Men's Eight Rowing Heats Highlights - London 2012 Olympics 

hehe so reletable

LOL

As a fellow rower this is true but my coach is actually nice

QUICK ON THE DOCK

The first half is relatable cause nationals ended yesterday

right? jeez

they look like they are at a 1:30 split

At the start very painful but around the middle is what I row at

It's more painful at the end of the race. You have to pace your energy so you maximize your output consistency through the race. If you don't, you'll tire out to soon and not wine. It's just like running.

@@ItsVorty it said around 1:18 split

Yess jajaja

Those are most likely the team coaches. Most coaches will ride their bikes along the course to give feedback after the race and to see if their rowers are following the race plan. Some of them even video on their phones while biking!

@@billyw.2222 Lol the many dozens of people on their bikes are the team's coaches. Yeah no rofl.

@@codyheiner3636 In my experience as a rower, I believe they're mostly if not all coaches. Especially considering this is the Olympics, they probably have more coaches than races I've participated in.

All it takes in one coach to stumble on his bike and the whole stack of bicycles comes crashing down

nerd

@@evan2758 no need to say that he's just explaining that the crew is rowing well

@@evan2758 loser

@@evan2758 Just because you aren't intelligent doesn't mean you should attempt to project your insecurities onto someone else. Douche.

​@@evan2758 nah bru just speaking facts

Well technically they are sliding haha

i rowed. i only know one tougher sport, which is squash. and i know many sports. only after squash session i was more exhausted then after a rowing race.

Couple years ago I was facilitating some canoeing on Watts Bar Lake in Tennessee. We went out towards the open area. But eventually started to head back to Shore but it was windy and it made the water rough and it was extremely difficult to make progress. So I can kind of understand what you're saying.

Pintkonan hmm ive never played squash but rowing is a great sport if theres people you like on the team and the coach is good. Hard tho.

@@sterlingsilver5937 your kidding right?

@@jamespostle6894 I'm 100% serious. If you look up Watts Bar Lake and see if you can find photos of Bird Island you can see the general area where we were on the lake. When you're dealing with Rough Waters and you're going against the wind without a motor it can make it nearly impossible to make progress.

That's exactly what I did, and this is the first video I came to while reading the book Boys in the Boat!

A movie of that book comes out in December!

The movies out

​@@Jr-_ Well, while The Boys in the Boat had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 11, 2023, it is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 25, 2023

@@nealmcb I just watched it in a theater yesterday

Go watch Fautasi race practice… you’ll see how fast they are

That's an interesting thought! Law of averages.

That's what coxwin in the back is for. The coxwin tells the rowers to do power strokes like during the last few meters or when you're neck to neck with another boat.

It may seem unlikely but the amount the guys on this level work together their minds are pretty much in sync so they will go apeshit as a team.

Lol "beastmode"

I’m not olympics no way, but you have a cox who is yelling down the mic and because especially at Olympic level you’re all not thinking very hard, it’s easier than you might expect for your cox to influence how the team works.

couldn't* listen carefully

@@Sascha053 it sounds like that but that makes no sense, because he talks about the germans in contrast to the canadians who he says look absolutely spent. He even says 'the Germans on the other hand'

😂

@@resathe6760 yeah he's talking about the Germans and he says they could run another couple of miles.

The slides maximize the stroke range.

That's what brought me here too, haha

Exactly the same!

lol same

Lol

That's why I'm here, too! Gosh!

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It took me back to my highschool days when I used to row in regattas. The start of the race was definitely an adrenalin boost.

What happens if you crab in the olympics? Since its such a big event, would they restart??

Watch the Men's Quad from 2011 world championships. It's on the worldrowing video archive. Same with Women's 8+, 2003.

@@pablomercado8022 its not a real crab. Its when you feather before getting your oar out of the water

@@Charlie-yq8hu I think he knows lmao

@@victorstiles8946 i assumed he didnt cause he thought you might have to restart, so i though he may not have realised its a technique error not a physical error out of the rowers control

That song portrays the wrong people image of rowing

Eric Cheng I can respect humor but this is anything but gentle.

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MANTAP

... merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

There is so much effort put into rowing that you don't understand lmao.

Plus, in the boat, it's very fast-feeling.

The way I justify it to myself is that a bicyclist needs a paved road, a rowing shell just needs some water

I went rowing with my dad once and I was dead-tired after just a couple of minutes. Very demanding!

How...

HAHA

CT

It's a machine not a human carrying the camera

it’s so fun but painful

I enjoyed being in crew but it was hard the same time.

GB

@@kilianp.5692 GB for me too

@@kilianp.5692 I don't support GB because they are greedy for medals and not sportsmen. When it comes to competing in the FIFA worldcup they compete as England, wales, Scotland etc so as to have many teams inside so as to increase their chances of winning. But in the Olympics the compete as Great Britain , and the medals from wales , England etc get counted as one country! Just because they want to be in the top of the medals ranking. They should be consistent in all competitions, and not to seek unfair advantages!!

@@fadhilalbakry well that is not how it actually works, they compete in the world cup as four separate nations because each individual country have a football association and a separate league, and the FIFA recognition is based on that. While the Olympics is governed by the IOC and they recognize you as a whole because all of the mentioned countries fall under the name The United Kingdom and the North Ireland, so team GB "great Britain" is recognized as once, also they don't have a football team to play in the Olympics because they haven't agreed on how would they figure it out, there was only one exception when they hosted the Olympics in 2012 in London but the team later on was discontinued.

@@fadhilalbakry not about being greedy lol, it's about where the association is based and whether the olympics/FIFA recognises their existence. Kind of a weird reason to not support a team

Rowing is all about synchronization. I love watching the pros, they are so in synch with eachother it's like art

Same here

@@ryanwijaya2704 orang Indo boss?? wkwk

no

Yes you are right

I think he is the one who is commentating in football

No need to be. We all feel the same. :(

Are you from Canada 😃

Me, trying to get better at rowing still have alot of weight to lose to look like these guys....

2021. Missing the olympics real bad right now

@@emilyhamilton6226 i ll cry coz really miss it corona really soo bad

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good spats

Nope, Boston Bruins commentator much worse hahaha

As Fernando Alonso would say, "He's a Yoke." F1 Fans would get it.

SAME

That’s a good one 😂

Top

What's top?

No clue what they mean by 'top?' Perhaps they mean cox. That person is the coxswain (cox for short), and they steer the boat + give commands.

It's the coxswain. Basically they yell at the rowers the whole race, give them motivation and instructions, and they also have a mechanism that they can control the rudder and steer the boat. It's actually a really important position of the boat, especially an 8 man boat

Each rower probably putting out ~400 watts (conservative). One horsepower ~700 watts, so each boat closer to 5 horsepower?

@@cwilcock7008 more like 550 Watts each rower

That's the coxwain responsible for steering and coordinating the rowers.

@JUSTUS ROTICH thanks I was thinking it was got to do with steering but wasn’t sure thanks for clearing it up

thats why there is a coxswain to yell at u.