Rowing Chat

John Faulkner

Listen again to the RowingChat recording. John introduces a new rowing seat pad designed to help those with sciatica, sore bottoms and problems with numb legs during long ergo sessions.

Novice rowers

Focus on How to Teach People how to learn to row faster – speeding up the process of learning. Teach them to have fun as soon as possible. Teach ratio on the erg by having athletes yell out ‘pineppple” on the recovery phase and ‘chunks’ on the power phase. Community Rowing uses 3 measures – […]

Gordon Hamilton

Gordon Hamilton is the author of the well received ‘Sculling in a Nutshell: A polemic guide to making your boat go faster’. Gordon has more than three decades of coaching rowing at high school, university, national, and international levels as well as his experience with coaching masters. His university coaching has included MIT Head Men’s […]

Jim Dietz

This month we’re conducting a 1 hour interview with world renowned rowing coach – Jim Dietz. Jim Dietz is a world renowned USA rowing coach and adviser with heavy Olympic and World Championships experiences as both a rower and a coach. His incredible life in rowing began with him sculling  in high school, soon taking away the first […]

Mahé Drysdale

This last RowingChat podcast of the year is going out with a bang. We’re interviewing one of the biggest names in New Zealand rowing and an athlete who has raised the standard of the competitive sculling world…   Mahé Drysdale   Mahé has 10 World Gold Medals under his belt for his rowing career. A New Zealand sculler […]

Matt Rostron

London Youth Rowing is a charity dedicated to rowing for all, especially the young and the less fortunate. Matt Rostron, CEO of London Youth Rowing, is joining us on RowingChat this month to discuss how they achieve their goals and grow the London rowing community. They have achieved success in some ambitious rowing projects. They’ve […]

Giuseppe de Capua, Sculling Coach

The world’s leading sculling coach, Giuseppe (Beppe) de Capua has a track record like you wouldn’t believe – from coaching Italy Olympic Quad scullers to Gold in 1988 and Bronze in 1992, to eight medals in the 19 events (four of them, gold) for the World Rowing Champs in 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfRRmSlK-Kc

Wade Hall-Craggs

This month of August we’re interviewing renowned rowing coach Wade Hall-Craggs – arguably the most successful all round University rowing coach in the UK today – from Durham University. Wade is probably the most successful all-round University rowing coach in the UK today.  He develops mens and womens crews to win at Henley Womens, Henley Royal, BUCS and National Championship […]