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Category Archives: Coaching
2 new Video Analysis tools for Coaches
Apps for video analysis are getting easier and easier to find. This week we review two: Sprongo and Coaches Eye. And I have to admit these are a great innovation. If you are a consensual coach this will be an attractive tool …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Equipment, Rowing theory, Technique, Testing and selection
Tagged coach video analysis, Rowing video
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Monthly Prize Draw for March 2012
Each month subscribers to the Rowperfect newsletter are included in a free prize draw to win one of our products. This month the prize is a free 20 minute Skype consultation with Duncan Holland our guest rowing coach and the …
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What to pack for a training camp
Here’s a quick check list for you to ensure you haven’t forgotten anything for your training camp For Athletes Kit – how much to take? Allow three complete changes of clothing per day and one day to dry it out …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Coxing, Racing, Rowing, Rowing theory, Sculling, Technique, Training
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Wayne Goldsmith: 10 key behaviours that underpin successful coaches
Rowperfect was at a coaching conference over the weekend and the guest speaker was Wayne Goldsmith. He’s a sports management thinker and leader who has helped dozens of teams and sporting organisations improve how they work to achieve their goals. …
Posted in Best Practice, Club Management, Coaching, Interview, Juniors, Rowing theory
Tagged Coaching, Leadership, Rowperfect, wayne goldsmith
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How to recover from a collapse in mental confidence
Winning and losing are close friends and mentally an athlete can shift from one to the other frighteningly fast. We read this article about Canadian Olympic swimmer, Stefan Hirniak who bombed out of the 2008 Olympic selection trials after being ‘in …
Posted in Coaching, Competition, Psychology, Racing
Tagged olympic games, Randy Bennett, Stefan Hirniak
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Paddy’s Story or why an old man started coxing
Chris de Guingand initially met Paddy Davison and his wife Jules on a cruise between St Petersburg and Moscow. They struck up a warm friendship and in September 2010 when Chris and Margaret celebrated 50 years of marriage, Paddy and …
Posted in Best Practice, Club Management, Coaching, Coxing, Interview
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The joy and despair of crew selection decisions
Around this time of year crews are selected for summer racing in the Northern Hemisphere and by national team selectors for the World Champs and Olympics. Selection is a tense, nervous time for athletes and it has a particular set …
Goal oriented versus Process oriented training – which type of athlete are you?
A guest post from the Association of Rowing Coaches of South Africa What is a goal-oriented athlete like? Goal oriented athletes Simplistically, goal oriented athletes see their results in competition as the be-all, end-all of their training endeavors. This is …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Psychology, Training
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Using bodyweight to scull faster
Raf found this great blog post from Troy Howell in which he aligns Nordic Ski-ing with sculling and draws brilliant prarallels with the best scullers and the mediocre. If you want good cross-training it seems that nordic ski-ing is a …
Tales from a “Tyred Swans” outing
A guest post by Tonia Williams, rowing artist and a club-mate at North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland [Tyred Swans is a joke on kiwi plant pots, the club logo and the state of the master's training group]. While the wind wailed …