Shoulder Lift Week

🔥Eliminate Shoulder Lift in 5 Sessions - Quick Reference Guide🎓

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1. When to open your body after the catch

In this video, Ken and Jess demonstrate when you or your athletes should be opening up with the body after the catch.

2. How to stop shoulder lift at the catch?

In this video, Ken Davey demonstrates how you can teach yourself or your athletes to stop lifting with the shoulders too early after the catch.
This solution works equally well in the rowing boat as it does on the ergo.

3. How to maximise use of legs during the drive

It’s easy to feel connected to the water if you use small arm and shoulder muscles to grab at the catch. The problem with the arms grabbing is that the powerful leg muscles fight the weaker upper body.

The rower needs to connect with the legs at the catch instead of the upper body. In this video, Ken describes how he teaches athletes to push with the legs instead of grabbing with the arms and shoulders at the catch.

4. Exercise for fixing shoulder lift

In this video, Ken discusses the problem of lifting with the shoulders at the catch. Many coaches and athletes find it hard to fix this common problem.

Ken has developed a solution where precise use of another common problem, “shooting the slide”, is used to reduce or eliminate shoulder grab.

5. How to teach the correct sequence during the early drive

In this video, Ken discusses how the legs should move compared to the body during the drive phase. Athletes often struggle to “naturally” execute the correct sequence of movements during this part of the stroke.

Ken demonstrates the correct series of movements and gives his tips and exercises to help the rowers come to grips with this crucial aspect of the rowing technique.