Rowing Chat

Michael Morgan

Michael rowed in the Olympic 1868 Australian VIII (silver medal) as well as the 72 crew. He then coached the 1976 crew. He also has had a long and successful career as a schoolboy coach in NSW Australia. Timestamps 01:30 Background in rowing 1963 St Ignatius’ centenary rowing 3.30 Olympic crews – how I got […]

Ludum

Rebecca interviews Adrian Cassidy, CEO Founder & Olympic Rowing Coach from Ludum Timestamps to the show 01:00 Adrian’s background in rowing – former head coach Rowing Ireland, University of London and now CEO of Ludum 03:30 Ludum – Freedom to Coach What Ludum is – an online platform to collect data and comms to manage […]

Australia Womens Rowing Centenary

This year is 100 years of women rowing for Australia and my guest Margot Foster is one of their alumni. She explains how Rowing Australia is marking this historic birthday. Timestamps to the Episode 03:00 Background and history in Rowing 05:00 100 Years of Women rowing for Australia and the Interstate Rowing Regatta 09:00 The […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kim Brennan

Today we welcomed Kim Brennan to RowingChat for an in-depth dive into her personal training philosophy and motivations. The RowingChat recording is on Soundcloud, YouTube and iTunes – please leave us a rating and share this link with your rowing friends. Timestamps: 01.00 Kim introduces herself and her background in rowing and sport 05:00 On […]

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 – […]

Drew Ginn

Drew Ginn, Olympic rowing champion and now the National Head Coach of the National Rowing Centre of Excellence in Australia, comes to us for RowingChat. Drew has unparalleled expertise in the sport (especially from an athlete’s perspective). He took home gold at Olympics of 1996, 2004 and 2008 and silver in 2012. For the Rowing […]