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Since its launch on 24th July 2020, Broken Oars Podcast has grown into the world’s best podcast about rowing, rowers and all things related to the art, practice and magic of moving a boat backwards down a river using an oar. Episode by episode, your genial hosts Dr. Lewin Hynes (the Southern One) and Dr. Aaron Jackson (the Northern One) have been joined for in-depth and revealing conversations with Olympic and world champions, elite coaches, world-leading sports scientists, journalists and commentators, and rowers from all backgrounds and walks of life - creating a treasure trove of insight, information, commentary and perspectives on the greatest sport ever invented. Enjoyed this episode? Buy us a coffee, download a training plan, and support us so we can carry on making Broken Oars Podcast, the best rowing podcast in the world. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank You! Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1 Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/ www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/ Read more Broken Oars: www.thelandingstage.net
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Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
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What can we say about Episode 24 of Broken Oars podcast?
Henley Royal Regatta is in full swing, God is in his launch, and we are back!
Are we talking about the world's most prestigious regatta, Agecroft's attempt to board another crew just off the start and the apparently magnetic booms that are attracting so many crews in the 2021 edition?
Well, we touch on them.
But actually we've returned with an interview we've been sitting on for a little while which we think might be one of the best and most important we've ever done.
This is not down to us, of course, your genial hosts (Posh Southern One, Illiterate Northern One), but the quality of our guest.
Professor Stephen Seiler (https://www.youtube.com/user/sportscientist) is a world-leading academic in the disciplinary fields of sports science, physiology and training. His work has been adopted by coaches worldwide (although, as he points out, not always accurately), and he's an active figure on social media, which he sees as vital for collecting data and disseminating research findings and ideas to those who really need them: coaches, athletes and programmes.
We worked up a series of questions for Professor Seiler, and then proceeded to not ask any of them, as he took us on a fascinating journey from Texas to Norway and through the world of sports and performance.
In a wide-ranging and must-listen episode, he and we discuss, among other things:
- The evolution of sporting models in Australia, Great Britian compared to the Norwegian model:
- Why Norway punches above its weight in international competition.
- That children should be allowed to have fun. Early specialisation does not guarantee success. Generalisation does.
- Why there is no sport in schools in Norway. Or schools competitions.
- How the parent-led club driven model works.
- How multi-disciplinarians achieve more than specialists when it comes time to specialise.
- Serendipity in life.
- Chance and choice, and why both are vital for success.
- His journey into the world of sports science.
- Why gladiators don't always make good crew mates.
- How baselines of fitness work, and how you can apply them to your training to make yourself better, regardless of level.
- Why social media is the next frontier for peer-driven research.
- The future of rowing in a media led market.
- And why the Vikings were nicer than we all thought ...
As a resource for rowers, coaches, clubs, athletes and anyone just interested in the science of performance on a very human level, this conversation with one of the most important and respected voices in the field is pure gold at every stage.
All delivered in an accent that makes Sam Elliott sound uptight.
Not so much a podcast, as one to listen to with a cup of coffee, and then come back to with a notepad.
Outstanding.
(Professor Seiler, not necessarily us).
Stern Four - when I said apply the 80/20 model, what did you think I meant?
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Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
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Broken Oars returns with the first of its excursions into the world of indoor rowing, and boy, have we got a treat for you.
John Steventon is one of its best practitioners and the founder and host of the popular Rowalong Youtube channel.
At a time when rowing in the UK and clubs are suffering a decline in participant numbers, but indoor rowing is booming post-pandemic, John joins us for a chat about his sporting journey, his entry into indoor rowing as a means of fitness and competition, and the natural evolution of the Rowalong channel.
In this episode, we resurrect our 'house-keeping' section (or as we prefer to call it, washing our dirty laundry in public) to issue mea culpas for dropping the factual ball in our Olympics round-up; we celebrate Matthew Pinsent inventing the concept of a multi-disciplinary sport and come up with a name for it; and we ask the pertinent question: is this Broken Oars Genesis / Phil Collins moment as the Posh Southern One finally strikes out in search of a solo career?
After that, John takes over, tracing his trajectory from early life as a squash protege, through cycling that saw him eventually meet his competitive counterpart in the wild and wonderful world of indoor rowing. Talking about his progression from fit and fast to fit, fast and technical in the land of big beasts, and the ethos and ideas behind the fantastic Rowalong channel, it's a wide-ranging and interesting chat for anyone interested in rowing, getting fitter, getting better and being part of a community.
Including:
- Teaching people to row indoors better - Why is it important, and How?
- Who follows Rowalong, and what do they get from it?
- How does indoor rowing interact with Water Rowing Clubs and National governing bodies.
- Is Water Rowing in danger of being eclipsed by Indoor Rowing?
- What would get more people into ergos and rowing?
- What would make the ergo better?
All this and it's not even a weekend yet?
Get some?
Stern Four? This is called a Concept II. You will eat with it, you will sleep with it, you will train on it. Bow Four? You're beyond redemption ...
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
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Where your hosts genially navigate their Sunday morning tendernesses to ask if GB Rowing came home without a win due to the absence of Gingers (of course that's the reason, every boat needs a Ginger) and ask the question that seems to have escaped everyone in the shitstorm: are things really that bad? Is it all down to granddad bed-blockers not letting the young 'uns have a go in Rio? Will it all be okay in Paris?
Recorded in one take without any of our usual editing process in place, and thus with more moments of brain-fart in it than usual, we also ask:
- Can Matthew Pinsent please stop telling crews he knows exactly how they feel after getting fourth place in the Olympics (A great attempt to display sympathy if not empathy, but he doesn't. He won. Every time. Sometimes by quite small margins, but still ... )
- Do we need to solve a problem like James Cracknell? (No, is the short answer. James Cracknell is the watchman who watches the watchmen. And not only were no James Cracknells were harmed in the making of this episode, but we also didn't steal his motorbike).
- Can anyone, anywhere, say anything bad at any time about Helen Glover?
- Is it all the fault of a 70-something year-old man who had frankly already earned his retirement ten times over (aka was this all a long plot by the GDR conceived during the Cold War to bring down British Rowing in the twenty-first century?)
In setting the British Rowing world to rights with a level of nuance, understanding and bluntness plainly absent from better-placed and certainly better paid commentators, we also ask if the Posh Southern One survived being lured by mermaids to his death; the ennervating properties of salt water, and what Rick Savage from Def Leppard can tell Josh Bugaski about four-year projects, success and working with a demanding producer / coach ...
... and is a gold medal always a gold medal? (Pip says yes, Northern one says otherwise. Quel Surprise).
Strokeside? Bowside? This is unedited material with potentially a high level of bollocks being talked. You have been warned!
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
The one where Lewin and Aaron spitball about the pernicious influence of AAS's and other PED's on the issue of ideals of body image.
TL/DL we are against them.
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Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
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Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages!
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends - the Broken Oars Podcast!
Well, it might seem like it's been a while, but that's only because after a year of talking about this wonderful sport of ours, we're all finally allowed back on the water.
Yes, it might only last a few weeks before lockdown number four is imposed - as it surely will be - but we've been somewhat neglecting our duties and responsibilties towards you, dear listeners, while we've enjoyed the delights of shovelling a boat backwards down a river on flat water.
You can be harsh if you like, but we're sure you've been doing the same. Is there honestly anything better?
No. We don't think so either.
However, as the Posh Southern One recovers from the horrors of Teacher-Assisted Marking and the Grumpy Northern One recovers from finding out his Northerness is terminal, we found time to get together and catch up with a chat we had with the one, the only, the inimitable and the incredible Kate O' Sullivan - deputy chair of British Rowing, Teesside alumna, and all-round amazing force-of-nature.
That's right, Ladies and Gentlemen we've gone Full Establishment!
We know that you love Broken Oars Podcast because we say the things that other rowing podcasts don't; and that we can't be bought and we won't be muzzled.
But as always happens with British rebels when they can't kill them (Boudicca, Hereward the Wake, Bagpuss), they make them part of the furniture. Look at Sir Steve - started out an upstart being told he'd never row for his country again, won five Olympic golds and ended up a Knight of the Realm.
Well, they haven't given us a knighthood.
They've given us something better - a chat with the Deputy Chair of British Rowing.
So, sit down, strap in and buckle up!
Quite frankly, we always talk our guests up because, (again quite frankly), they've all been amazing. After chatting with Kate and listening to her trajectory through the sport, however, and her experiences within it and without it, we can honestly say that we've come away feeling that we could be a bit more like Kate.
And it's perfect for those long 100k rows that seem to be so fashionable at the moment.
GET SOME!
Bowside? Strokeside? This is the person we want you to grow up to be. Pay attention!
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Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
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As we always say at these moments, we're back!
Given that's the case, a question might be raised as to why we actually say it. After all, you know it's us, you know we're back because another episode of arguably the world's greatest rowing podcast has just popped into your inbox.* Why do we feel the need to burst back onto the airwaves with all of the energy and brio of an over-sugared toddler?
Well, it's us. This is what we do.
Also, life, life events, work and other things have meant that for the first time in our short but illustrious history have meant that there has been a longer than usual gap between our last episode and this one.
But we're back, and we bring you a fantastic discussion with Dr. Valery Kleshnev.
The founder, owner and driving force behind BioRow, Dr. Kleshnev is an Olympic silver medallist and World Championship bronze medallist. Following on from his elite-level competitive career, he carved out an outstanding reputation as a sports scientist, going on to work with the Australian Institute of Sport and the English Institute of Sport. His work focuses on the hows and whys of performance in order to make rowers and crews better and faster, using scientific analysis and feedback to achieve measurable results.
When British Rowing published the revised selection criteria for athletes on the GB Squad, Dr. Kleshnev was vocal in questioning these revisions.
We sat down with him to discuss the potential ramifications of these changes, resulting in a wide-ranging chat on a variety of topics. These include what these changes mean for selection policy; where the buck stops in British Rowing now; what good coaching actually looks like; how to blend a crew beyond looking at the data sets; the cyclical nature of performance, and whether British Rowing is reaching the end of its imperial phase; how all regimes pull down their monuments; why transparency and accountability are vital for HP programmes; and what boats are actually scientifically better than others, but how 'feel' can't be discounted.
A cracking, thought-provoking episode that proves once again that Broken Oars Podcast goes to the places other podcasts don't, possibly ill-advisedly if we ever want Leander to consider our membership ...
Bowside? Strokeside? Yes, none of us will ever work for British Rowing after this episode ...
(* we always argue that it is)
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Eric Murray.
Bowside? Strokeside? Sit still, you're in the presence of Viking Antipodean Rowing God Greatness.
(And for those who need the chapter headings:
- Why you should always have a beer before doing fine glosswork.
- What drives positive or negative athlete welfare experiences.
- What hard work actually looks like.
- Losing your ego and failing in order to succeed.
- There's no such thing as a paddle, you're racing all the time.
- Promote yourself and your sport, don't wait for your organisation to do it for you.
- Why the Kiwi Pair missed Hodge and Reed when they left for the Four.
- Why you should start preparing for when you're going to leave the programme when you join it, and how.
- Why if it's a choice between another gold medal and family, it's no choice at all.
- How rowing can change to keep the sport vital and alive).
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Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
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Occasionally, when we are in the presence of greatness, Broken Oars Podcast has announced a new episode by simply saying:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
[Insert name here].
And leaving it at that.
Given that our guest this week is Martin Cross, we would be well-justified in doing the same, but we can’t.
Simply put, we know that you all out there have reached peak Pod in these years of pandemic lockdown and isolation. Podcasts have sprouted up like mushrooms after a damp night. They’re literally everywhere now, covering every niche and fighting for your attention. Poodle-faker – the podcast for people who poodle-fake. Are you a competitive pigeon-sexer? We talk with Tobias Grimethorpe, eighteen-times South Barnsley regional champion …
We get it.
You’re tired.
Your ears are tired.
You’re looking forward to restrictions easing so you can get out into the fresh air and sunshine and crack on. You’ve listened to enough podcasts to float a battleship … and, in the words of HG Wells so memorably intoned by Sir Richard of Burton, still they come …
(Dah dah dah … Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, anyone? Just us? Ok …).
The last thing you need is another podcast.
Except if you're a rower you do need to listen to this one.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Martin Cross, chatting about everything from his early days in the sport; his route to international representation; old-school training; the importance of mentors and passing on the torch; competing against known dopers; why being politically-active and taking ownership of your ambitions benefits sportsmen and women; juggling being a full-time athlete with a full-time job; the politicking and shenanigans that went into constructing the LA Coxed Four; where British Rowing was, what it’s grown into and what might happen in the post-Jurgen era.
We at Broken Oars Podcast are no strangers to flippancy, sarcasm and the teasing of some of British Rowing’s sacred cows - but we've always come away from each interview feeling lucky to have had the conversations we’ve had with our guests.
In talking to Martin Cross we met an Olympic champion and a well-known public face and voice of the sport whom we also discovered to be a kind, thoughtful man with a lot to say about rowing past and present and a huge amount still to offer the sport he clearly still loves and is passionate about.
After a week in which Broken Oars Podcast tangled with Bikey Twitter (we said female athletes deserve equal pay … and sweaty blokes in Lycra piled on) and a professional cycling writer called Fergus McKay called us children for suggesting that being concerned about athlete welfare wasn’t guff, it was the best way to welcome in the weekend!
This is one to listen to, enjoy the conversation and stories, and dip back into for the nuggets of wisdom and insight.
Get some!
Bow Pair? Hang on. Some bloke called Steve is sitting in at stroke today …
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Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
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Doubling up after our Christmas break, Broken Oars Podcast returns ahead of biweekly schedule in this bleakest of midwinters to provide you lucky people with high quality podcast entertainment for your delectation and delight.
Now, given that we can provide none of those things if it's just the posh Southern one and the illiterate Northern one discussing, say, the etymology of fitness (you haven't listened to Episode 13? Shame on you - go and download it now. It has spaniels in it. And French tennis players snogging horses. And Robert Strachan), Jezz Moore joins us.
For those in the rowing world yet to run across this incredible man, Jezz is an oarsman and coach who has worked at every level British Rowing has to offer and his insights and ideas offer practical and conceptual insights readily applicable to every rower, coach and club.
These include
- Why clubs are important, why cross-pollination in clubs perpetuates performance and a strong identity that stands them in good stead, and why we should embrace tribalism as rowers.
- The differences between training for elite competition and club competition, and why the buy-in from clubs into elite training methods is counter-productive.
- Why eight athletes will always beat eight rowers, and what that means for current approaches to training.
- Why the effort lever in British Rowing has been maxed out, and why it's time to start looking at technical and mental approaches - and how adopting flexible, cross-pollinated approaches to training will stop the talent drain away from rowing.
- What the future might hold for British Rowing now there is a Jurgen-shaped hole in the landscape.
We at Broken Oars Podcast are no strangers to hyperbole (even if we don't know what it actually means), and we always say that our latest episode is the best we've ever recorded. In this case, however, it might actually be true.
If you don't believe us, we can only put it like this: after talking to Jezz, we both wish we were two decades younger and could row for him. A fascinating, insightful and highly-motivating chat with a wonderful individual.
Bowside? Strokeside? Oh, what Jezz Moore could do with you lot ...
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Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the airwaves, Broken Oars Podcast returns, following a Christmas break in which the Big Lad had his leg off at the knee and the Northern One stayed in bed with Long Covid (the less-fun relative of Long John Silver).
After the vision and the dream that was Episodes 1 through whatever (we lost count. It wasn’t rate-capped), you told us you wanted more interviews with elite athletes like Jack Beaumont (Episode 11) and Andrew Triggs-Hodge (Episode 12) and more engaging guests like all the ones we’ve had (that’s right: all of them).
We listened carefully to what you told us, took it onboard, and then in our usual counter-intuitive fashion, decided to go back to our roots.
That’s right, us, talking about the first things that come into our heads.
Episode 13 is like Episode 1 and 2 but with editing and without the inflammatory references to lightweights, the Democratically Elected People's Republic of China, and each other.
By some miracle of timing, happenstance, luck, and sheer talent, however, we’ve hit on the perfect combination of topics to welcome in 2021.
Join us, if you will, as we discuss the following:
How French Tennis players use the ‘horse on cocaine’ excuse for doping pings, and why it doesn’t work.
Robert Strachan and his recipe for cleaning floors and fish pies.
Who you should trust with your wallet, your whisky and your (wo)man when in Scotland.
Why you never see spaniels representing their countries at the highest level as centre-backs in international football.
New Year’s resolutions: what is fitness, why has it become a thing; and what does it actually mean.
Why Boris Johnson gets a bad press and why it's completely undeserved.
(Ahem).
All in time for 2021?
GET SOME!
Strokeside? Bowside? You're all sacked.
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Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
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Ladies and Gentlemen …
Andrew Triggs Hodge.
OBE.
Bowside? Strokeside? Sit still, behave. You’re in the presence of greatness.
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Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
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Returning for Episode 11 after mistakenly declaring on air that Episode 10 was Episode 12 (hey, we’re rowers. We can only count in stroke rates and splits), Broken Oars Podcast is pleased, proud and excited to welcome its first Olympian: Jack Beaumont!
A current member of the GB National Squad, as well as the Captain of Leander, the world's oldest and most prestigious rowing club, Jack is an Olympian in his own right having made his Olympic bow in the quad at Rio 2016. Building on a sterling (and ongoing) club career with Maidenhead, Jack has progressed to become one of the UK's leading scullers, having won gold and bronze in the 2017 World Cup regattas and bronze at the European Rowing Championships before going on to take silver in the quad at the World Championships in the same year.
He’s also one of the nicest and most forthcoming individuals you could hope to meet in any walk of life, so when Jack agreed to come on (to our eternal surprise and his eternal credit), we settled down for a far-reaching and very enjoyable conversation about life, sport and rowing.
In this episode, which begins with us starting recording midway through a chat about his Olympian father, Peter, (Seoul '88 - Men's Eight), Jack talks about how being introduced to rowing and his early stop-start years where other pursuits were also allowed to play a role were crucial in allowing him to develop his love and feel for the sport at his own pace.
Framing a welcoming and supportive club structure as central to this, Jack outlined how Maidenhead provided a point of focus, release and enjoyment when he was growing up, and how he still returns there when his schedule allows.
Touching on the ways club and world-class start routes towards the GB Squad can respectively shape a rower's journey, Jack went on to discuss his role of Captain of Leander, exploding some of the commonly-held myths about the famed 'Pink Palace' to show it’s a welcoming club on many levels: most rowers would recognise the rowing set-up from their own clubs; and the club has evolved to accomodate many different types of members in a deliberate strategy to represent the diverse communities it is part of.
Jack even suggested that your hosts might get through the door if they applied.
(Although he was noticeably silent on how long we might stay through the door, however …).
In a world where sport and its elite practitioners seem ever-more professional, process-and-goal orientated and serious, we went on to talk about how to retain a sense of fun, enjoyment and sense of personal fulfilment when in engaging in sport.
Discussing these as vital in maintaining a healthy perspective given the demands on elite sportsmen and women, Jack talked about how the fun and excitement of his early years in the sport have remained a key part of his journey to the elite level - and his plans to go on a tour of the UK to tick off all of the regattas and heads he’s always wanted to do and his plan to scull the length of the Thames on his retirement from the squad.
Returning to the importance of British Rowing maintaining good, interconnected club structures and a positive and inclusive culture to ensure the long-term future of the sport from the grassroots to elite levels, the future of rowing as an Olympic sport came up, in which racing on rivers, Olympic bumps, mixed crews and other hobby-horses familiar to regular listeners to Broken Oars Podcast were taken out of the stables and given a run out again.
Surprisingly, Jack agreed with some of these ideas (we and he put it down to his strong roots at Maidenhead and having grown up rowing on rivers). Jack also agreed that more community overlap is needed so that the grassroots and national squads have more contact with each other.
Noting that he hoped that someone at British Rowing was listening to us (chance would be a fine thing!), an early podcast idea (that members of the national squad should have to do a certain amount of provincial heads and regattas each year) was given an airing. Jack said he'd happily turn up at an event and jump in someone else's boat for fun ... as long as displaced crew members then formed a scratch crew so they could still race.
Things got a bit out of control at that point, ending up with three of us agreeing to row together in a quad at Durham Regatta as soon as circumstances and Jack’s schedule allow.
All we need now is another rower to sign on ...
Any takers?
Our conversation with Jack was something of a gear change after our recent episodes with Tristan Mayglothing and Jennifer Sey, but the same key themes emerged. Fun, engagement and awareness are all intrinsic parts of a successful sporting culture and fulfilled sporting life, and Jack is the living embodiment of someone doing what they love in life - and where that can take you.
A wonderful and enlightening conversation ... with a wonderful guest.
And it's out just in time for the weekend!?
GET SOME!
Bowside? Strokeside? Both of you holding ... each other under. Again.
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Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
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Like the little train that could, Broken Oars Podcast returns with its long-awaited, much-heralded Episode 9. Slotting neatly in after Episode 8, it features your genial hosts Lewin and Aaron and Rory Copus.
Great and gimcrack philosophers alike have said that you can judge a man by the quality of their friends. In the world of podcasting, this translates as 'you can judge a podcast by the standard of its guests.' Broken Oars has been blessed in this regard. From Di Binley to Tristan Mayglothing, we have had guests who have been outstanding, rising above the quippage, light badinage and searingly well-researched commentary that would otherwise be our stock-in-trade.
Rory continues our unbroken run of great guests. The result is another fantastic episode.
Coach at Abingdon School, product and shaper of the Oxford Brookes production line of talent, Henley winner and that rarest of things in the rowing world, a coxing icon thanks to THAT performance against Belmont and THAT viral video of THAT performance, Rory sat down with us for a chat about all of those things.
Giving thoughtful and informative insights into the demands and requirements of high-performance programmes and how success sets the bar ever higher, Rory examines the factors that have contributed to Oxford-Brookes success from getting that first win to how geography can inspire rowing approaches, as well as reflecting on his own schoolboy career at Abingdon.
Going on to talk about the role of the coxswain in all of this, Rory offers perspectives that might come as a shock to those of us who have ever thought that a cox is just a small shouty person getting a free ride up at the pointy-end. Emphasising that a good cox knows each of the athletes they work with intimately and coordinates the complexities of each session so that the individual and the crew collective get the best possible performance outcomes as unobtrusively as possible, Rory goes on to talk about how that all came together in THAT iconic performance vs Belmont – and how winning that duel led to winning Henley Royal.
Balancing his honest perspectives on the demands of HP programmes, Rory talks about how those demands translates into the world of schoolboy rowing, illustrating that Abingdon’s programme is ever-mindful of the whole individual rather than just the rower. While achievement is on the menu, so too is the holistic development of Abingdon's students.
In the meantime, we continue our subscription to the equally valid adage that you can tell the quality of a man by the quality of his enemies by winding up the great and the good; AJ suffers a failure of kidney and finds it means a completely different thing in the twenty-first century than it did in the eighteenth; and Lewin fails to tease his partner-in-pod about his epic return to the water at Ebchester.
It was a return to the water …
… and it was epic.
Our constipated British attitude to good manners, not showing away and self-aggrandisement means that we couldn’t possibly say that this is required listening for anyone with an interest in rowing, rowers, boats, water, smacking it down a river with your friends, coaching and performance …
… but it is
… and it’s out in time for the weekend?
Wonderful.
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
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After the wild surmise that was Episode 7, where we made Matthew Pinsent seat-race Conan the Barbarian for a seat in our Fantasy Eight (what? You’ve not listened to it yet? Go and download it now and we’ll say no more about it), Broken Oars Podcast returns!
Here at Broken Oars, we’ve developed an outstanding reputation for breaking vital and important stories at the moment when they’re most needed. Some have wondered if we have inside sources. Some have suggested we use superb and incredibly well-honed journalistic skills to craft carefully investigated and nuanced episodes that discuss everything from doping in rowing to why lightweights should pick another sport.
Others have suggested we’re just lucky, and that what we do is basically chat about stuff.
(Hint. The answer is: we’re just lucky and we chat about stuff).
Episode Eight is no exception.
That's right.
It's us, chatting about stuff, but doing so yet again in an incredibly timely and pertinent way.
As the decades-long questions about athlete welfare in British Olympic Sports continue to be asked, with almost daily revelations about British Gymnastics coming to light and British Cycling continuing to be caught in a horrifying slow-motion car-crash, we are joined by the coach, rower and researcher Tristan Mayglothing.
A scion of the Mayglothing rowing dynasty (yes, we admit that the fantasy language of Episode Seven is lingering a little bit …), Tristan has dedicated his life to creating positive and productive coaching cultures and is now taking that expertise into researching the vital topic of athlete welfare, sporting environments, toxic relationships and expectations in coaching and sport.
In doing so, Tristan is shining a light on the corrosive ethos that has underpinned some British Olympic Sports programmes since the inception of lottery funding (more medals = less oversight); how toxic cultures develop and are perpetuate (like hires like); and how to develop cultures that still deliver medals, but which looks at and builds the whole human rather than their medal-winning capacities.
We at Broken Oars Podcast are no stranger to hyperbolic language. However, this is a must-listen for anyone with a genuine interest in sport, coaching, and creating an inclusive, positive environments that redefine success in broader and more impactful terms while still delivering podium finishes.
Bowside holding … strokeside’s heads under. Until the bubbles stop coming up.
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Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
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Broken Oars Podcast returns!
Breaking a long-standing tradition (that we invented a few weeks ago) and in a radical break from our usual programming style, we haven't followed up Episode Five's stellar interview with Terence Chipchase (What? You haven't listened to it yet? Shame on you! Go and download it now) with an episode of us talking about rowing.
Instead, we've brought you another interview - and yet again, it's an absolute howitzer of one.
Episode 6 features the incredible, the inimitable and the unforgettable Pete Brewer, former Head Coach of Putney School for Girls (and still coaching there), rower, deep thinker and all 'round positive force for good in a world gone mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Some elements remain. It wouldn't be a Broken Oars podcast without some back-and-forth quippery between your hosts. The usual, familiar references to the North are in place to make you feel right at home. Showing our usual appreciation for doing our research, we even manage completely forget which episode we're up to (Hey! It's hard. We're running out of fingers) and then identify your key words for the now-traditional Thames Tradesmen’s Broken Oars Drinking Game.
(This evening, they include: Pete, Putney, Inclusion, Fun, Squirrels and Panthers alongside the usual suspects).
Essentially on this occasion, however, we just shut up and let Pete talk. The reasons for this will become clear when you listen to it. 'Why?' we hear you say.
Well, as the kids on the street would put it, drop the needle on this anywhere and it's all good. This is an episode of Broken Oars podcast you should simply listen to as our guest drops knowledge bombs and truth throughout (apparently these are the terms the kids also use to describe insights and ideas nowadays) left, right and centre. Putting it bluntly, this is something that every rower, coach, parent and child involved in a sporting programme of any description should listen to.
Covering Pete’s introduction to rowing and positioning rowing as a place to foster inclusion and belonging, Pete moves seamlessly into what a rowing club is actually for (hint: it isn’t not what you think) and illustrates why one-size does not fit all in sport.
Going on to explore the reality that fun in sport is as viable and important an outcome (if not more so) than high-performance ambitions, we also learn the difference between panthers and squirrels; why memories matter as much as medals; and what rowing could change to accommodate itself to the people who want to do it rather persisting with a model that forces individuals to accommodate themselves to the sport - and why this is important for the sport's future.
We at Broken Oars are no strangers to inflationary rhetoric and repetitive hyperbole - we do after all live in the UK, which has suffered a ever-escalating explosion of both recently. However, it's reassuring to know that despite our interesting journey in recent months, there are still people in this country who are calm, well-qualified, community-minded and pragmatic; and who don't have to reduce complex issues down to a three-word slogan in order to get their points across.
Not only will you hear the rare sound of us listening (for once), but we'll learn why that the slightly nerdy kid on the chess team or the weedy kid waiting for his growth spurt could be just what you're looking for (and looking for just what rowing at its best provides).
In short, this is the perfect episode to listen to as the UK and rowing moves into whatever it will be post-Covid and into the uncertain times ahead.
And it's out in time for the weekend?
GET SOME!
Bow Four, holding. Stern Four, backing. GO! Not you, Five, you know it muddles you up.
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