Why higher stroke rates will be the standard in races 

Hi Aram, another cool analysis! You are completely right about "antique knowledge", oar lenghts and settings which don´t fit any more. I can tell from my personal experience as a 1xD masters athlete. I changed my sculls (old C2, 2,90m) to Braca skinny (2,83m) and changed span and inboard lever (88.5cm). This was according to Kleshnevs radical proposals for my height of 1,76 m. Stroke rate went up "automatically"...exhausting but satisfying! The short sculls, new setting, higher stroke rate (34-35 at 1k race) and yes - a little more intense training - brought me an improvement of roughly 20 sec from 2017s season to 2018...(pb 3:45 to 4:05 before)! So - keep it up "Mythbuster"!!!

The best channel for what is to come in rowing!!

Gerne mehr von diesen technischen Themen. Auch in Verbindung mit Anwendungen in der Praxis und verschiedenen Athleten. Mach weiter so 💪

A wonderful historical overview of oar design and common sense applied 'science'. Well done Aram for clearly setting out the consequences of these design changes. It seems there are still opportunities to improve the design of the oar and the best utilisation of modern materials. With good design and better understanding, rowing is becoming a sport for a wider range of athlete.

Would tall rowers also be able to take advantage of this as they would simply have to move their body even less to achieve a shorter stroke? (Because tall rowers have to relatively move their body's less to achieve the same stroke length). I am hoping this is true because I am 2m+ (6ft6'+) and my ego is of course the main source of power for my wattage.

That was a very interesting video, Aram, thanks for this, a lot of food for thought. We have different sets of oars at the club for different boats, and some of them are very old. We should keep in mind the differences in stiffness to adjust the lengths, rather than keeping them all at a standard length. Incidentally, what make are those wooden boats on the background, two of them look like very old Carl Douglases, but I'm not sure. Is this the Vienna club boathouse?

Can you analyse the M1X from Plodiv 2018

the Sinkovic brothers are 188 and 184.