Word: oar
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going deep: burying the oar too far. (This becomes obvious when the oar's handle disappears completely underwater...
release: when you "let go" of the water. The end of the drive; the point at which the oar is removed from the water. This action should ideally have no splash...
recovery: the final part of the stroke when the oar blade is moved above the water, back to the point where the next stroke begins again...
catch a crab: (King, Alaskan King, legs of) An oarsman catches a crab when his oar hits water on the recovery, knocking the handle back into his body. At times, the shock can be violent enough to throw an oarsman from the boat in which case he may get "sharked" (sharking is usually fatal to the race...
skying: dropping your hands at the catch so that the oar's blade lofts into the sky. Useful for killing low-flying seagulls...