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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]

I’ve never seen a HS rowing team seat races properly, and even at the collegiate and national team level seat races are influenced by the coaches’ whims and favoritism that conveniently never put everyone in the right combinations or have an unfavored person held back until the water is choppy or the wind picks up.

I can think of people on the U.S. team in recent cycles who were boated based on erg scores and perceived vibes on the water. And I can think of other b and c boats where all of the seat racing on the world couldn’t put together a fast boat because the coaches couldn’t translate fast erg scores at camps to a boat that worked well together.

So my vote is rowing=unfair sport pretending to be fair sport.[/quote]

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