111 Gründe, das Rudern zu lieben

Red is green and port is starboard! After reading this book, you won't confuse them anymore and will want to get on a boat right away! In sports, you can run, sprint, jump, hit balls or pucks with a racket, throw or kick sports equipment, and much more. But in only a few sports can you sit down! Rowing is one of them. However, to make it less comfortable, you sit with your back to the direction of travel. It’s somewhat peculiar, but rowing is one of the oldest forms of human transportation on water. And when a few ferrymen in England raced against each other for the first time in the late 18th century, the sport was born. Outsiders may still know the Germany Eight or the names of single scullers. But rowing is so much more. Arno Boes presents 111 good reasons to dedicate yourself to this sport.