How important is dry land training?

[SkiJay]

Practicing swinging back and forth behind a moving boat by pulling on a handle tied to a post is like practicing your golf swing by holding your club in the impact position for five minutes without moving.

[Murrski]

I answered important because I finally changed my grip - going from right palm up to left palm up and I'm RFF. I dry dock trained 3-4 times a week in between workout sets. The transition of grip was absolutely huge for my offside turn and pull. I'm convinced that without the dry dock training I would have ended up with a abbreviated trial run with a return back to right palm up. So, for this season it was important - if not for that needed change I would say it wasn't important.

[ForrestGump]

Now in the case of switching grip, I can definitely see some benefit in it.

[thager]

Without getting specific there are some things dry land practice has helped me with including using visualization,

[ral]

@Horton, just landing in Miami after an 8 hour flight, and still have to go to JFK on my way to Helsinki, so poor reading performance, just read the title. Need to change my answer to NO, I do not lean on a rope as an important part of my training...