Author: Walter Bradford Woodgate
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780332817514
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Excerpt from Rowing and Sculling While it is intended here to discuss the whole art and its concomitants from first principles upwards, it must not be supposed that these chapters are capable of, or aspire to, teaching rowing from first principles to a tyro who has never handled an oar. Some writers on the subject have attempted such a style of education, commencing even with an abstract definition of what rowing or sculling, as the case may be, consists of. To economise time and Space, we may as well premise that we do not here write to those who have never handled an oar. That would be as hyperbolical as to teach swim ming by book work, or by observation on dry land of the action of a frog in the water. One lesson of a practical order from a most mediocre oarsman would be worth all the book work of every oarsman who had ever won a blue ribbon at Putney or gold medal at Henley. We therefore premise that we write as More; 34.8c that those who read these pages, and seek to make any trial of the experiences that, with all due deference, are herein Offered, have already had an oar in their hands, and have to some extent mastered the rudiments of the art. But though we do not write to the utter tyro, we none the less write for him, 11a, to the coach who is to instruct him. This especially must be borne in mind in reading the pages which relate to the first principles. They are written, not to teach the tyro himself, but to suggest to his tutor the simplest plan of teaching him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
