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Author Archives: Duncan Holland
Fairbairn is still relevant.
Some of you may know a little about Steve Fairbairn. Long time Jesus College coach, founder of the London Head of the River Race, originator, or a least populariser of, many sayings still current in our sport. Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Technique
Tagged Duncan Holland, Fairbairn, Jesus College., Mileage makes Champions
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Back in Enzed
After a hiatus that was associated with moving us, and our household across the world to our former home in Christchurch New Zealand we are back at work in rowing. Continue reading
Judgement Day
We all know the Olympic motto Citius Altius Fortius Continue reading
Posted in Duncan Holland, Umpires
Tagged 0.01seconds, Duncan Holland, Fallon, Karsten, Neikova, Olympics, Umpires, Victory
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Olympics Day 1 by Duncan Holland
I watched the first day of the rowing this morning, what a day for the Kiwis! Seven of the New Zealand crews were on the water today and they brought home five first places and two seconds. Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Olympics, Psychology
Tagged Duncan Holland, Kiwis, New Zealand, Olympics, rowing
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No Mr Barnes.
Simon Barnes who writes on sport and nature for the Times is one of my favourites. His pieces often look behind the obvious and trite and he frequently sees beauty and poetry in sport. Continue reading
When to start?
I wrote a couple of days ago about how rowing clubs should look after talented youngsters who weren’t part of a National Talent scheme. Today as I browsed the rowing sites and was looking at the Row2k US Olympic trivia I found something that caused me to think.
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Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Olympics, Testing and selection
Tagged Duncan Holland, learn to row, Netherlands, Novices, USA
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Nature or Nurture?
I watched a BBC programme last night, ‘Colin Jackson, the making of me ’. The programme addressed the old nature versus nurture debate in the context of Jackson Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Testing and selection, Training
Tagged BBC, Colin Jackson, Duncan Holland, Nature v Nurture, rowing, talent
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There is such a thing as society!
Maggie Thatcher famously claimed that ‘There is no such thing as society ’. I don’t wish to be handbagged by the shade of the Iron Lady but my experiences this week on, and around, the Cam lead me to a different conclusion. Continue reading
Posted in Duncan Holland, Racing
Tagged Bumps, Duncan Holland, handbags, Maggie Thatcher, rowing, society
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Nerves.
I promised yesterday to tell you how we got on today in the Cambridge Town Bumps . The answer is; very well. We managed to get our third bump of the week and stand on the edge of a clean sweep and the right to Blades.
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Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Olympics, Psychology, Racing
Tagged Blades, Bumps, Duncan Holland, Nerves, Olympics
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Just like the real thing.
I wrote yesterday about how I was struck by the similarity between the post-race analyses of our Bumps crew and that of a high-performance outfit. Last night I realised that there is a further analogy that is of interest, to me anyway! Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Psychology, Racing
Tagged Bumps, Champion of the Thames, Duncan Holland, pressure
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