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Category Archives: Competition
Tips for planning your race for the Eights Head
The Mens head is coming up. Guys – grab your chances and learn froom the wining womens crew from last weekend. Thames RC coxswain Hannah has uploaded her race video and helpfully overlaid it with comments so you can see …
Posted in Competition, Coxing, Racing
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Esther Lofgren gives advice on 2k ergo tests
Esther Lofgren is in the US Womens Eight her blog is here she shares some of her ideas about getting ready to have a great 2K erg test. Confession time: I had a period when I really struggled with erg tests. …
Posted in Best Practice, Competition, Ergo, Racing
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CRASH-B and Row2K showcase technical problems “en masse”
A guest post by Xeno Muller who observed the US ergo competition ‘CRASH-B‘ with a view to technique improvement. You may also want to read our contentious post about erg style. Technical issues to consider: You may have heard about …
Posted in Competition, Ergo, Technique
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Quirky Rowing Websites: the Boat Race
Once a year the world becomes very keen on rowing when the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race dawns. In the weeks prior the UK press has a daily frenzy of speculation and watches each crew train daily. The event website …
How to Steer the Tideway Eights Head
The Womens Eights head is coming up and two weeks later, the Eights Head (for men). Each year crews come to London to race who are not familiar with the course and how to steer the complexities of the Tideway. …
Posted in Competition, Coxing, Racing, Rowing
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Mahe Drysdale’s training diary
Mahe Drysdale has taken delivery of a new RP3 Rowperfect. Here is his training diary for the past month. Firstly on the training Over the last month training has involved a lot of miles on the water and even more …
Posted in Competition, Equipment, Olympics, Rowperfect, Rowperfect Software
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A Rower’s Resolution
I’ve given you a couple of weeks but now it’s time to ask: How are those New Year resolutions coming on? You did make some, didn’t you? Can you remember what you wanted to be in those giddy moments after …
Posted in Best Practice, Competition, Rowing, Sculling, Training
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Rowing and Rage
Do you suffer anger and use it to focus your rowing efforts? How do you channel your anger, rage and energies for rowing? Take a read of this blog post – written by a non-rower – it has great resonance …
Posted in Coaching, Competition, Ergo, Racing
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Competitions for rowers – please share and vote
It seems contests are in the air for 2012. HEre are two related to rowing – help the organisers and the competitors by sharing and voiting, please. Junior Rowers Video contest We’ve just had a message from the River and …
Posted in Competition, Juniors
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Fiona Dennis replies: Moving the British Champs date
Fiona Dennis is Chairman of the Working Party and has written a reply giving her views on the wide ranging discussion that’s been going on both on this site and others about the new date for the National Rowing championships …
Posted in Club Management, Competition, Racing
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