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 […]