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Category Archives: Duncan Holland
Use the Ergometer Wisely
For most rowers the ergometer is something that must be put up with. Continue reading
Posted in Best Practice, Duncan Holland, Equipment, Rowperfect, Training
Tagged Coaching, ergs, indoor rower, rowing, Rowperfect, Technique, Water Sports
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Duncan Holland on Changing Ingrained Technique or The “uncoachable” Athlete
I have recently changed clubs and have got a whole new group of athletes to coach. With many of them there is an obvious and simple change that could be made to help them go faster. Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Duncan Holland, Psychology, Technique
Tagged coach rowing, Duncan Holland, Rowperfect, sculling coach
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Newsletter November 2008
The winner of our competition from the last newsletter for Mark de Rond’s book is Mike Knowles of Tideway Scullers. Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Coxing, Dreher, Duncan Holland, Rowperfect
Tagged , Adrian Ellison, Coxing, dreher aero, Duncan Holland, Mike Spraklen, tideway scullers
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Spracklen at the NZ Coaches’ Conference
The NZRowing Coaches’ Conference with a full programme of speakers and then the social highlight, a banquet in the Beehive. The major individual speaker was Mike Spracklen and he gave us the first of the three presentations we will have from him this weekend. Continue reading
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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