Matt is a four time Olympian rower with a bronze, silver and gold medal to his name. He’s won international titles in every Olympic boat class – both sculling and sweep in his 15 year career. We discuss life after rowing, what it’s like having Jurgen Grobler as your coach and why rowing is addictive. Listen […]
Nikos is the leading world Coastal Rowing coach and former flat-water rowing Olympian. He works with his twin brother, Apostolis to promote all types of rowing in Greece. His move from 2k rowing into Coastal and Beach Sprint Rowing is an opportunity he thinks other athletes could enjoy. In this interview we run through the different […]
Streamed live on April 2nd, 2017 Tim has set up the first online tutorial service to train rowing coxswains and I was delighted to be chatting with him on RowingChat. His experience as a regatta referee and a coxswain coach has showcased the need for improved instruction. In this interview we run through a range […]
Marlene Royle is a welcome return guest on RowingChat today with a talk focused on how to transition out of winter training and back onto the water for the summer. Timestamps for Marlene Royle RowingChat 01:00 Introductions and personal background in rowing 05:00 Transitioning off the erg. Ergometer training is a linear world. Water rowing is […]
Streamed live on March 5th, 2017 Sander is a leader in the field of rowing analytics and has created the website Rowsandall.com to enable others to upload and review rowing data in order to improve their training outcomes. Timestamps for topics in the podcast. 0:01 introductions and background in rowing and data analysis 0:02 What got you […]
Streamed live on Feb 13, 2017 Phil is an Olympian and former international sweep rower who has successfully switched into coaching. He has been 7 years at Kingston Grammar School coaching boys and girls. Timestamps for topics in the podcast. 0:01 introductions and background in rowing 0:02 Transitioning from being an athlete to being a […]
RowingChat today was with Guin Batten a pioneer leading new racing formats for beach rowing, coastal rowing and an energetic ambassador for the sport. She has taken on many new challenges such as rowing in the Maldives, winning the Coastal Rowing world championships and inventing beach rowing for the World Beach Games since winning a silver […]
RowingChat today was with Sara Hendershot-Lombardi, a pioneer introducing High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) to rowing coaching. She discovered this alternative method of training after serious personal injury, rehabilitation and recovery as she challenged for a place in the US Rowing team for Rio Olympics. Sara runs Rowfficient, the training company whose Project UP is […]
We had an awesome RowingChat today about the history of international British Women’s rowing. Jo Toch, Pauline Bird, Kate Grose all rowed for Great Britain and Helena Smalman-Smith is a rowing historian of the period. We have collated timestamps for the key points we covered during the interview. Below is a link to watch the video […]
We had an awesome RowingChat today with Steve Gladstone and have collated timestamps for the key points we covered during the interview. Below is a link to watch the video on YouTube or Listen on SoundCloud. Please subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and, as ever, tell your friends about RowingChat. 01:00 How to up-skill […]
