The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 237
ra-tion will show the fallacy of such a statement, for the legs,thighs, and lumbar muscles, all have to take their share of thework, and are most essential to the proper performance of theoarsman, good thighs and knees being as requisite as shoulderschest, and arms. The power seems to be in the… … LIGHT RACING BOAT. utmost amount of speed from his egg-shell boat, if he waswithout straps. Some great authorities say that straps areobjectionable, as they cause the body to be doubled forwardon the oar; but this is more owing to the lightness of theboat than of the straps themselves. Coaching is…
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