Valerie discovered in this drill that her break is in the lower back. This is where the power escapes for her.
This drill demonstrates something that was very effective in general with this camp. With the time we had, the coaches were able to focus on stepping us through each aspect of paddling from the basic building blocks - rather than just going straight to the stroke or worse yet paddling or racing. You'll see in these videos that we start without a paddle, just focusing on generating power to your arm from your feet through your core - initiated from the hips. Then we build up to using a paddle, and then we get in the boat.
The whole camp was structured like this - where we started with a full day just focusing on body position and then built upon that, step by step and piece by piece. Within each piece, everything was broken down into component chunks.
This worked incredibly well and really allowed us to focus on both the process AND the results.
I don't know if the DB track followed the same structure - but this was how the OC track worked and it was great. We went from body position through set up to catch through pull and recovery into turns and techniques and starts all the way to racing. Along the way we covered theory and technique along with practice. We covered training methods and race prep.
As you can probably tell... It was incredibly valuable to me. Anyone who has the chance in the future and who wants to become a better paddler should do this. If, on the other hand, you don't want to become a better paddler or think you can't possibly get better or want to show off how good you are... you might want to pass on what could be a painful experience.
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