Tip of the Blade by Marlene Royle

The expert sculling coach details her approach to the sport of rowing and how to assist your own rowing journey.

• Chapter 1 – basic stuff including the Basic Truth on Posture, drills for learning and perfecting skill
• Chapter 2 – Keeping on and how to get good habits and get motivated, holiday training strategies
• Chapter 3 – In Practice for how to find and improve technique, blade depth, steering a boat, rowing slow
• Chapter 4 – Drills, Drills details of drills for pressure, general performance, strength drills and racing starts
• Chapter 5 – Doing It, how to focus your training, get tougher, racing and plan your year
• Chapter 6 – Race pace and how to plan your race, the choreography of a rowing race, head racing
• Chapter 7 – Rigging Up your single in detail and how to detect problems in your rigging
• Chapter 8 – The Erg and drills for adding speed and getting a good score
• Chapter 9 – Coach Boat how to develop as a coach including video analysis

This is a book to dip into when looking for specific problem resolutions and also to read a whole chapter for a deep dive into one part of technique or racing.  It totals 334 pages and is downloadable in pdf format for you to read.

Marlene Royle has been a guest on RowingChat podcast.