This "Boys In The Boat" scene describes the meaning of rowing and what makes it a special sport. Check it out.
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00:00 Technique is more important than power. You have to be able to pull a perfect door stroke after stroke.
00:08 It's called swing. When all eight are rowing in such perfect unison that no single action is out of sync with the rest of the boat,
00:18 then you aren't fighting each other. You're moving with less effort.
00:22 Each one of your strokes is worth one and a half of the other boat's.
00:27 Most crews never find it, but when they do, rowing is more poetry than sport.
00:34 [music]