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SmartOar Coaches' Tablet and Oars
Train Smart: know what's going on in the boat.
How hard is each rower pulling? How well are they pulling together?
Featured in Rowing News' article:
The Game-Changers, 11 Innovations that Changed our Sport Forever
The SmartOar real-time powercurve feedback system offers high schools, colleges, clubs, and individuals the same real-time feedback that top national teams use.
Our system is easy to use and totally non invasive in practices and races:
- Wireless, oar-to-oar, oar-to-coaches launch - nothing in the shell
- SmartOar is compatible with all brands of oars.
- Highly Accurate and Precise even with rigging changes
- Single button on the oars starts recording or transmitting data
- All oars offer both real-time display and self recording
- All systems are scalable: add sweep or sculling oars, indoor tanks,
and Coaches' Tablets - "Everything is compatible with everything"
These are curves saved as jpg's from the PC software. Users can print curves from self-recorded sessions or Tablet recorded session downloaded to a PC.
Users can also view and share entire data sessions using our Free Software.
Our instrumentation adds just 2 ounces (76 grams) near the pivot point of the oar - nothing in the shell:
In recent years, feedback loops have improved rowing around the world: video, speedometers, and ergometers help rowers and coaches make changes and see the result.
The hidden variable remains power application in the water. How effectively rowers pull, and pull together, can only be gauged indirectly from the coaching launch or by feel within the boat.
Current systems used by national teams around the world are prohibitevly expensive and unwieldy to the point of being barely usable in practice, let alone when it matters most in seatracing and racing.
SmartOar is an easy to use, reliable, and reasonably priced system that all rowers can use in everyday training and racing.
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