+staslig means that before he initiates the stroke with his legs fully, he is using his back before his knees are fully locked. You could damage your back doing this. Nate Goodman is a beast though. rowed for one of our rival schools, Montclair
Derby Day? Harvard is still the smoothest, but not the fastest and they don't give prizes for smooth. There were only two Americans in the Yale boat and one of them was the cox. Yale overstroked and out-powered the crimson eight.