always translate onto the water. Being able to row in the boat is more of a skill, something that draws on the abilities of the person and can be modified with practice.

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Our team practices mental imagery a lot during practices and competitions. They often have us think back to a particularly amazing practice or race and imagine doing that during practice and how it feels. This follows the neuromuscular explanation where the idea is that the pathways are activated without actually moving the muscles and that this helps strengthen those paths. Or the day before a race we do "mental rowovers" which means that we think about what the high speed race would be like while doing a slower speed. These are particularly useful because you are doing the task and feeling like a race without actually making yourself too tired. This is an example of internal imagery. I know that imagining what it'll be like in the race I am prepared. This is more of the cognitive explanation, we learn strategies, think of consequences and the best way to attack a piece mentally.