This weekend there will be over 300 rowers competing on Lake Ruataniwha
I will be cheering through cyberspace for the crimson crews at Henley this year.
For most rowers the ergometer is something that must be put up with.
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.
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.
Some of you may know a little about Steve Fairbairn. Long time Jesus College coach, founder of the London Head of the River Race, originator, or a least populariser of, many sayings still current in our sport.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This weekend there will be over 300 rowers competing on Lake Ruataniwha
I will be cheering through cyberspace for the crimson crews at Henley this year.
For most rowers the ergometer is something that must be put up with.
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.
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.
Some of you may know a little about Steve Fairbairn. Long time Jesus College coach, founder of the London Head of the River Race, originator, or a least populariser of, many sayings still current in our sport.
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.
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.
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.
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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