Boat Moving — Balance the Boat
Preparing the boat…
Find the feel.
Correct the handle height as the stroke moves beneath your hands.
Drag, or use ↑ ↓
Resets after catch and feathering.
Two warm-up strokes. Then ten to find your flow.
Drive — · Recovery —How to find your rhythm
Drive: keep the squared blade covered without burying it too deeply. A deep draw lifts your oar side and progressively buries more shaft. Lower the handle to correct it. A high blade misses the water at the catch and drops your side; raise the handle to place it in the water. The submerged blade and shaft are blue; the white line marks the water surface.
Recovery: the blade is feathered in the air. Use the boat and balance indicator to bring the boat level, keeping the blade clear of the water. Practice modes let the other phase run automatically. Continuous rowing asks you to control both.
Each run keeps one oar side, chosen at random. The easy rhythm is 8 strokes/minute; hard is 12. Your slider resets to centre after the catch and after feathering, so make a fresh correction for each drive and recovery. The physical handle moves smoothly through the reset. The normal stroke path, seat travel, feathering and blade placement are automatic.
Two warm-up strokes are unscored. Each of the next ten drives and recoveries counts as one direction choice. You get credit for choosing the correct direction, even if the boat takes time to settle or you move too far. If you use both directions, the one you actively use for longer wins: held-arrow time, drag movement time, or button taps. Ties and phases with no input count as uncorrected. Catch/release input, automatic slider resets, pauses and the automatic phase in a practice exercise do not earn votes.
This is a teaching model of one station in a crew shell. Loaded drive and unloaded recovery use an effective crew-load response, with water support only where the blade is actually in contact. Real crew balance also depends on body movement, timing, rigging and conditions.
Pause freezes the stroke and scoring. Leaving the page or switching tabs pauses the run; press Resume when you return. Changing exercise or rhythm prepares a new run.