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Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...
...Butt said that he just took a different educational tack, using physics to give the crew a better understanding of how an efficient stroke worked...
...This was a good approach for the group of people we had," Butt said. "It resulted in a better understanding of the stroke for the crew...
Working with videotapes of the races, Butt scrutinized every detail of his crew, from the bladework and body position of his rowers to facial expressions--and discovered a technical flaw: at the catch, the stern of the boat was sinking below the water...
...team worked hard to find this stroke," Butt said. Senior Sam Truslow said it took him half the year to perfect the stroke, and even then only after double practices four times per week through the spring and summer. But it was the eventual perfection of this stroke that would define the season...