The Boys In The Boat Rowing Featurette

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A group of collegiate athletes learn how to row for “The Boys In the Boat” movie directed by George Clooney in this featurette.

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00:00 The starting gun is up.

00:01 Oars to front stops.

00:03 Ready.

00:04 Row!

00:05 It was really important for us to get rowing right.

00:09 Just drop the blade in, Thomas.

00:10 OK, well done, lads.

00:11 Rowing is the ultimate team sport.

00:13 Everybody has to do exactly the same thing

00:16 at exactly the same time.

00:17 Row!

00:18 Row!

00:19 For the first six weeks, we were training.

00:21 Training started in a controlled environment in this tank

00:25 where everybody just figured out the rhythm.

00:27 And then that transitioned onto the river.

00:29 We get picked up at 6.30.

00:31 It was wake up, row, eat, sleep, repeat.

00:34 Wet and cold.

00:35 Best part of the day right here.

00:36 A massive amount of rowing on the River Thames.

00:39 And one.

00:40 It's also a lot of conditioning work in the gym.

00:44 It's like having eight people try

00:45 to learn how to drive at 100 miles an hour,

00:47 sharing one steering wheel.

00:49 So when George and I went to go skiing the first time,

00:52 they're rowing.

00:52 I mean, they were horrible.

00:54 It was just like paddles going everywhere.

00:55 Relax those shoulders.

00:57 About four weeks later, they were rowing as a team.

00:59 That's looking good, man.

01:01 We would train whenever we had days off throughout filming.

01:04 We push ourselves and push each other to go as fast as we can.

01:07 We shot an order.

01:09 So by the time we got to the race in Germany--

01:10 [shouting]

01:13 --our kids could stay in the game.

01:14 Give me 46!

01:15 Yesterday, we got to 46, which is the amount of strokes

01:18 per minute you have in the boat, which

01:20 is what the boys did in the Olympics to win the race.

01:23 I couldn't be prouder of all of us.

01:25 For all the people who didn't believe in you, as one,

01:30 as one.

01:31 [music playing]

01:34 (upbeat music)

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