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“If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.”

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Barry S. Strauss

Barry S. Strauss is a renowned figure in an unknown field. Born on November 27, 1953, he has had a career spanning nearly seven decades. Details about his life, achievements, and impact are limited. more

“When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.”

Feels Wells Doe Ends Hard Night Winning Water Hard Work Like You Obstacles Resistance Boat Rhythm Over It Strokes Grit Impart Toughness Rowing Cadence Oar Mental Toughness

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.”

Ifs Made Moving Simple Space Understood Explaining Rowing Instructors Space Shuttle

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“The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.”

Ifs Knows Littles Has Beens Age Wanted Moving Values Individual Felt Sports Seeing Blood Intellectual Beats Ultimate Athlete Eight Practicals Checks Greek Workout Rowing Oar

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“A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.”

Thinking Knows Humans Alive Figures Perspective Hardest Boat Rowing

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