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Category Archives: Rowing History
It’s officially Pot Hunting season!
In the UK after the serious part of the rowing year ends, the fun regattas begin. And most clubs sanction the formation of “mates crews” where you put together your own selections from your friends and travel to regattas to …
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Talking Coxswains Bo**ocks
“He was cowering away from the fierce dog”. This ranks right up there with “your donkey has eaten my passport” as a useful translation but I found it on a webpage [http://translate.definitions.net/Coxswain] that translated coxswain into 44 different languages. The …
Rowing in the movies
A new film project taking the Livingstone Brothers’ “Blood over Water” book about the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and making it into a movie prompted us to check out the best and worst of films featuring rowing or sculling. …
Posted in Henley, Racing, Rowing History
Tagged Boat Race, rowing, Sculling, The Social Network, Tideway
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New rowing e-books – some are free!
Rowperfect has started to publish e-books about rowing. We have always supported excellence in rowing and sculling technique and coaching and we’ve found some topics where athletes and coaches have a need for information and advice. So we approached some …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Rowing, Rowing History, Rowing theory, Sculling, Technique, Testing and selection, Training
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And the Rest is History!
Many people have asked me: “How does a project to spend seven years writing a four-volume history of rowing get started.” For me it all began when my step-daughter, Emily Ten Eyck, went off to Northeastern University to row. The …
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A History of Rowing by Peter Mallory 7
We continue with the History of Rowing by Peter Mallory. This part consists of Part IV of Volume I. This section includes the next 4 chapters from Volume 1 Part V Part V British Rowing in the Olympics 22. The …
A History of Rowing by Peter Mallory 6
We continue with the History of Rowing by Peter Mallory. This part consists of Part IV of Volume I. This section includes the next 5 chapters from Volume 1 Part IV Part IV English Orthodoxt Meets Classical Technique 17. Documenting …
A History of World Rowing by Peter Mallory 5
We continue with the ‘History of Rowing’ by Peter Mallory. This part consists of Part IV of Volume I. This section includes the next 2 chapters from Volume 1 Part IV Part IV English Orthodoxt Meets Classical Technique 14. Steve …
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A History of World Rowing by Peter Mallory 4
To the readers of www.Rowperfect.co.uk This is the fourth installment on www.Rowperfect.co.uk of the latest draft of the beginning of my coming new book. Many thanks again to Rebecca Caroe for making this possible. Details about me and my book …
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A History of World Rowing by Peter Mallory 3
To the readers of www.Rowperfect.co.uk This is the third installment on www.Rowperfect.co.uk of the latest draft of the beginning of my coming new book. Many thanks again to Rebecca Caroe for making this possible. Details about me and my book …
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