RowingChat

The Rowing Network is a new online education web portal for rowing coaches to learn how to coach rowing and sculling. Set up by Rowig Australia and Community Rowing Inc Boston, USA, we discuss the need for continual coach learning and upskilling and how to meet the learner "where they are" with online resources.

Timestamps to the interview

01:00 Introduction and background in rowing

06:00 The inspiration for the Rowing Network

08:00 Coach educator traditional role

09:00 The Challenge in coaching - learning from another coach and mentoring

11:00 Foundation of CRI is rowing for all. Coaches are the touchpoint for us. Everyone is coached.

14:00 Pathways after learn to row - two tracks

17:00 How we became a community rowing club.

24:00 Setting up the learn to row paradigm. How do coaches come in and choose to stay in the sport?

26:00 Guided tour of the RowingNetwork.org The End Goals for your coaching.

28:00 Level 1 rowing accreditation for a beginner coach

39:00 Why CRI got into coach education. You have to do it all the time to develop knowledge. Other sports don't do this. Rowing is leading the way in teaching how to be a coach.

47:00 The future for coach education. Ways to spread knowledge - Online learning.

53:00 Indoor rowing as a pathway to the water.

Matt is a four times Olympian rower with a bronze, silver and gold medal to his name. He's won international titles in every Olympic boat class - both sculling and sweep in his 15 year career.

We discuss life after rowing, what it's like having Jurgen Grobler as your coach and why rowing is addictive.

Timestamps to the interview

01:00 Introduction and background in rowing

02:00 My first coach at Northwich Rowing Club - Paul Rafferty

04:00 My best 3 rowing career years - 2016. 2001 and 2011

07:00 Switching from sculling to sweep

10:00 Mistakes I learned from - getting ill and injured and learning to train consistently

16:00 Changes I noticed when maturing as an athlete

18:00 A day in the life of a GB squad rower

21:00 Having no part in decision making about my crew and training was a challenge

23:00 What is Jurgen Grobler like as a coach? "You have your fingerprint - getting the best out of your fingerprint."

27:00 What made you move to Leander Club?

30:00 World Class Start is a talent ID scheme - I don't entirely agree with fast-tracking athletes

37:00 Why rowing is addictive. It's an honest sport

43:00 British Rowing is a closed system and secretive is this a disadvantage? "We never want to give our competitors a reason to train harder."

48:00 Does retirement beckon?

50:00 Is career transition advice available within British Rowing?

52:00 What is our cycling plan?

55:00 Can rowing develop new formats for racing?

Timestamps to the interview with Nikos Gkountoulas

01:00 Introduction and background in rowing

04:00 The recent history of rowing in Greece

08:00 FISA support for Greek rowing

11:00 Rowing with your twin brother - the fights and the friendship

13:00 Twins with identical erg scores

15:00 Moving to Ocean rowing - who was the New Zealander girls coastal 2x Nikos met at Istanbul Airport in 2011?

16:00 Coastal Rowing boats and oars

22:00 Steering an ocean rowing boat

24:00 Goal for Greek coastal rowing

26:00 World Championships provide boats for competitors

31:00 Beach Sprint Rowing - new format for racing started by Guin Batten

34:00 Asian Beach Games includes beach rowing races

41: Bronze medal in World Coastal Rowing Championships

45:00 Rowing camp in Vietnam

51:00 Thessaloniki Rowing Club adds ocean rowing training group

54:00 How can a rowing club add coastal rowing boats?

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Will Ruth, Blake Gourley, and Joe Deleo break down one of the best lifts for rowing performance, muscular balance, and back health, talking techniques, variations, and training for in-season and off-season.

Tim has set up the first online tutorial service to train rowing coxswains and I was delighted to be chatting with him on RowingChat. His experience as a regatta referee and a coxswain coach has showcased the need for improved instruction. In this interview we run through a range of tips and tactics coaches and coxswains can use to up-skill and improve their boat control.

Timestamps to the interview

01:00 Introduction and background in rowing

04:00 How to spot if coaches are failing to teach coxes well. Rowers telling the cox what to do.

05:00 Keeping your point (what it is and how to do it)

10:00 coaching coxswains - books are hard to get people to read.

13:00 start coaching by listening to a recording of a race or a practice. How often do coxes repeat themselves?

16:00 Why coxing improvements is like getting rid of a computer virus

19:00 Should a cox also be a coach?

21:00 How to make corrective calls five different ways e.g. catch timing

24:00 Teaching HOW to make a correction

25:00 Taking notes after an outing - ride in the coach launch and watch rowers individually

26:00 What does a coxswain feel? Rush and Check.

28:00 What a coxswain can hear

29:00 Simultaneously monitoring

32:00 How to choose a remedy - pick the biggest flaw first

33:00 Start by coaching the whole crew before doing individuals. The power of positive calls

38:00 Exercises and drills to reinforce technical changes. Use this to broaden vocabulary. Try new words. Pick a theme for the outing.

41:00 How to take the drill learnings into normal rowing

45:00 Encourage the crew to give feedback on pieces and what went well. Ask people individually, don't let one or two dominate.

50:00 www.coxnschool.com guided tour. 50% discount for April enrolments

55:00 The best way to know they have learned is to quiz the learner

60:00 Evaluating your recordings - number of words per minute.

Marlene Royle is a welcome return guest on RowingChat today with a talk focused on how to transition out of winter training and back onto the water for the summer.

Timestamps for Marlene Royle RowingChat

01:00 Introductions and personal background in rowing

05:00 Transitioning off the erg. Ergometer training is a linear world. Water rowing is a circular world

07:00 Fatigue level - rowing with good form. Posture, Power application, good technique, focus through hips and glutes. Limited time on the water. Avoid fatigue.

10:00 Low intensity rowing - short outings, Focus on drills. Release and Feather Drills, Red flag. Pause Drills arms and body away.

15:00 Short sets and very high quality rowing. Delayed feather drill.

19:00 He who has the better recovery wins. Ergo finishes in the boat act as a brake. Rowing feet out drill.

24:00 Benefits of dynamic egos - less tendency to be long at the finish

25:00 Lose fitness as you transition back onto the water. pre-competition phase of training programme. Light speed work, Do fitness on the erg, do technique on the water.

29:00 Flexibility and stretching are important. Hip flexibility. Last 500 Machine = The Rack!

35:00 Work in combination - high quality technique. Get lessons or go on a Training Camp. Get Coaching

40:00 moving back onto the water after injury

44:00 Stability and "The Diamond Frame"

49:00 Kettlebells for rowing training started in 1700s from Russia. Pavel Tsatsouline popularised them. Efficient, Economical, Effective training tools.

54:00 Masters suffer from "glute amnesia". Kettlebell swings stimulate the glutes. Read this book Enter the Kettlebell. And Joe de Leo's instructional video

Timestamps for topics in the podcast.

0:01 introductions and background in rowing and data analysis

0:02 What got you started in rowing data - tracking ;progress and setting realistic goals

0:04 What was your first bit of rowing electronic hardware?

0:07 What electronics do you use today? Running watch and heart rate strap, phone as a data logger for the erg (wireless) and a speed coach GPS with an HR strap

0:13 Daily Rowing Training Diary - Rate of Perceived Exertion Scale BORG rating

0:16 Sports electronics which can be used for rowing - Garmin, Strava, track my run, Peach System, Empower Oarlock, 4Runner, Polar

0:19 Fitbit and wrist mounted watches are inconvenient for sculling

0:21 5 Data Points for Rowing - Time, Distance, Stroke Rate, Heart Rate and Pace

0:41 Demonstration and guided tour of Rowsandall online app for new users

0:45 Data exporting

0:48 Heart rate data - resting heart rate; Heart rate training zones based on max HR measure.

0:53 Data Patterns in heart rate data

0:54 When is heart rate not suitable to be tracked

0:58 Recovery for heart rate tracking

Rowing Strength Coach Roundtable: Episode 5: Performance Psychology For Rowers by Rebecca Caroe

Streamed live on Oct 15, 2016

Shownotes: https://www.rowperfect.co.uk/strength...

0:00 — Re-introductions and what we’ve been up to over summer and fall

5:15 — Common and controllable factors that rowers can use to improve their recovery from training

22:20 — How to develop your own personal recovery protocol

45:50 — What you can do right now from home to start recovering better

53:38 — Last words from Will, Blake, and Joe

RowingChat today was with Guin Batten a pioneer leading new racing formats for beach rowing, coastal rowing and an energetic ambassador for the sport.

She has taken on many new challenges such as rowing in the Maldives, winning the Coastal Rowing world championships and inventing beach rowing for the World Beach Games since winning a silver medal with the Great Britain Rowing team for the Athens Olympics.

We have collated timestamps for the key points we covered during the interview.

01:00 Introductions and personal background in rowing

09:00 New explorations in rowing - challenge crossings, outrigger canoe rowing

12:00 Coastal Rowing champs - format and boat classes - creating jeopardy in racing gives exciting finishes

15:00 Beach Rowing discipline - boat handlers, Coastal rowing boat manufacturers (Euro Diffusions, Filippi, Mats Leo)

24:00 Lake Geneva venue for Coastal World Rowing Championships October 2017

26:00 Heritage rowing as sport - St Lawrence River ice rowing, Wingfield Sculls, protect our heritage and traditions

31:00 The Beach Games - multi-sport event

33:00 Committee Boats

35:00 Youth sport is to improve the lives of young people

45:00 How to encourage young people into rowing

47:00 Rowing gives something special to participants as the ultimate team sport

51:00 SUP rowing boats - stiffness of the pin against your feet - you always need good oars