Where Are They Now?
By Andy Anderson, illustration by John Hooten
How many people remember The Oarsman magazine, and how each issue it featured a cartoon? As good cartoons do, they captured something about the sport that was both funny and illuminating; they held a mi...
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Rowing Canada Aviron Annual Awards
Source: Jackie Skender/Rowing Canada Aviron
Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) recently recognized the best in rowing at its annual awards dinner, held this past weekend in Toronto, ON.
This year's event at Ontario Place drew the largest crowd ev...
Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) recently recognized the best in rowing at its annual awards dinner, held this past weekend in Toronto, ON.
This year's event at Ontario Place drew the largest crowd ev...
Early Registration for 27th MidAtlantic Erg Sprints Now Underway
Source: Press Release
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Early registration is now underway for the 2012 MidAtlantic Erg Sprints, which will be held on Saturday, February 4th in the Gerry Bertier Gymnasium at T.C. Williams High School in Alexa...
Resolute Racing Shells Welcomes Mark Carroll To Our Account Executive Team.
Source: Press Release
RESOLUTE Racing Shells is proud to announce the addition of Mark Carroll to the RESOLUTE sales team. He brings over 18 years of experience as a competitive rower and coach to RESOLUTE. Mark has been involved i...
Gouging at the Games
By Topher Bordeau
CoSport is the name of the consumer hospitality package company appointed by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the only authorized ticket reseller and package provide...
Gear That Cross-Trains
By Topher Bordeau
The best tools are the simplest tools—easy to use, hard to break, almost impossible to mess up. Between SpeedCoaches, cox boxes, pitch meters, and heart rate monitors, rowing has its share of complex tools. B...
Profile: Drew Ginn
By Topher Bordeau, Photography by
Peter Spurrier
Australian Olympic champion Drew Ginn is well known as one of our sport’s legends. But he’s less known for something every bit as impressive as his rowing s...
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Point of Entry
By Marlene Royle, Photography by
Peter Spurrier
The placement of the blade, which links the recovery to the drive, is a critical component of the rowing stroke. Getting it right, as this sampling of classic rowing literature suggests, is key ...
Better, Faster, Stronger … Safer?
By Rose Giordano, Ph.D.
Most athletes look for ways to get faster and stronger in the lead up to race day. From regatta weigh-ins to powering through the final sprint over the line, the pressure for rowers to find an edge over their competit...
All Together Now
By Rich Davis, Photography by Devin Swett
What is your approach for getting crews comfortable at higher stroke rates?
Crews struggle at race pace for a variety of reasons: They’re not strong enough to hold the rate; they haven’t se...
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Fits and Starts
By Volker Nolte, Photography by
Peter Spurrier
Carl Meyer, a member of New Zealand’s 2007 world champion men’s four, did it. Bryan Volpenhein, stroke of the U.S. Olympic gold medal eight in Athens, did it several times. So did leg...
A Coach's Education
By Andy Anderson
“When’s Gordon coming?” For the past week that’s been the buzz here at Nashaquitsa Rowing Club on Martha’s Vineyard. Gordon is Gordon Hamilton, head coach at Florida Rowing Center and a coach at...
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Rob Waddell
By Bryan
Kitch
, Photography by
Peter
Spurrier
Rob Waddell is, without question, one of the most talented single scullers of all time. In the lead-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the towering New Zealander set a new 2,000-meter world rec...
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Crossing the Line: Cycling and Rowing
