Racing Rowing Video of the Week
By readyallrow
To follow up last week’s VOTW (if you haven’t watched it yet, I’d set aside some time to do that), here’s the race video of the men’s eight final from the Sydney Olympics. By now we all know how it ended up for the Americans but after watching the documentary from last week, it puts the race in a different (slightly more gut wrenching) light.
Racing Rowing Video of the Week
By readyallrow
This is a must-see documentary on the USA men’s team training for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It’s 90 minutes long and well worth the time spent watching it.
Related: Interview with 2004 M8+ gold medalist coxswain Pete Cipollone
In addition to all the Teti-isms and solid life/rowing lessons, there’s a lot of good audio clips of the coxswains from inside the boats so you should be able to get a couple good calls out of this to use in your boat or pass along to your coxswains.
By readyallrow
By readyallrow
I relate to this so hard. Both as a coxswain and a coach, everything she said is pretty much exactly how I’ve felt at each stage of the game over the last thirteen years. If you’re looking for something to do in the hotel on your training trip (which is what I did) or at the boathouse while your team is erging, I’d definitely recommend watching this with the other coxswains on your team.
Related: Katelin Snyder + winter training
Once you’re done with this one, another video you can watch that features Katelin is the one linked above, which is one row2k did on her experiences with winter training over the years. There’s some overlap when it comes to what coxswains could/should do but this one’s only 10 minutes long so it’s worth watching all the way through and picking up some new ideas.
Ergs Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
By readyallrow
I love everything about this video. I love the sounds of the ergs, the immediate pickup on the first stroke of the hard 10, the perfectly in-sync timing, and I most especially love that the last 10 in the video looks just as good as the first 10.
By readyallrow
I haven’t posted any pretty rowing for awhile so here’s a short clip of the USA men’s eight doing some steady state from back in 2012.
College Ergs Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
By readyallrow
It may only be four years old but this video is a classic when it comes to winter training motivation.
By readyallrow
You know that scene in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” when Ryan Reynolds is like “…but why?“. That was pretty much my exact reaction to this video.
By readyallrow
I have to imagine that rowing on the open ocean like this would give you a new appreciation for your regular body of water, regardless of how much traffic, wake, etc. you normally have to deal with…
Ergs Technique Video of the Week
By readyallrow
Hopefully you guys aren’t completely sick of me posting stuff about force curves yet because I came across another video that talks about what different curves mean relative to your individual technique. Even though these were captured on one of the RowPerfects, the same general idea still applies to the Concept2s so it’s worth watching if you find this stuff interesting like I do. The team now has eight of these RP3s so I’ve been trying to brush up on all this stuff so I can familiarize the coxswains with it as we start using them more regularly in the winter.
If you didn’t get a chance to check out the RP3s at HOCR, I posted a picture of the screens (which are actually Acer tablets about the size of a Kindle) on the team’s Instagram that you can see here.
