Rowing - 1X World Championships 1982 - Sliding riggers
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@ALLDALI I have Uwe Mund's single in which he won the silver in 1983. A very fast VEB-boat and still in mint condition.
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Sliding riggers and wooden macon oars. One is banned and the other obsolete, how times change.
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Does someone know where to see those empacher boats with sliding rigger?
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min pappa!
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Compare a pair of legs and a rigger (30kg)to your entire weight(90kg)
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u still get the weight momentum of the rigger legs and bending forward.
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seems kind of odd considering even poor nations could spare the small cost of changing the boat to sliding riggers. dont the sponsors pay for this stuff anyway? good advertising for them.
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I have tried an Empacher with sliding riggers in 1985 - but it was as strange feeling then...
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no seat stay still and rigger (connected to footplate) moves towards and away fro you. It pitched the boat a lot less
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The idea sure was great, but IMHO it also took much of the beauty from rowing. The real point in good technique (and we know how difficult it is!) is in having a smooth recover and quick catch, gently "riding" the boat and controlling the negative forces that make the stern pitch. Ironically Kolbe, who popularized sliding riggers through his 1981 victory, was an absolute master in this respect, so (again, IMHO) he was the one who needed sliding riggers less.
My friend is collecting great skiffs - and he is now buying the skiff of Rudiger Reiche used the year before !
ALLDALI 3 years ago
A skiff with sliding riggers ?
rowermc 3 years ago