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.
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!
A coach is someone of either sex, usually a man at present, who borrows a bicycle and rides beside a crew.
Selecting which rowers to put in a crew is a difficult and stressful task. Choosing which cox to put in the crew is often more
It is five in the morning and I am sitting at the computer in a borrowed apartment in Zuerich, Switzerland. Shortly I will be heading
Today is the start oft he Belvoir RC New Year Camp. I am here at the lovely rowing venue of Sarnen, in Obwalden, Switzerland. My
There was ground breaking news from the NBA this week. Jason Collins, 12 year veteran, 7ft centre and Stanford graduate has come out as gay.
I have just finished an enjoyable weekend coaching the Tyred Swans, an Auckland Masters rowing group. Like most Masters they are short on coaching and
Recently I published a blog discussing the application of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers to rowing, if any. In it I mentioned the magic number of 10,000 hours of
We all know the Olympic motto Citius Altius Fortius
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.
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!
A coach is someone of either sex, usually a man at present, who borrows a bicycle and rides beside a crew.
Selecting which rowers to put in a crew is a difficult and stressful task. Choosing which cox to put in the crew is often more
It is five in the morning and I am sitting at the computer in a borrowed apartment in Zuerich, Switzerland. Shortly I will be heading
Today is the start oft he Belvoir RC New Year Camp. I am here at the lovely rowing venue of Sarnen, in Obwalden, Switzerland. My
There was ground breaking news from the NBA this week. Jason Collins, 12 year veteran, 7ft centre and Stanford graduate has come out as gay.
I have just finished an enjoyable weekend coaching the Tyred Swans, an Auckland Masters rowing group. Like most Masters they are short on coaching and
Recently I published a blog discussing the application of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers to rowing, if any. In it I mentioned the magic number of 10,000 hours of
We all know the Olympic motto Citius Altius Fortius
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