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Re: RandallFoil
Postby platypus » Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:59 am

I sighted the Randallfoil for the first time at our rowing club this morning. One of the guys at our club has been using them and swears by them. He attached them to his C2 sculling oars, which also have the vortex edge, himself by just gluing them on. He has also set the pitch to the recommended 3 degrees. He noticed an increase in boat speed from the very first stroke and from his own time trials is getting over 5% in faster times. Being a sceptic of his claims he has allowed me the use of his oars to judge them for myself. I'm going to give them a try next time I go for a scull in a few days time. I'll see how I go.

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Dutch Rowing Journal "ROEI !" Lead Article

Rowing Sports Medicine and Science Conference 2018 & FISA Coaches Conference…The presented studies and insights ranged from rowing in Germany to the blood vessels of the rower and provided plenty of inspiration. Innovations were also presented, one of them was striking because of the enthusiasm of the inventor, the Australian Ian Randall (45). His talk on Friday morning was titled 'A new oar with an attached hydrofoil limits diving and increasing boat speed', and that covered exactly the that. Randall presented himself as someone who had just come up with that idea during a sabbatical of his job as a fine arts teacher. … And then he came up with a piece of plastic about which he spoke now with fire and yet modestly. Columbus, that idea. Those few people with some knowledge of water to whom he presented his story did not even think it was a crazy idea. He claims that a blade with the extra strip gives it a speed advantage because such a blade has less contact with the water than a conventional blade. Randall's story can be seen at roeiblad.nl/nummer29. In the USA rowers have already scored pb's with this, he says. He himself rowed, as a veteran, five seconds per five hundred meters faster than without the strip. And for coastal rowing he sees great advantages from a safety point of view. How that strip looks exactly, and how it works can be read on his website. Rowing! will test his Randallfoil in 2019.
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Drikus Conradie, New Zealand

Drikus Conradie, Stroke of NZ IV 2016

Drikus Conradie is an international oarsman of the highest regard who has represented New Zealand at World Cups, World Championships and at Henley Royal Regatta.

The Rowing community looks to Drikus for inspiration and guidance as he understands the heights and personal costs of elite rowing. He tasted the personal effects of international politics when the world governing body allowed a banned Russian crew to compete, taking New Zealand's qualifying place at the Rio Olympics. Drikus was the Stoke of the New Zealand Men's IV at the time.

He is currently compiling his experiences and insights as a rower and the wisdom that has been given to him by others in a book, soon to be published.

The development of the Randall foil has much to owe Drikus as he was instrumental in the certification of the design by the Henley Stewards. This was a remarkable achievement as the primary goal of the Stewards is to safeguard the traditions of Henley and change is always seen as a threat to the establishment. So a young New Zealand team with a new Australian oar design could up-end the entire sport. Drikus assisted in the lobbying and persuasion of the Stewards to permit the design and in doing so opened the way for the world governing body FISA to follow suit. Now we all can benefit from the certification of this design.

We welcome Drikus as the distributor for the RANDALLfoil throughout New Zealand.

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If you'd like to get in contact with Drikus, feel free to send him an email:

dhreex@gmail.com