Rowing Chat

Nope, I mean he, (he never revealed his height so we had him followed by a girl a bit taller than him, and she was 5"5, haha). He does triathlon as well, though, and he is massive. But small.

I'm 5'6. I'm taller than 3 of the girls on my team (one is no bigger than about 5'3, she used to be a cox) so I don't know why people view me as being so short

Nyaaawh

I'm 5"7 and amongst the smallest of the club



Ginger as well. I feel sorry for him

I'm 5'6. I'm taller than 3 of the girls on my team (one is no bigger than about 5'3, she used to be a cox) so I don't know why people view me as being so short

5'6 isn't small at all!!

The women in the squad at Tyne are probably on average around 5'6, though a few are shorter.

I'm easily the shortest guy in the men's squad though. Gutted!

Someone actually said my height is kind of deceptive so I think it might be people's imaginations. That and one of my closest friends also in my team is like 6'1 so I'm a bit dwarfed when I'm in any close proximity to her.

Also bad times Though to be fair I know some really tall guys who have very poor technique so I guess it's not everything.

I'm hoping to row at uni next year, I'm 18 in August, and pretty much 6'1/82kg. World Class Start though, with their whole 'have to be 6'2' thing is annoying me a bit, especially seen as my family trend is to grow 2+ inches from 18 - 21.

Who says you have to be 6'2? The tallest person I know in my boat club out of the girls is 6'1, and she's tallest by a mile. The others are probably averaging a couple of inches taller than me (I'm 5'6) and probably the other tall ones are about 5'10 at most. I thought that would be pretty rare for a girl.

Ooooooh I hope I grow 2 inches before I'm 21, though that's probably a little optimistic.

Yeah I get that, whenever we have team/squad photos I always insist on standing next to the cox or something, NOT next to the huge guys! Though have to be careful sometimes as people have mistaken ME for the cox before. Gutted. Though I have done plenty of coxing before so it's quite understandable.

And yeah. There's a tall guy in our squad, he gets fantastic erg scores but his technique is dreadful. We were out in singles this morning doing 2 minutes on, 2 minutes off for, errr (need to work this out - 12 x 2min pieces) so 48 minutes in total, and I set off ahead of him and just sat in front of him for most of the way, until we got a dreadful headwind which just blows us lightweights all over the place and he swanned on by.

THEN HE CAPSIZED HAHA

It's 6"2 for guys and 5"10 for girls, we have 3/4 people doing the World Class programme (one of them just cannot skip with a rope, it's hilarious although completely unrelated), and Adi, their coach is absolutely awesome . I might have a bit of a crush on her, actually. Just a bit.

Ooooh I see, never heard of that. What actually is it? I was going to say 6'2 for a girl was fairly optimistic

Do you not talk about rowing so much you get adverts for anything rowing-related on FB? It was one of them at one point, haha, now they're trying to convince me to get some rowing applications for an iPhone I don't have… Anyway, details on the ARA website: http://www.britishrowing.org/gb/start-programme

I do, I'm just unobservant. I did get notice the rowing thing for the iphone though, I have an ipod touch so I looked at it and it looked fairly useless (just recording erg scores and monitoring how close you are to your target... what's wrong with a simple pen and paper these days ) and it cost money

Have you tried the fish game on Concept 2 ergs? It's crap but it makes me laugh

Have you tried the fish game on Concept 2 ergs? It's crap but it makes me laugh

I didn't realise they had one until my friend told me about a week ago, I'm going to have a go when I get back to uni and get to a gym. It'll make an amusing change from me watching the time and metres go up which can sometimes be a bit demotivating.

Isn't there a darts one as well?

I don't understand that fish game? You seem to go up if you row and then drop really slowly if you don't? Leads to a really awkward rowing style. Or does it drop if you row slowly and go up if you row faster? That would be better.

Daaaarts?! Ooooh, didn't find that one



The more you put pressure down the more it goes up. But it's definitely not a good work out, lmao, it gets you rowing really irregularly

I may be making it up, I swear my friend said darts or something similar

Well the irregularity of the rowing technique it makes me have will probably still be far better than some of the people I see in the gym on the ergs. Unless they're actually rowers (who always wear lycra so you can tell ) they do all sorts of weird stuff. I once got so distracted by the hilarity of the guy next to me that I stopped and watched the guy for about 5 minutes, he didn't understand the concept of arms away and so every time he was doing the recovery he had to sort of make the handles jump over his knees. I've seen other people do the same but he was flailing all over the place. Kind of reminded me of this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgs8qQkE_FE