Two of our coaches currently volunteering in South Africa for Lattitude the Global volunteer charity have been spotted by a local paper! Our thoughts are with them this Christmas as they spend their first Christmas away from family and friends....
Lewis Dixon our community coach in charge of organising the borough competitions across London wrote this round up of the week The first indoor rowing borough competitions of the season got off to a cracking start last week, with schools in Hammersmith and Fulham and Bexley competing. A new school to our SHaC programme, Hurlingham [...]...
This Sunday we will be holding a coxing masterclass from 10:00am – 11:30am, to be conducted by the club’s experienced and very successful cox Bec Lionnet. The masterclass is specifically aimed at those with little or no coxing experience (no matter how much rowing experience!) and will cover the following areas: General call in the […] ...
The annual Rutherglen regatta is coming up on the weekend of January 11 & 12. To finalise accommodation arrangements we will need to have a definite idea of numbers attending by 12:00 midday this Friday. Anyone who is intending on coming must complete the survey at the link set out below. It will take you two minutes. […] ...
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Two reports have come in for Row 4 Results schools taster sessions…. Battersea Park School in Wandsworth: 119 pupils in total took part in the day long taster session. The atmosphere throughout the day was electric which led to some really exciting races. This school had to pull out last year from the competiton so [...]...
LYR spent 2 days at Newham Leisure Centre for Motivate East. Motivate East is an inclusive sports participation project for disabled people living in the Host Boroughs inspired by the Paralympic Games. On the first day, it was the 16 group who attended the festival. They came from disability groups from Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, [...]...
Louis Wyras from Mossbourne Rowing Academy in Hackney has been invited to Caversham for a Junior Mens Sculling Training Day by Richard Boulton, Lead Coach Juniors GB Rowing Team on December 9th. Only 12 boys in the country have been chosen for this, the first of a series of dates where they and their coaches [...]...
This report has been written by Maurice Coughlan, our Head Coach at Globe RC. Four of our Head Coaches were invited to spend a day following Steve Trapmore, Head Coach of CUBC as he took his crew through their paces on a cold November day in Cambridge. We arrived at 6:15am and were met by [...]...
Skills London 2013 is the biggest jobs and careers event of the year with over 30,000 visitors and 175 exhibitors taking part. Young people ranging in ages from 15 -25 came in their thousands to Excel in Newham from as far as Canvey Island to as near as Newham! The organisations offering their services on [...]...
Hi Guys! I’m sad as I’m writing this because rowing is coming to an end for the year! I was meant to be going on a trip to a race on the northern cape sponsored by rock the boat this weekend but unfortunately it’s been cancelled. There was a storm over the weekend [...]...
On Friday night, the great and the good as well as some of our coaches all found themselves at The Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green for London Youth Rowing’s first charity comedy night. Over the course of the evening we were treated to an expert compare who got the audience primed for some class [...]...
Phoenix High School in Hammersmith were treated to a fantastic day of indoor rowing racing with LYR. In the build up to the Row 4 Results tournament every school signed up to the project can book a day with our dedicated Row 4 Results coach who arrives in their school with 5 indoor rowing [...]...
Exciting news – the tender for the boathouse redevelopment was issued on Friday 15 November and closes on 12 December. All going well, we will select a builder and sign contracts before Christmas. This means building works will start early in the New Year. There will be no interruption to the rowing program until April […] ...
A big congratulations to everyone involved in another great day at the club on Sunday 10th November. It gave me great pleasure to officially name the two newest boats added to our fleet. We welcomed Dennis Beck, Emma Catford, Martin Foster and Nicole Stupka to officially name the new mid weight coxed four and quad […] ...
The head racing season reaches a pinnacle at the end of this month, with The Melbourne Head on Saturday 23 November, and Head of the Yarra on Saturday 30 November. The sprint season will then be upon us! So it’s perhaps timely that members keep in mind the way regatta crews are selected. Here is […] ...
Hi RRC members, I will be running a weekly sculling session for RRC members on Saturday mornings at 1030 am and all are welcome to attend. The sessions will be technique focussed and probably no more than 1.5 laps. Each week we will focus on one specific part of the stroke cycle with drills […] ...
Aiming to becoming a rowing recruit: The Musts 1. Being part of a junior rowing program is not a must. Joe Sterner is 16 years old. He discovered rowing and loves it. He visited the Harvard boathouse and was amazed by its beauty, history, and what it represents. His motivation is unstoppable. He needed a […] The post Elite coaching for college recruiting appeared first on Rowing Technique...
On Saturday, Richmond rowers headed to Nagambie to compete in the 8th Annual, Head of the Goulburn, Tahbilk ‘Bridge to the Vines’. A favourite amongst many, the 7.2km course commenced at Chinaman’s Bridge and finished at Tahbilk Winery. The women’s D8 crews were first off the mark. With the hint of a glass of […] ...
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