Rowing Chat

Nice Well the conditions on the lake today weren't very good, not much different to when I row on the thames to be honest in terms of how choppy it was and how hard to balance it was but then with my lake, when you get wind, you get sailing boats and windsurfers. Absolute ******* nightmare. Trying to do a piece in a boat is next to impossible.

What lake do you row on?

And yeah - we get sailboats, jetski's, windsurfers, and a random pleasure boat cruiser full of old people coming down the Tyne. Quite annoying but usually all of the above only during like the middle of the day - no problems at 8am on a Sat/Sun morning

As long as you can do a relatively confident start and you can do some sort of race pace/pressure then there's nothing wrong with having less-than-perfect technique.
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Hollingworth Lake, not a very famous one I doubt.

Oh we get the problems all the time with the windsurfers, none of the pleasure cruisers but you do sometimes get those on the thames (once our cox nearly steered us into one, this was one of the first experiences of the thames I'd ever had, I was terrified). And the windsurfers aren't just a few dotted about, there can be literally about 50 of them at any one time and it's only a small lake

I read this yesterday so tried a proper start this morning in my scull. Nearly went straight in. Definitely not as easy as it looks lol. I might try and find a 1000m race or something near where im based in a month or so and see what happens. Need to get training a lot though.

Also Ive already got a pretty decent rowing tan now. England in April, who would've thought.

I know Hollingworth Though never rowed there, I know where it is. Apparently a good location for a training camp, it was considered by us in our list for an Easter training camp, but then we didn't go anywhere



Don't do starts from full frontstops in a single, especially when you're a novice sculler. Just try it from half or 3/4 frontstops, and make sure you have a strong body position. Finally, if you get scared and wimp out of it half way through the first stroke, you'll be more likely to go in because you'll put down uneven pressure on each side - be confident and whilst you shouldn't put down FULL pressure, just make sure you keep the pressure on the first stroke and you'll be fine

Disclaimer: If you do capsize, it's not my fault

Not nearly good enough for BUCS .

Preseason next week though . Mix of exciting, scary (three sessions a day ) and fearing for my elbow (I really don't want to mess it up and its been on and off since november after something the doctors claim was tennis elbow).

Theres a beginner category for people who have only started rowing this season.

Don't know if colleges enter any teams at all though, think it might just be Durham uni boats who enter BUCS.

Just did some sculling, it's awesome If my uni boat club wasn't sweep-oar orientated and there were enough boats/people to make a team for a quad I'd definitely be converted. It also elimanates the one-sidedness (I am surprisingly one sided now despite only having rowed since October) and I also have issues with not leaning too far because I automatically go in a straight line, all elminated by sculling

Although I think the endorphins from finally being on the water again and doing exercise might have got to my head.

You know there is a very close club to you that if you joined you would basically get a single all to yourself. You're a medic as well right so that gives you many years to become awesome. You know it makes sense!

Tideway scullers? Or is there somewhere else (there are LOAAAAADS and I can't say I know much about tideway scullers or any of the others)

We have our own sculling boats, they're just very rarely used. The only reason I'm so attached to my medic-y one is cus I've made a lot of friends there and I'm sure the social life is good at the other one, but I'd miss them and their little inter-medical school races I'll look into it though, I'm sure if I was eager enough I could try and do both in moderation.

The 'rarely used' boats are the best ones to try and get a crew together to get into - you can set them up for your crew and really act like it's 'your' boat. No-one else will want to use it so you'll never have to adjust it after others.

Quads are very nice boats, but difficult to make them go as fast as they CAN go (they can go incredibly fast if you know how - I don't!).

Out in a single tonight and watched in awe as one of the other guys rowed right into the arch of a bridge whilst we were doing pieces. He didn't capsize though, luckily Was gorgeous water again on the Tyne

Tideway scullers? Or is there somewhere else (there are LOAAAAADS and I can't say I know much about tideway scullers or any of the others)

We have our own sculling boats, they're just very rarely used. The only reason I'm so attached to my medic-y one is cus I've made a lot of friends there and I'm sure the social life is good at the other one, but I'd miss them and their little inter-medical school races I'll look into it though, I'm sure if I was eager enough I could try and do both in moderation.

er im talking about one that shares your boathouse! Lots of singles, doubles, quads etc etc!

Anyhows you should go out in your double more. They're really fun, you can really feel your impact on the boat, pretty easy to balance and I find it much easier to steer than a pair.