Team Brief end of week 4
As training heats up the blisters are showing and i have ruled out a career in hand modelling - I have blisters on blisters… there is still a possibility someone can use me for the before shots though.
We are starting to row longer with fewer breaks and catching fewer crabs. This week we also worked on the timing of the feathering of our blades and when the blades were not squared on time a lovely shower of water would hit the face of Erin and sometimes Kristy. It’s even nicer when you can not reach up and wipe your face because you are trying to keep rowing. It’s all fun though.
We had our second last training in the 8's... All in all it went well except I can still feel the side of the boat and have indentations on my upper legs -(the Cox in the 8's has a very narrow seat to sit in!).
Funny story of the week:
Claudette and Erin were taking Turtle's tinnie down to the water and the tide was out and the ramp slippery. We were turning the tinnie around to dodge the 3 other boats that were just sitting in the water and I slipped over and landed on my backside. The guys putting there boats in all looked around at me as I laughed (mostly to ease my bruised ego) and enquired as to whether I was OK. Claudette and Brett were lucky enough to see the stunt, with Brett making the comment "You will do anything to not row today, won't you". Well it worked as I went in Cox.
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5 Nov 2008
28 Oct 2008
Team Overdue Update
Corporate Rowing - End of Week 3
Tuesday 21/10/08
I knew as soon as I got out of bed that it was going to be an interesting session. Feeling a little under the weather I drove into town and cursed the rain to stay away. Well it did, until we got out on the water! With (from the bow) Carli, Erin, Kristy and Charmaine rowing and Tanya in Cox we ventured out in the water. It was wet and cold but not to bad if you were rowing. We went over all the usual technical items and tried to focus on straight arms, bringing them up to our lower ribs, hand height etc. Just when we thought we were getting it something else would pop up.
It wasn’t Carli 'catching crabs' today but Erin as she kept having lapses in her concentration. As suggested by one of the team mates, we all have to have at least one off day and boy was it mine today. Nevertheless I felt much better after I rowed than before.
Today we introduced the ‘squeezing’ of our legs and transferring power from our legs to the stroke. We started to pick up speed a couple of times and bring it together now we just have to work on going the distance.
We got back into boat ramp at the end of our training and half of us climbed out. Tanya then decided (and I quote this) “I better get out before I fall out”. The next thing we heard was a big splash (and it wasn’t a croc) Tanya fell straight on her backside and was saturated (much to the enjoyment of the blokes watching up on the hill!!). We all stared in shock until Tanya started laughing and we joined in. If this isn’t team bonding I do not know what is.
Thursday 23/10/08
Erin slept through her alarm clock and arrived at 5.55am – just in time to jump in the boat. (Great timing if you ask me I didn’t have to help set up!). It was a cold and windy morning and we jumped in the boat with Kristy in the Bow, than Erin, Charmaine and Tanya in the stern Carli coxed this session. We were being photographed this session and Bronwen joined us later with a switch in the tinnies.
This session we really focused on adding strength and power into our strokes and on our fitness. There were a few ‘crab catching’ moments but all in all we finished the session on a good note.
We even saw where the sleuth lives... the one dishing the dirt on the teams.
Saturday 25/10/08
Firstly (if this isn’t dedication I do not know what is) Happy Birthday to Tanya! She joined us on her special day. It is important we do not miss any sessions in the next couple of weeks as we are getting to the ‘business end’ of training. Lucky we all behaved at the Earlville Launch last night because we would have had a few difficulties concentrating and rowing is all about synchronisation which means concentration and focus.
With sombre expressions on our faces we stared at the back of the head of the person in front, watched our hand heights, straight wrists, feathering blades at the correct time.
Some details for the race day – racing starts at 9am and finishes approximately 11.30am on Saturday the 15th November. Our team colours are red black and white – so don’t forget to wear them!!!
Yours in rowing,
Erin.
Tuesday 21/10/08
I knew as soon as I got out of bed that it was going to be an interesting session. Feeling a little under the weather I drove into town and cursed the rain to stay away. Well it did, until we got out on the water! With (from the bow) Carli, Erin, Kristy and Charmaine rowing and Tanya in Cox we ventured out in the water. It was wet and cold but not to bad if you were rowing. We went over all the usual technical items and tried to focus on straight arms, bringing them up to our lower ribs, hand height etc. Just when we thought we were getting it something else would pop up.
It wasn’t Carli 'catching crabs' today but Erin as she kept having lapses in her concentration. As suggested by one of the team mates, we all have to have at least one off day and boy was it mine today. Nevertheless I felt much better after I rowed than before.
Today we introduced the ‘squeezing’ of our legs and transferring power from our legs to the stroke. We started to pick up speed a couple of times and bring it together now we just have to work on going the distance.
We got back into boat ramp at the end of our training and half of us climbed out. Tanya then decided (and I quote this) “I better get out before I fall out”. The next thing we heard was a big splash (and it wasn’t a croc) Tanya fell straight on her backside and was saturated (much to the enjoyment of the blokes watching up on the hill!!). We all stared in shock until Tanya started laughing and we joined in. If this isn’t team bonding I do not know what is.
Thursday 23/10/08
Erin slept through her alarm clock and arrived at 5.55am – just in time to jump in the boat. (Great timing if you ask me I didn’t have to help set up!). It was a cold and windy morning and we jumped in the boat with Kristy in the Bow, than Erin, Charmaine and Tanya in the stern Carli coxed this session. We were being photographed this session and Bronwen joined us later with a switch in the tinnies.
This session we really focused on adding strength and power into our strokes and on our fitness. There were a few ‘crab catching’ moments but all in all we finished the session on a good note.
We even saw where the sleuth lives... the one dishing the dirt on the teams.
Saturday 25/10/08Firstly (if this isn’t dedication I do not know what is) Happy Birthday to Tanya! She joined us on her special day. It is important we do not miss any sessions in the next couple of weeks as we are getting to the ‘business end’ of training. Lucky we all behaved at the Earlville Launch last night because we would have had a few difficulties concentrating and rowing is all about synchronisation which means concentration and focus.
With sombre expressions on our faces we stared at the back of the head of the person in front, watched our hand heights, straight wrists, feathering blades at the correct time.
Some details for the race day – racing starts at 9am and finishes approximately 11.30am on Saturday the 15th November. Our team colours are red black and white – so don’t forget to wear them!!!
Yours in rowing,
Erin.
TEAM
17 Oct 2008
Rowing Update
Technique, technique, technique
Straight arms, straight wrists, oar height, feathering, square, half slide, body rocking, monkey grip, ‘skimming’, slide, catch, finish this week was all about technique. It has been an interesting week with our focus on technique.
We chased a tinny up the inlet on Thursday, saw a flying manta ray and Carli ‘caught a crab’ (Rowing term for when your oar gets ‘embedded’ in the water).
Erin has to focus on keeping straight arms and Charmaine is so far advanced she needs to take a step back and ‘skim’ with the rest of us to help with timing and balance while we are still learning.
Well I think it is safe to say that the steepest part of the learning curve has passed and it is all coming together.
We took some ‘oarsome’ pictures this week and a select few have been included in this brief for you to all laugh at and enjoy!
In the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on ‘ironing out the creases in our technique’. It should be noted that we wouldn’t be doing so well if it weren’t for our two wonderful coaches Andrew and Bronwen, they are champs!
I will end this on a happy note, with out team song!
Row, row, row the boat merrily down the stream
You do not want to mess with the Libraries team
Row, row, row the boat skilfully down the stream
Books and crooks are not our only theme
Row, row, row the boat hastily down the stream
Puffing, panting, rowing is not as easy as it seems
Row, row, row the boat gracefully down the stream
Messy hair and sun burnt skin, watch us gleam.
Row, row, row the boat gently down the stream
When the boat tips over, listen to us scream
Row, row, row the boat victoriously down the stream
Getting to the finish line is not just a dream
GO TEAM OVERDUE!
NB: I wrote this before we actually ever rowed. Some things remain true but there is definitely so much more that can be said now!
Straight arms, straight wrists, oar height, feathering, square, half slide, body rocking, monkey grip, ‘skimming’, slide, catch, finish this week was all about technique. It has been an interesting week with our focus on technique.
We chased a tinny up the inlet on Thursday, saw a flying manta ray and Carli ‘caught a crab’ (Rowing term for when your oar gets ‘embedded’ in the water).
Erin has to focus on keeping straight arms and Charmaine is so far advanced she needs to take a step back and ‘skim’ with the rest of us to help with timing and balance while we are still learning.
Well I think it is safe to say that the steepest part of the learning curve has passed and it is all coming together.
We took some ‘oarsome’ pictures this week and a select few have been included in this brief for you to all laugh at and enjoy!
In the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on ‘ironing out the creases in our technique’. It should be noted that we wouldn’t be doing so well if it weren’t for our two wonderful coaches Andrew and Bronwen, they are champs!
I will end this on a happy note, with out team song!
Row, row, row the boat merrily down the stream
You do not want to mess with the Libraries team
Row, row, row the boat skilfully down the stream
Books and crooks are not our only theme
Row, row, row the boat hastily down the stream
Puffing, panting, rowing is not as easy as it seems
Row, row, row the boat gracefully down the stream
Messy hair and sun burnt skin, watch us gleam.
Row, row, row the boat gently down the stream
When the boat tips over, listen to us scream
Row, row, row the boat victoriously down the stream
Getting to the finish line is not just a dream
GO TEAM OVERDUE!
NB: I wrote this before we actually ever rowed. Some things remain true but there is definitely so much more that can be said now!
Charmaine and Turtle's Tinny
Cox – Erin, Stern – Tanya, 3 – Charmaine, 2 – Carli and Bow – Kristy, notice the straight arms and synchronisation of the oars.
The team - Carli, Charmaine, Kristy, Erin and Tanya
8 Oct 2008
Rowing Debrief - Training session 1
Team Overdue
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
“What am I getting myself into??”
Terminology:
Back chock – the body posture is relaxed and upright, shoulders and chest open, seated as if you were on a dining room chair, hands level with your solar plexus, legs straight.
Front chock – full slide – lifting your knees to their fullest extend. Maintain an upward body posture; head up, looking ahead at the horizon. Raise your knees and simultaneously stretch your arms forward, with the oars in hand – the sliding seat will move forward automatically.
Sculling – ‘rowing’
Finish – the finish of the stroke
Catch – refers to the split second when your hands are raised to insert the spoon as you accelerate the oar to drive forwards.
Other words were shared with team mates but it is decided these things remain on the water.
Lessons for the day:
- Drop an oar and the boat will tip (lucky we only had to be told this once and it stuck).
- Rid is essential
- The boat ramp is very slippery – we saw one guy fall on his backside. Lesson learnt.
- Oars all need to face the same way: we had a bit of a ‘debacle’ where our 4th rower’s oars were the wrong way and had to be changed in the water.
- Charmaine is a wonderful Cox – with such a relaxing voice and more knowledge than the rest of us on rowing, she managed to calm us down as we were alone out on the water.
New Nicknames
“Powerhouse” – (Erin) because of her height she needs to row in the middle and this is where all the power is supposed to come from.
As it happened…
An early morning start is such a wonderful thing, particularly when you are trying something new. While some of us slept like babies others had a sleepless night but nonetheless we all turned up to give it our all or should I say ‘oar’.
We met out coach Bronwen from the JCU Library and learnt some basic terminology. Bronwen has about 10 years experience under her belt which was reassuring to the team of first timers.
Getting the boat out is long and awkward but hopefully we will get used to it. Once we got it to the water and waited our turn to get in, the sun was already well up and the midges were biting (I have the welts to prove it). Charmaine offered to Cox for this training session and we soon found out just how good she was at it.
We all hopped in Charmaine at the stern, then Kristy, Carli, Erin and Tanya at the bow. We pushed out from the slippery wharf as our coach tried to get the tinnie started.
This is when we discovered that Tanya’s oars were in the wrong way (to her credit - she did not put them in) and they then needed to be changed out on the water. As Tanya did this, the remaining ladies tried their best to keep balance and were successful as we drifted out a little bit – our poor coach still trying to get the tinnie started.
Along came Mr Fisherman wanting to put his boat in and after he did and took off we felt the waves he left behind. ‘Pheww’ we survived, then along came two more boats… by this time we had had enough the wharf was getting to busy and it was getting too late and there was still no sign of our coach in the tinnie. I should mention we were only about 10 metres away from the wharf…
As I was saying it was getting late and children had to be taken to school and libraries had to be opened and this all had to be done after a nice warm shower and caffeine injection. We called out to our coach from the water, we wanted to come back in, by this time she was going to come out in a single skull as one had become available, but we had had enough for the day.
Charmaine calmly and successfully steered and coached us back to the wharf where we jumped out and I kissed the slimy, slippery wharf and vowed never to leave it again. But training will continue Thursday and we will all be there, and leave the wharf at 5.45am on the dot and enjoy the experience!
It may have been a bit stressful for a couple of minutes but there was something about the water and the morning sunlight that was relaxing and the feeling I got when I drove home felt like accomplishment.
Although it wasn’t a milestone I still am proud of myself and team mates because although we may not have rowed like pros we got out there gave it a shot and no one got hurt!!! I am really looking forward to this experience and believe I will learn a bit about myself and co-workers.
Libraries Rock!!!
Look out for my write up on Thursday. Pictures on the way (unfortunately)
Erin
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
“What am I getting myself into??”
Terminology:
Back chock – the body posture is relaxed and upright, shoulders and chest open, seated as if you were on a dining room chair, hands level with your solar plexus, legs straight.
Front chock – full slide – lifting your knees to their fullest extend. Maintain an upward body posture; head up, looking ahead at the horizon. Raise your knees and simultaneously stretch your arms forward, with the oars in hand – the sliding seat will move forward automatically.
Sculling – ‘rowing’
Finish – the finish of the stroke
Catch – refers to the split second when your hands are raised to insert the spoon as you accelerate the oar to drive forwards.
Other words were shared with team mates but it is decided these things remain on the water.
Lessons for the day:
- Drop an oar and the boat will tip (lucky we only had to be told this once and it stuck).
- Rid is essential
- The boat ramp is very slippery – we saw one guy fall on his backside. Lesson learnt.
- Oars all need to face the same way: we had a bit of a ‘debacle’ where our 4th rower’s oars were the wrong way and had to be changed in the water.
- Charmaine is a wonderful Cox – with such a relaxing voice and more knowledge than the rest of us on rowing, she managed to calm us down as we were alone out on the water.
New Nicknames
“Powerhouse” – (Erin) because of her height she needs to row in the middle and this is where all the power is supposed to come from.
As it happened…
An early morning start is such a wonderful thing, particularly when you are trying something new. While some of us slept like babies others had a sleepless night but nonetheless we all turned up to give it our all or should I say ‘oar’.
We met out coach Bronwen from the JCU Library and learnt some basic terminology. Bronwen has about 10 years experience under her belt which was reassuring to the team of first timers.
Getting the boat out is long and awkward but hopefully we will get used to it. Once we got it to the water and waited our turn to get in, the sun was already well up and the midges were biting (I have the welts to prove it). Charmaine offered to Cox for this training session and we soon found out just how good she was at it.
We all hopped in Charmaine at the stern, then Kristy, Carli, Erin and Tanya at the bow. We pushed out from the slippery wharf as our coach tried to get the tinnie started.
This is when we discovered that Tanya’s oars were in the wrong way (to her credit - she did not put them in) and they then needed to be changed out on the water. As Tanya did this, the remaining ladies tried their best to keep balance and were successful as we drifted out a little bit – our poor coach still trying to get the tinnie started.
Along came Mr Fisherman wanting to put his boat in and after he did and took off we felt the waves he left behind. ‘Pheww’ we survived, then along came two more boats… by this time we had had enough the wharf was getting to busy and it was getting too late and there was still no sign of our coach in the tinnie. I should mention we were only about 10 metres away from the wharf…
As I was saying it was getting late and children had to be taken to school and libraries had to be opened and this all had to be done after a nice warm shower and caffeine injection. We called out to our coach from the water, we wanted to come back in, by this time she was going to come out in a single skull as one had become available, but we had had enough for the day.
Charmaine calmly and successfully steered and coached us back to the wharf where we jumped out and I kissed the slimy, slippery wharf and vowed never to leave it again. But training will continue Thursday and we will all be there, and leave the wharf at 5.45am on the dot and enjoy the experience!
It may have been a bit stressful for a couple of minutes but there was something about the water and the morning sunlight that was relaxing and the feeling I got when I drove home felt like accomplishment.
Although it wasn’t a milestone I still am proud of myself and team mates because although we may not have rowed like pros we got out there gave it a shot and no one got hurt!!! I am really looking forward to this experience and believe I will learn a bit about myself and co-workers.
Libraries Rock!!!
Look out for my write up on Thursday. Pictures on the way (unfortunately)
Erin
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