I’m a senior coxswain going into my last school season in October. During the winter I’m training with my school crew for a sports exchange and a university club’s school winter program. I’ve been looking into buying a cox box recently but I don’t know if I should get my own. The uni club has good cox boxes but all of my school’s cox boxes are pretty dodgy. Do you think I should get my own cox box? I want to keep coxing when I finish school but I don’t know.
There are definitely pros and cons to investing in your own cox box (which is a whole other topic of conversation…) but for me it comes down to whether or not you’re 10000% sure that you’ll be coxing after you graduate (whether that’s in college, with your country’s national team, with a masters program, etc.). If you’re not sure you will be or aren’t sure you want to then it’s not worth it. It sucks having cox boxes that don’t consistently work but I don’t think that’s necessarily a reason to buy your own, especially if it’s your last season and you’re unsure if you want to continue after this. If the club has any to spare then you could always ask them if they could loan you one while you’re with your other team but unless your current team has plans to get theirs fixed or to buy new ones (something you should suggest if they’re in need of one or the other), you might just have to deal with the dodgy ones for the time being.
