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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rowing, your boat placement is generally based on your erg times.[/quote]

Which actually doesn’t translate to boat speed! I row a single now and easily beat men who can kill me on the erg, because in a boat power is meaningless unless applied correctly and in unison with your crew.

Seat racing can find that out - two boats race, pull together and two rowers swap, race again, swap again. You can do it in a way that the rowers are never sure who is being tested so they all pull as if it’s their own butt on the line each time. I don’t know that most high school crews take the time (and anguish) to do it, though.[/quote]

My high school's football team had something akin to that.  It was a skills-based tryout, so you would go one on one against a defender, whoever was better at going against the defender would get the spot.  Players that lost out had an opportunity to go one on one against the winner.  If they won head on, they would start both on defense and offense.  Other players could also go one on one.  Some were qualified starters for multiple positions, especially on the line.  My buddy was nose guard.  The McD's Owner Daddy Boy, big in the booster club, wanted to try out for half back.  He tried to stiff arm my buddy, who tackled him and broke his arm during the position-based tryouts.  They wanted to win also.[/quote]

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