Re: the constantly moving seat

"Nick Suess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> G'day Playmates
> 
> Some of my network of spies out there in the big grown up world have told me
> that the modern technique now being fostered by international coaches is
> that of "the constantly moving seat". Now I fully understand the debate we
> had recently about the seat moving constantly at the catch, meaning that
> there is a finite period of time around the catch during which the seat has
> constant acceleration towards the bow, so that its sternward velocity
> decreases and turn bowwards with only an infinitesimal moment in between
> during which that velocity attains zero.
> 
> But I'm being told this should happen at the finish as well. And that the
> extraction should happen seat prior to the infinitesimal instant of seat
> reversal, with the hands punched fast away past the knees before they begin
> to rise.
> 
> My simple question is, IS THIS BOLLOCKS?

I'd say Yes! Who comes up with this stuff!?!!?

It would be nice if all other competitors did it.  [;o)

"May all your competition have a continuously moving seat." - Would
make a good blessing for a crew.

It's obvious that the wheels will (adn should) stay stationary for
quite some time at the finish, but at the catch the time is so small
as to appear to be a quite instantaneous change of direction.  Like a
pendulum, we know it must stop and reverse, but the moment of
stillness is very short.

- Paul Smith