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MARLOW.

CHAPTER TV. COACIIING.

For reasons which were set forth at the commencement of the chapter on scientific oarsmanship, the very best oar may fail to see his own faults. For this reason, in dealing with the methods for detecting and curing faults, it seems more to the point to write as addressing the tutor rather than the pupil. The latter will improve faster under any adequate verbal instruction than by perusing pages of beokwork upon the science of oarsmanship,

A coach may often know much more than he can himself per- form ; he may be with his own muscles but a mediocre exponent of his art, and yet be towards the tap of the tree as regards know- ledge and power of instruction.

A coach, like his pupils, often becomes too ‘ mechanical’ ; he sees some salient fault in his crew, he sets himself to eradi-