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Marlene and Rebecca discuss

- synchronising male / female masters crews

- solving a leftwards lean in a scull

- Buying a boat

- FISA Masters Regatta

- Masters Nutrition Webinar from Rowing New Zealand

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Timestamps to the show

04:15 Synchronising male and female mixed crews - look if your oars are parallel; check catch and finish timings - clues you are not together. Easy things to adjust - foot stretchers, Hips level with the pin, practice timing drills to blend your strokes together.

12:50 Buying a boat - Have you got storage space? The type of boat should suit your water and racing choices. Different pricing levels. The right size for your body weight. Comfort is key. Test drive as many as you can.

19:00 Buying second hand rowing boats - how to get a 'deal'.

27:00 Solving a leftwards lean in a single scull. Check your hand positions at crossover, sit square on the seat, are your elbows dropped? Get a functional movement assessment. Video yourself to see where you go off of center during the stroke cycle.

34:00 Squeeky oarlocks in a single scull. Clean them, check the inserts - consider olive oil as a lubricant.

World Rowing FISA Masters Regatta

http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2020-world-rowing-virtual-masters-regatta/event-information

NEW ZEALAND MASTERS NUTRITION SEMINAR

Rowing NZ will host a virtual Masters nutrition seminar with High Performance Sport New Zealand Senior Performance Nutritionist Christel Dunshea-Mooij. Christel will also be joined by recently retired elite rower Sophie Mackenzie, a qualified personal trainer, yoga teacher and holistic nutritionist.

Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 19 August here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436503668

Dan is a former US international athlete, coach and was first famous for being part of the "Oxford Mutiny" of 1987. He now builds high performing teams based on the principles he learned from rowing.

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Timestamps to the show

02:15 Background in rowing at Navy and 1988 Olympic team for USA

05:00 When is a rower "ready" to move the the next stage? Cultivate a belief system in yourself and a vision that you are capable of taking those steps.

07:00 Trialing with Harry Parker at Princeton for the 1980 Olympics

When you have the opportunity to bring someone to a higher level, you have to take it.

11:00 Seat Racing - when you switch in this is YOUR crew. What is the rhythm? Announce yourself and ask what are you emphasising? Lock your gaze onto the back of the neck of the person in front. It's all about alignment.

17:00 Rowing at Oxford with 4 other US international calibre athletes. Most were stroke side but the President was also strokeside and had effectively selected himself out of the boat. Dan Topolski wasn't there all the time - 2 week rotations. There was also a telephone workers strike so we couldn't phone each other. We were used to having more direction from a coach. Tony Ward asked Dan to stand up for them and so they went to see Donald Macdonald the President - he called this a mutiny.

23:50 Communication is key. We could have solved this - the entire crew should have been brought together. This would have prevented the factions forming. Vital to meet regularly.

29:00 Tongue blade boards. At the Naval Academy this is how they do the crew assignments. Coach Ken Dreyfuss gave me my tongue blade with the exclamation point on it.

33:00 If I had been thinking individual glory, my path would have been very different. The team strives together. Team Concepts is workin to overcome what divides us. Focus instead on what we have in common.

37:00 Where to start with a new team? Start with Mission and Purpose. Align that and then everyone wants to feel valued. Enable the effort. Gives the base motivation to give import to what they are doing.

42:00 Rowers align around a large set of commonalities. Bridge the issues that divide us in society using my new project the Phoenix Initiative. We create teams for economic value to create organisations and businesses tied to the issues that divide us.

46:00 Citizens Councils like the Irish ones on abortion and gay marriage. The determining factor is commitment from the leadership. They are reliant on energy which if they get it from divisiveness, this gives then more energy.

Marlene and Rebecca discuss

- synchronising male / female masters crews

- solving a leftwards lean in a scull

- Buying a boat

- FISA Masters Regatta

- Masters Nutrition Webinar from Rowing New Zealand

Sponsors

Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging

https://rowing.chat/sponsor/nuts-and-bolts-guide-to-rigging/

NK Speedcoach Summer Regatta Series

https://rowing.chat/sponsor/speedcoach-summer-regatta-series/

Timestamps to the show

04:15 Synchronising male and female mixed crews - look if your oars are parallel; check catch and finish timings - clues you are not together. Easy things to adjust - foot stretchers, Hips level with the pin, practice timing drills to blend your strokes together.

12:50 Buying a boat - Have you got storage space? The type of boat should suit your water and racing choices. Different pricing levels. The right size for your body weight. Comfort is key. Test drive as many as you can.

19:00 Buying second hand rowing boats - how to get a 'deal'.

27:00 Solving a leftwards lean in a single scull. Check your hand positions at crossover, sit square on the seat, are your elbows dropped? Get a functional movement assessment. Video yourself to see where you go off of center during the stroke cycle.

34:00 Squeeky oarlocks in a single scull. Clean them, check the inserts - consider olive oil as a lubricant.

World Rowing FISA Masters Regatta

http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2020-world-rowing-virtual-masters-regatta/event-information

NEW ZEALAND MASTERS NUTRITION SEMINAR

Rowing NZ will host a virtual Masters nutrition seminar with High Performance Sport New Zealand Senior Performance Nutritionist Christel Dunshea-Mooij. Christel will also be joined by recently retired elite rower Sophie Mackenzie, a qualified personal trainer, yoga teacher and holistic nutritionist.

Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 19 August here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436503668

In this episode, you will meet the inspiring principals in the documentary "A Most Beautiful Thing" - Arshay Cooper, Alvin Ross, Preston Grandberry, Malcolm Hawkins, and Ray “Pookie G” Hawkins, and their first coach, Ken Alpart. The newly released film, directed by Olympic rower Mary Mazzio (50 Eggs Films), is drawing deep praise across the country. Boston rower Mona Granucci (#communityrowing) hosts this episode, produced by PiercePress.com

The documentary explores the safety and brotherhood these young men found on the water (“we were in a place where we could not hear the sound of sirens”), as well as the trauma of violence and cyclical poverty that they endured first-hand. The documentary explores how these young men were able to support each other in re-imagining a different future for themselves, and how rowing and the water drew them to that opportunity. These young men came together, after 20 years out of the boat, to race this past summer, not only to celebrate the team’s founding, but the fact that they are still alive. This is their story.

Rebecca reviews the feedback from listeners about Rowing Chat Podcasts.

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- Likes include great information, knowledgeable hosts, tips, skills, club news, taking masters seriously, and coaches sharing their experience.

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We have taken all your insights on board and are working to improve the good things and mitigate the bad.

Questions and topics this week for Marlene Royle and Rebecca Caroe asked by Masters Rowers just like you.

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Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging

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Speedcoach Summer Regatta Series

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Timestamps to the show

05:00 Bonus this month is a video assessment for Faster Masters subscribers. Get eyes on your rowing if you don't have regular coaching

07:00 Improving movement and technique as you age - Marlene presents at Craftsbury webinar

https://www.craftsbury.com/camp-schedule-1/sculling-webinar-series-6-2020

10:00 I already have your 3 month 1k training program. I am considering the heads program but unsure how having these two programs may be different from an individual membership.

Stock programs for Head Racing and 1k Racing are standardized. You need qualified guidance and a steady progression and Faster Masters Individual subscription is much more specific.

14:00 Recommended stretches for sore forearms

Check the size of your oar handles

Focus on holding the handle correctly.

17:30 Forearm stretches for after your outing

20:00 Improving bladework. Marlene is on the warpath over sloppy bladework. What to do about it.

Spend the time. There is no limit on improving bladework as you age (unlike fitness and boat speed). Be diligent about your bladework, without it you have schumutz.

Ask your own question - https://fastermastersrowing.com/register/question-email/

Alfred Campenaerts talks about developing a game to play on the erg.

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Timestamps

02:20 Alfred is the project lead on Salty Lemon entertainment who build video games

3:00 What gave you the idea for this game? Alfred's brother is a professional cyclist who plays Zwift virtual cycling and the local Flanders Rowing Federation approached them to solve the problem of indoor rowing being boring.

Watch the EXR games launch video

06:30 It supports the Concept2 indoor rowing machine

08:00 there is one demo map of a lake and there will be many more in future. Using Google Maps data to build a 1 to 1 scale of famous rowing rivers

09:20 There are four game modes

- Just row

- Training Mode - includes scheduling and custom pacing

- Competition mode

- Mini Games such as 'shark attack' where a shark follows your rowing and you have to get faster to escape

13:00 Alfred wants more beta testers - it is a closed beta. Apply to join on the website

https://exrgame.com/

Mention RowingChat when you apply.

Buying a single or double sculling boat may not be a dating game, but these days it can be just as stress-inducing - or thrilling, depending on your perspective! Our correspondent Mark Wilson of All-American Rowing Camp reveals some inside tricks and essential strategies for finding a sculling boat while the pandemic limits sweeps options. PLUS: Rowing News Roundup with Kymberly Reynolds of ROW

Tara is the leading world expert on para rowing coach education and inclusion for rowing clubs. Together we talk future plans, a conference and rowing coach certification.

Sponsor

NK is running the Speedcoach Summer Regatta series - virtual events everyone can take part in

https://rowing.chat/sponsor/speedcoach-summer-regatta-series/

Timestamps

02:50 Introduction and background in rowing. Known for founding Seize the Oar Foundation

04:00 Adaptive Team Training - outreach

05:30 Para Rowing Global Meetups during lockdown. Challenges with athletes to coach due to proximity issues. Return to rowing guidelines varied by country. We looked to Australia to their guidelines - Liam James at Balmain RC.

08:00 Essential Eligibility Criteria - EEC

10:00 70 people came to the first meetup from around the globe. Breakout sessions were working meetings. All resources and findings are on the website

http://www.seizetheoar.com/

14:30 Inclusive Coaching Conference - September 18-19. A Virtual event. The toolkit needs to be broadened and expanded. Topics

- Talk about para - how to assess your boathouse for disabled rowing

- Rows before Hoes - toxic masculinity discussion

- Coaches being furloughed - preserving institutional knowledge

- Know where you row - indigenous geography and history of your river / lake

25:00 Adaptive rowing Coaching Certification. The most successful clubs are those who have a flexible program with the goal of building coach confidence. We want to create trust. If you want to take the needs assessment survey, it's being mailed next week.

33:00 The difference between personal health and public health.

Marlene Royle and Rebecca Caroe discuss

- making an emergency stop in a rowing boat

- how to do a standing entry into a boat from the dock

- rowing with sweaty hands in warm weather

Sponsor

Speedcoach Summer Regatta Series

https://rowing.chat/sponsor/speedcoach-summer-regatta-series/

Timestamps to the show

02:20 Staying on your program during weird times. If you abandon your rowing training program the spiral down happens quickly. Keep your long term goals, and view rowing as a process.

07:00 Dealing with goose poo on your dock or pontoon - how to repel swans and ducks

10:50 Emergency stops - how to do them and how to avoid having to make them

14:30 Look around to avoid having to stop. Call out to other water users as a precaution.

18:00 Traffic patterns and circulation rules for your local water for public access.

23:00 Rowing with sweaty hands in hot weather

27:00 How to do a standing entry into a boat from the dock

34:00 Last week's exercise - feedback