For coxswains
Hands on the rudder, eyes on the course. The Apple Watch app gives you the crew's stroke rate with a tap, so you can call the change the moment the rate drifts instead of a minute later.
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Halfway through a piece the stroke turns and says the rate feels high. You think it is a touch over. The coach’s launch is two hundred metres back and the cox box shows speed, not rate. What the crew needs from you is a number, now, so you can bring it down together.
The Apple Watch app exists for this moment. Tap on a catch, count three strokes, tap again, and the rate is on your wrist. Your hands never leave the rudder and your eyes never leave the course for more than a glance.
The Watch app keeps to the essentials: a result, a tap target and a Reset button. Everything else, the spoken rating and the stroke count setting, lives on the iPhone and iPad app that installs alongside it.
Tap to start, count the strokes, tap to finish. The Watch shows strokes per minute in large type and nothing else to read.
A tap on the wrist is faster than reaching for a phone or a cox box screen, and the rudder never moves.
A white number on a black screen, sized for a glance. It reads the same at dawn and in full sun.
The Watch app installs with the iPhone app and shares your purchase. Use the phone on the erg or from the bank, the Watch in the boat.
Stroke rates and timing events stay on the device and are never sent to analytics.
Watches and phones should stay out of the boat during a regatta. On training days, it is the quickest honest number you can give a crew.
A rate check during a steady-state piece takes about ten seconds.
Tap the screen as the blades go in on a catch. Keep your other hand on the rudder.
Watch the stroke seat, not the Watch. The app is timing while you count.
The rate appears immediately. Tap Reset when you are ready for the next reading.
Two beats above the target? Say so, with the number, and check again in a minute.
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