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shell, which is wider than the
racing shell. He recommends
attending the Cobo Hall boat
show in February as a good
way to find a boat and so-
meone who gives lessons.
As a beginning rower, Jacob
had some problems. "When I
first started, all I could think
about was rowing and trying
to keep from tipping over. I
would hold the oars very, very
tight. Now it's much easier,
much like swimming. When
you start out swimming
you're just trying to get from
one side to another. And after
you develop a technique (and)
you become more efficient,
you can think about other
things."
The thinking time rowing
provides him is another
benefit."' come up with a lot
of good business ideas. I come
up with a lot of ideas for the
community. The business.
Personal. Anything. Ideas
float in and out."
Jacob's rowing is not confin-
ed to Cass Lake. He travels to
most major U.S. cities, and
many foreign countries, on
business each year. In most
places he finds a rowing club
and maintains his early-
morning schedule.
"Rowing is a very close-knit
group," he explains. "For in-
stance, when I was in Israel,
I was able to row with the
Israeli Rowing Club. That's
on the Yarkon River," which
empties into the Mediterra-
nean north of Tel Aviv.
"I've made very close
friends in Israel through the
rowing," says Jacob. "In fact,
I had business in Paris, and
rowed in the Paris Rowing
Club with an Israeli who I
had met.

"If I go on the West Coast or
the , East Coast, or
Philadelphia, wherever I go
on business, I'm usually able
to find a rowing club and
know somebody."
Despite his heavy rowing
schedule, Jacob says he is not
a great rower. "I'm a very
average rower. People who are
really terrific rowers are the
ones who do nothing but row.
That is their entire dedica-
tion. They row twice a day. I
can't devote that much time
to it."
His level of skill, however,
does not affect Jacob's desire
to row. That attitude carries
over into his work. "I like to
be a participant in things, not
just to sit back and be a spec-
tator. So when it comes to
community work I really like
to be involved and put things
together and work with
others?' Jacob is on the boards
of the Jewish Vocational Ser-
vice and the Jewish Associa-
tion of Retarded Citizens, he
is active in the Allied Jewish
Campaign and is on the
young leadership cabinet of
United Jewish Appeal.
Since he credits sports with
helping to develop his own ag-
gressive attitude, Jacob
believes that sports can do the
same for others.
"I'm a real advocate of kids
participating in team sports
in high school. Because it re-
quires a lot of discipline for
kids to be on a team. If you
think about it, very few high
school teams actually cut kids
off the team. There's always a
place for him if the kid wants
to try. Most kids quit. I was
determined in high school not
to quit" the swim team.
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facilities at the kibbutzim
are rather poor. Without
modern, safe equipment you
can't learn difficult in-
dividual routines."
The U.S. gymnastics pro-
gram, he said, does not com-
pare to that of Eastern Bloc
countries like the Soviet
Union. "High school gym-
nastics competition is very
limited and there are only ten
gymnastics clubs in the coun-
try with boys teams. Russia
has 1,300 boys teams. As a
result, most college coaches
have to correct our athletes'
mistakes. We don't get them
early enough.
"And we lose our boys and
girls after they make an
Olympic team to college or
careers. In the USSR, the on-
ly way a young person can
travel is through sports.

"Then, too, at the very top
levels the Soviet coaches work
with two or three elite gym-
nasts whereas our top coaches
work with 10-12 such
athletes. Their intensive,in-
dividualized instruction is the
only way to produce Olympic
and world champions.
"When coaches come to the
U.S. from Communist coun-
tries they know more about
capitalism than we do. That's
why Bela Karoli, for instance,
is a millionaire. He's a good
coach, he works his girls very
hard, and he's very good at
promotion. But he works with
his best kids during the day
and with the others at night.
"I'm a college professor
first, a gymnastics coach se-
cond — and that's the way I
like it." ■

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