Rowing Chat

Gearoid Towey on Athlete Retirement

Listen live on Wednesday 21st March 2018 at 9 pm UK time by clicking the YouTube video link. Gearoid Towey – Crossing the Line Sport Three-time Olympic rower and former World Champion, Gearoid Towey has worked in athlete personal development for Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club and the New South Wales Institute of Sport. Since […]

The Rowing Network episode 2

The Rowing Network is a coach education website set up by Community Rowing Inc in conjunction with Rowing Australia led by Matt Lehrer and Ron Batt.  This is the second Episode we have recorded with the Rowing Network – Episode 1 is here. Listen to RowingChat with The Rowing Network Episode 2 on SoundCloud Timestamps […]

Rowing Technique and Aging

Masters rowing is one of the fastest growing parts of the sport.  Yet aging places compromises onto the rowing and sculling stroke. Expert masters rowing coach, Marlene Royle joins Rebecca Caroe on this episode of RowingChat to discuss rowing technique and aging. Listen to RowingChat Technique and Aging on SoundCloud Timestamps to the interview 01:00 […]

Zig Danziger author of Small Puddles

Zig Danziger spent 30 years writing the book about his time on the Rowing team at Yale University. He died last week and his friends and colleagues joined me on this week’s RowingChat in his memory. Carole Claps is his publicist, Alix James is mentioned in the book and rowed at Yale on the womens […]

Bo Hanson of Athlete Assessments

Bo Hanson has three Olympic Medals representing Australia and now leads the Athlete Assessments business tutoring coaches in the techniques that build resilient athletes and “toughness”.  His insights into the psychology tools that build great teams as well as personal experience from rowing are covered in detail during this RowingChat episode. Team Culture and Identity […]

Advanced Rowing by Charlie Simpson and Jim Flood

Charlie Simpson and Jim Flood have authored a new book called Advanced Rowing – it shows in detail the techniques and training programmes of top international and club coaches.  Setting out to “demystify” the secrets of top rowing coaches, the authors succeed in explaining the difference between good and excellent coaches. In the discussion we […]

Penny Chuter

Penny Chuter was the leader responsible for standardising the selection of athletes and formalising the coach education methods used today by British Rowing.  She also worked for FISA (World Rowing) as a coach on the development programme.  Her insights into what makes athletes skilful, boats move fast and how to get the best out of […]

Craftsbury Sculling Center

Going on rowing camp is an experience which many never get – today we are with two expert coaches from the famous Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont USA, Marlene Royle and Troy Howell.  Together they talk us through the opportunities a technique small boats camp can offer for accelerated learning. Listen to RowingChat with Craftsbury […]