A veteran of international rowing and high performance sport, Volker Nolte is recently retired and now has time for even more rowing. He has coached for Canada and competed for Germany in his past. Mostly he's known for editing two books - Rowing Faster and Rowing Faster 2nd Edition. Both are on Amazon

Rowing Faster (2004) https://amzn.to/2v89iTY

Rowing Faster 2nd Edition (2011) https://amzn.to/2ui2SB8

Timestamps to the show

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02:45 Why I wanted to row at Karapiro in New Zealand

04:00 Background in rowing. Rowing is probably one of the best things that happened to me.

07:50 The perfect rowing shed

10:00 The Sliding Rigger development - my PhD thesis. I was interested in the most efficient rowing stroke

17:00 Klaus Filter in the Cold War was told by his superiors that he had to make a sliding rigger boat.

22:00 Why does a sliding rigger make the boat go faster?

Video of Ibarra and Svensson in sliding rigger singles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJNG-yh99c

Video of sliding riggers in 1982 World Championships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTbr6CZ5SY

24:00 We don't row with sliding riggers today? It's not more expensive

28:00 Rowing and the Olympics

34:00 The future of rowing - coastal as another possibility. Le Mans style start

37:00 The way changes are made in racing is sad for me. The loss of lightweight rowing. There's a a clear campaign to get rowing out of the Olympics

39:00 FISA Technical Commission don't want more electronics in the boat.

49:40 My rowing bucket list

53:00 Rowing Faster books - Ed McNeely of Human Kinetics developed the concept for the books. The second book includes personal stories as well as good science.

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