Rowing Illustrated

More from Steve Seiler... first 10 min are intro and ads. It is an hour and more sophisticated than the TED talk. https://www.velonews.com/2019/05/training/fast-talk-podcast-ep-75-high-intensity-training-with-dr-stephen-seiler_494377 There are links on that page to two previous episodes with him. Al...

The thread therad "Joshua Dunkley-Smith goes 5:35.8, breaks Waddell's decade-long world record" in International Rowing got side tracked into a doping discussion. So continuing here: These are some interesting links from Velonews. First two are on the TUE. third is on the problems with WAD...

I don’t think rowers are doping because there is basically zero money in the sport. Be a good natural cyclist. Make a living. Dope, you’re set for life. I am also under the impression (totally anecdotal) from my power lifter friends, that doping in aerobic sports is significantly more technical and...

...the ones that are actual WRs usually come from international rowers who're tested for PEDs, which likely rules out they were used... By that logic no pro cyclists dope because they get tested so much more than rowers. Seriously, it wouldn't be hard to beat the drug tests if one was determined. W...

In my mind, one of the largest issues with handicaps is how do you adjust for physiological losses while trying to negate the lack of performance from lack of training. i.e., if you spend an hour at the pub everyday "out of season", and i spend an hour on the water, your slowness isn't st...

sandor wrote:an interesting data set & analysis in a Row2k article today, looking specifically at head races:
http://www.row2k.com/features/2426/Mast ... ad-Racing/

Skip the row2k article and just read the track_bit links in the first post. (plus a now posted part 3)

Sorry, not answering your question but a question was raised on twitter about the likely crossover between Rowing & long track speed skating- the two sports look to have quite similar athlete profiles. Turns out in the Netherlands there’s a fair amount of speed skaters turned rowers but not too...

They could probably put on a couple of regattas each year (maybe include an international eights dual with Canada) and bring in $50K in local city and convention bureau funding and another $50 in race/vendor fees. There's at least two paid jobs for elite rowers organizing that right there. Easy mon...

Spoken like someone thats never been to a bad area of the E Bay. Go walk around Richmond, West Oakland, East Oakland, Berkeley flats, El Cerrito, etc after dark and compare that with 90% of San Francisco. Rather live there than Cow Hollow? I ride my bike home through the Berkeley flats after work i...

I don't have an opinion on if this is a good idea or not, but I do know something about Oakland. Oakland has expensive housing, but the Bay Area also has high paying jobs. If you are working at Home Depot, and not living with a host family, you will have to live in hell hole in a sketchy neighborhoo...

KitD wrote:4. In the event of a collision, serious injury is far less likely with backstays than without.

4a. In the event of capsizing in cold water, risk of drowning is much greater with backstays which make it much more difficult to get in to the boat.

However you execute an emergency stop, what concerns me most is that it is almost never taught. I row around college crews, I've never see it taught. I've participated in many rowing clinics, many which do teach getting back into a flipped single, that never touch on the subject. Since the emergenc...

....I could see that in a boat like an eight or any sweep boat that having uneven blade angles and, especially, if one rower reverses dramatically more could have adverse effects, as in going for an unplanned swim.... I find it much easier in a sweep boat because one is controlling one blade with t...

How would set the length of Croker sweep oars, M2 shafts with Slick 70 blades, compared with C2 Smoothies2's? Thanks.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have regional qualifiers and then everyone who goes races? (I am assuming they don't do this now--if they do they are accepting way too many rowers). Qualifying for the Nationals would then mean something.