Hey Yak, just saw this, thanks for the great question.

Without seeing your stroke or how it's actually moving currently, I'd suggest focusing on balance. A talented coach I worked with shared with me an anecdote regarding Olympic Velodrome Cyclists and how much power they're losing because they're focused on their balance. It's similar on a boat or while lifting, if you're balanced you'll be able to produce more power.

The following drill might be a little tougher in a double but should be doable when performed slowly and with a wide berth. Rowing eXtremely lightly and slowly, go through the follow pattern: Take a stroke together, then have the lead rower (port/starboard depending on rigging) take a stroke with their oar in the air and rower on the other side take a stroke (again very lightly) with their oar properly submerged. Recover together as usual, then take the following stroke switched. After the following recovery, both rowers take an air stroke, which is then followed by a regular stroke together.

This is a great drill to do at the start of your row, helping to establish and guide your mental perception of what is off-balance in what direction, and what is on-balance.

Thanks Dreamboat. I'll make sure to pack some heat neXt time I come up that way!

The sauce is hella lit as well tbh.

I'm still slowly getting my act together. I have a limited selection right now and some cases ready for them, need to put those together and chat with people who already eXpressed interest.

I need to make more sauce is the simple answer.

Thought I'd share this here for discussion:

https://www.invenglobal.com/culture/articles/13590/extine-feeder-frenzy-cooking-interview

I only shouted out one TF2 player in particular, make sure to read and find out who. Hint: It's MASSIVE.

Definitely looking forward to cooking for a TF2 bootcamp eventually, and the return of events O_o

Also tryna focus more on Yyyao sauce stuff, good things otw fsho - https://twitter.com/YyyaaaooooSauce

Big ups again to Beater, as well as everyone who submits a clip and then leaves the file up on their dropboX for 6 months while we catch up on videos. <3

LETS GO BURNSIDERS!!!

S I G A B E A S T

Thanks Arcadia!

We'll see what happens with it... either way we're gonna keep grinding and getting our guys into more tournaments against better competition! NA DotA definitely has a lot of strong teams right now which is fun. We were proud of beating Arkosh and felt like we can beat Div2 DPC teams in bo3s, unfortunately couldn't get out of bo1s in the qualifiers due to some tough match ups.

good thing I'm eXperienced with admin disputes:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/kzcsvr/my_team_is_facing_unjust_ruling_in_aegis_league/?

Both teams we lost too ended up qualifying for the Closed Qualifiers. In Day 1, we had a 70 min game with 5 divine rapiers. Day 2 we eliminated Arkosh Gaming, but then lost to Electronic Boys.

Today's a new day though, fresh tournament and fresh shot at reaching the regional leagues. Come hang out: https://www.twitch.tv/eXtvesports

Gonna be live tonight at 9pm est with a bo3 match against Hellraisins to start off the RD2L Masters Playoffs. We ended the group stage as the 9th place seed, placing up against HR in the first round of this double elimination bracket. Lots of hype teams in the bracket... Hellraisins have been on the rise lately so we'll see how the Burnsiders fare in this re-match of the AD2L Upper Bracket Finals under the new patch.

https://www.twitch.tv/eXtvesports

Additionally, tomorrow we begin our DPC qualifying run. There will be one day tournaments tmrw and Wednesday to determine who gets into the Closed Qualifiers, which will run from the 7th-10th. If we don't access the Closed Qualifiers, there are two more tournaments on the 9th and 10th to potentially enter the 2nd Division of the regional leagues. I'll be streaming tomorrow's run but will mostly be unable to broadcast matches on the following days.

eXcellent

Yyyaaaooooo!!

I'm going to be casting the upcoming OGA DotA Pit EU/CIS tournament over on the Esports radio App Leagueday - http://leagueday.gg

The tournament games kick off at 7am Est / 13 CEST Tues-Thursday, and at Friday starts an hour later at 8 Est / 14 CEST. Matches will be possibly running till 5/6pm Est. Pretty hyped about the gig, it's a very stacked tournament: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Dota_Pit_League/Online/4/Europe_CIS

Burnsiders DotA squad has 2 RD2L matches this week, I'm hoping someone else will cover them but that means I don't. Tues 9pm Est vs "SeattleSupersonics" and Thurs 9pm Est vs Odd Otters. We have our AD2L Grand Finals coming up sometime, rest of the bracket has to be played out first though. Should be a new DotA patch soon, we were sorta hoping to get this wrapped up before then, but oh well thus is DotA.

If you missed it, our bo3 to start off the playoffs was hype AF:
https://youtu.be/VkuB4l9V0y4
https://youtu.be/tZo3WowssNs
https://youtu.be/Mv9XevG8Q9c

A diff dota person mentioned to me on air they'd be down to play some competitive newbie miXes. Would def be a really fun event, I imagine Slacks would be down if it can be timed up.

Slacks is a DotA god, maybe not the best caster, but an absolute legend for his personality, memes, and content. Arkosh is amazing stuff. Thanks for enjoying the casting, I'd love to get more work in the DotA scene.

Burnsiders KILLLLED it in that bo3. I'll have vods and should make a highlight reel soon. We playing again right now: https://www.twitch.tv/Rd2lmasters - bo2, round robin for a league, our first match tbh.