RowingChat

RowingChat

By Rebecca CaroeSports
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RowingChat episodes

  • RowingChat: Michael Danziger author Small Puddles. RIP
    Zig Danziger spent 30 years writing the book about his time on the Rowing team at Yale University. He died last week and
    Small Puddles
    his friends and colleagues joined me on this week's RowingChat in his memory.
    Carole Claps is his publicist, Alix James is mentioned in the book and rowed at Yale on the womens team, Dave Vogel was his coach of the lightweight squad and Mike Hard was his best friend.
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 Introduction and connections to Zig
    05:00 Zig was the most altruistic person I ever met - Carole
    09:00 The "Golden Oar" awards dinner story - where's the check / cheque?
    14:00 What it was like rowing at Yale in 1980s - Alix
    16:00 Title IX and the naked sit-in at the athletic director's office
    22:00 Quitting the program wasn't an option
    24:00 As a coach, I had little incentive to drop an athlete - Dave.  My first memory of Zig
    34:00 How rowing creates bonds that help to overcome adversity
    36.00 The psychology of the non-quitter.  An environment that encourages testing yourself and surpassing your limits.
    42:00 The top rowers were "Gods"
    46:00 Why buy the book?  The mundane details of collegiate rowing life are accurately described.  Rowing is an organising force for self-management. 
    As a sport it's a moving meditation.
    53 min
  • RowingChat: Bo Hanson Athlete Assessments
    Bo Hanson has three Olympic Medals representing Australia and now leads the Athlete Assessments business tutoring coaches in the techniques that build resilient athletes and "toughness"
    Timestamps
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    02:00 Why is rowing different from other sports?  Accountability and responsibility from the athletes. 
    05:00 What is athlete toughness?  Strategies to develop these qualities.  Most teams don't set goals effectively.
    08:00 The equation of Toughness W-I-S-E. Why, Identity, Strategies, Environment. 
    11:00 This generation's experience is different from previous ones
    14:00 How to communicate - creating engagement by coaching styles.  
    16:00 Situation - Behaviour - Result.  The DISC Model for sport.
    19:00 Work in Threes.  Listening before you go out rowing.
    21.00 Getting on the same page before an outing.  GRUP Model.  Goals, Role, Understand, Process/procedure.
    27:00 Role switches as a learning experience.
    29:00 Conflict in a rowing crew.  Start with the point of commonality.  Behavioural clash - what's the best outcome for the crew?  Diversity creates better results.  Values Clash (philosophically) needs a hard conversation.
    34:00 Bo's own role in his Olympic crews
    36:00 The 2000 Olympic final against Sir Steve Redgrave and Matt Pinsent in GBR 4-
    41:00 How to approach setting up a new crew.  Objectives and Expectations.
    44:00 How to be an effective team.  Productive relationships and how to adapt.  There's no individual in rowing.  Be the best person for the boat rather than the best person in the boat.
    47:00 Skills for working effectively.  Differences are a positive.  Harmony over honesty isn't always good.
    50:00 Race planning and preparation - what information can you reuse and at what part of the race as fatigue encroaches
    52:00 Physical pain in rowing.  Working around the stroke cycle - directed and productive focus.
    56:00 Tim McLaren - inspired the work Bo does today.  He builds phenomenal relationships, has an extraordinary ability to innovate and made it possible for Bo to aspire to a higher standard himself.
    1 hr 2 min
  • RowingChat: Advanced Rowing with Charlie Simpson and Jim Flood
    Advanced Rowing book authors, Charles Simpson and Jim Flood explain what's different and similar about top rowing coaching and how to learn from others.
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    04:00 Why we wrote the Advanced Rowing book
    06:00 The process of coaching - it makes us curious
    08:00 Dissatisfaction with coaching structures - symptoms are athletes unsure what to do, drop outs, no clear objectives.
    11:00 Dave O'Neill head coach at University of Texas - talking vs listening
    13:00 The structure of the book, international / clubs and universities / 8 themes to each chapte
    16:00 Norway and Denmark excel on a shoestring budget
    19:00 Efficiency of funds and ti use.  Clubs can learn.  What you don't have is not an excuse not to do well.
    23.00 Coaching as a process of experiments.  It's full of ideas nad resources.  Spot the difference between club and international squads.
    26:00 Cross training to avoid boredom and injury.
    30:00 The benefits of tracking total training load.  Trusting athlete choices.  Bond and Murray training data is on PubMed
    34:00 Variations of coaching style and athlete preferences
    40:00 How to interview rowing coaches
    44:00 Can we learn the skill of asking questions?  Why it does not exist now
    46:00 Rowing as art and science - selection is predicting the future.  Science informs process but doesn't dictate outcomes.
    51:00 Data in rowing - make sure it's valid first.  Collect systematically and accurately.  Get good kit.
    54:00 Immersive training environments 
    57:00 Predictive times for races.  Prognostic Times for Rowing ebook.
    1 hr
  • RowingChat: Penny Chuter former Head Coach British Rowing & FISA Development Coach
    Penny was head coach of British Rowing and a forceful advocate for equal womens events at international FISA regattas. Her insights into athlete flow and patterns of movement are instructional for all students of Rowing technique and skilful movement of boats.
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    08:00 My whole life is surrounded by silver medals - as a coach and as an athlete.
    10:00 Punting and coaching.  
    11:00 Open Skills and Closed Skills, Flow patterns in athletes - bound flow and free flow
    18:00 How to spot bound versus free flow athletes - "Contained" or "Controlled" athletes
    19:00 Seat racing when it's best to use
    23:00 The international athletes who are free flow types
    26.00 Teaching flow characteristics
    30:00 ARA internationally how it was run before the British National Lottery funding
    33:00 The selection process
    49:00 Trials and selection boards - Pairs matrix, seat racing, long distance assessments in small boats
    51:00 Cornish Pilot Gigs - coaching.  How to get the best out of this particular boat / crew
    57:00 Underhand grip - a challenge to change technique
    49:00 How to accelerate your learning - video review
    55:00 FISA Fairness commission, the sexism in 1970s FISA and fighting for womens events
    58:00 1987 Copenhagen World Champs were unfair.  Martin Cross complained and was over-ruled.  Then they introduced seeding based on Penny's lobbying.
    60:00 Introduced athletes representatives and appeals panel and the FISA Athletes Commission
    1 hr 3 min
  • RowingChat: Craftsbury Sculling Center
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    03:00 Why go on camp?  Does this make the boat go better?
    07:00 A day at camp
    10:00 How to provide technical focus
    12:00 Advantages of small boats for learning
    15:00 Coaching language and the challenge of moving from coaching beginners to advanced athletes
    17:00 How to get new coaches joining your team "playing in the same sandbox"
    21.00 the cardinal sin of coaching in a group setting
    26:00 What's it like coming on camp?  How to book craftsbury.com
    34:00 The purpose of camp for youth
    36:00 Training camp workout structure
    39:00 If you're constantly focused on racing, you're missing half the sport
    40:00 Favourite drills are comfort in the boat, thinking in the direction of the boat, letting go of the oar handle
    49:00 How to accelerate your learning - video review
    53:00 Drill work that you integrate into sculling & taking notes, 
    56:00 Lido for Time
    1 hr
  • RowingChat: Rebecca Caroe, owner of Rowperfect UK
    We decided to turn the tables for August and to interview Rebecca Caroe who hosts RowingChat. Joe de Leo, expert podcaster from the Leo Training Podcast agreed to be the guest host.
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    08:00 My introduction to Thames Tradesmens Rowing Club
    12:00 Being an athlete and being a coach
    15:00 The perfect race - have you had one?
    20:00 How Rowperfect UK got started and developed as a business
    25:00 Education for Rowing
    34:00 Rowing Data - the future needs
    37.00 Using drills and exercises three times
    40:00 What's new and coming up for Rowperfect?
    45:00 What could Rowperfect do differently to better serve you?
    48:00 More hosts for RowingChat - could you become a rowing podcaster?
    52:00 The future of rowing clubs - access - flexibility of mode - modern busy lives - health and wellness
    1 hr 3 min
  • RowingChat: Adrian Ellison Olympic Coxswain
    Timestamps to the interview
    01:00 background in rowing
    02:00 My first coaches - Tony Martin and Tony Tinckle at Reading University Rowing Club
    03:00 What was international selection like in 1981? How I got selected for 2+ at World Championships and I won my first international medal.
    08:00 working and training through the year in 80s?
    10:00 the lead up to 1984 Olympics and selections. Initial crew was coached by Mike Spracklen. Initial crew was Richard Budgett, Martin Cross, Andy Holmes and John Beattie and Steve Redgrave pushed Beattie out.
    15:00 The Olympic final 1984 narrated by Adrian.
    17:00 USA jets squeal overhead and Adrian’s push isn’t heard leading to switching Martin Cross as race tactician
    21.00 The calls in the race including the “desperation in his voice” The feeling of relief at the end of the race
    23:00 The skilful execution of Plan A, Plan B or Plan C is the definition of a skilful rowing crew and coping with unexpected circumstances.
    26:00 How to spot significant moments in a race when win or lose can be decided.
    28:00 The mark of a really good cox / crew is sometimes taking the rate down not up
    30:00 How to improve your coxing skills. Get into a crew with someone more experienced
    34:00 Listen to what top coxswains say - get audio recordings and videos as training
    35:00 Cox as the technical coach in the boat - what you look out for
    40:00 Understanding the calls and what they mean and how to do the same thing in the same way
    42:00 First outing with a new crew and what I feel when in the boat
    46:00 What numbers do your follow on the Coxmate SX?
    48:00 What do you do to prepare to race with a crew - what do they want me to do? The best coxswain for a crew is one who gives them what they want.
    51:00 The coxswain in the gym - how do you work with a coach as an effective coxswain?
    54:00 How can coxswains be effective working with a coach?
    60:00 Comparison between New Zealand and Great Britain rowing
    64:00 Reflections on coxing for 40 years - I’m a better coxswain now than when I was on the GB national team
    1 hr 7 min

About RowingChat

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Rowing Chat is the podcast network dedicated to rowing. We have many shows hosted from around the world on specialist topics from Strength Training to USA news, from interviews to data analysis. Produced by Rebecca Caroe, it brings rowing news, coaching advice and interviews to you.

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