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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 May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
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We're back! Double and Trouble once again with the only rowing podcast that matters (apart from all the others).
In this episode, Lewin and I go back to our roots. With no guest, we simply chat about what's been interesting, annoying or inspiring us in the world of rowing (and indeed the world beyond) at this moment in time.
So, in this episode, for your listening delight and delectation we give you our thoughts, such as they are, on subjects as diverse as THAT Guardian article; comms speak; Eric Murray Dancing With The Stars On Ice and SMASHING IT; Tom George and the future of the monarchy; Thames and what punishments British Rowing should impose for their riding roughshod and mobhanded over the British Rowing system (no Henley this year would be a start); the prospect of an online onwater Viking Rowing Challenge League and why it should damned well happen, British Rowing ...
... and the difference between a proverb, an aphorism and an axiom.
Bow pair: a proverb, an aphorism and an axiom walk into a bar one day. The axiom says to the proverb ...
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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A Broken Thoughts where the Northern One goes off, perhaps ill-advisedly, on a recent newpaper article about British Rowing, asking when language became something you used for inaccuracy, infelicity and misrepresentation and what happened to holding your hands up and saying 'Yep. I got it wrong.'
And yes, I do call you Geoff, Greg.
Aren't mistakes annoying?
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Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
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Broken Oars Podcast, and your genial hosts Lewin (Southern One) and Aaron (Northern One) return with what could be our most important and insightful episode yet.
Oh, you always say that, you podding scallywags.
Well, yes, we do.
And we always mean it too.
On this occasion, though, it might just be true.
We're joined on this episde by Dan Armstrong, former junior performance pathway rower, former Durham University rower, current Durham University Coach and Tyne United Head Coach.
Starting with his introduction to the sport in a non-traditional rowing area (Hexham, Northumberland) and discussing how opportunity can be as important as parental or personal inclination in opening a door, we go on to look at how rowing can be identify forming in junior athletes - and the challenges that brings when it coincides with the search for your own adult identity.
Talking openly and honestly about how his own experiences of trying to juggle being a High Performance athlete with family life, the demands of university, and developing into a fully rounded human being all at the same time led to his eventual burnout, Dan goes on to address how his trajectory through the sport and subsequent transition into coaching meshes with the demands and expectations placed on the modern coach.
He outlines the challenges and responsibilities he feels for his athletes and the sport; why specialisation ultimately always beats standardisation and where British Rowing is heading with our Olympic slots under threat.
In tracing Dan's journey from a state-school rowing club in a non-rowing area through to his current role as a coach at one of the country's most prestigious HP programmes, alongside his role in Tyne United's community orientated approach, this episode ties together all of the threads and levels of British Rowing in a fascinatiing, nuanced and expansive deep dive into Broken Oar's Podcast's key themes and interests.
Oh, and we also define where the North begins and ends; establish the limits of sports science and the importance of data; talk about PED use in elite sport; why the stance on Modafinil use was indicative of the rot setting in; and why the Northern One has the finish of a sweep oarsman, no matter how many hours he spends sculling?
Essential listening.
Stern pair? Shush. The grown ups are talking.
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Drew Ginn is a five-time world rowing champion, four-time Olympian, triple Olympic champion (and silver medallist in one of the greatest Men's Coxless Four Finals in history); member of Australia's original Oarsome Foursome, and recipient of the rowing's Thomas Keller Medal; as well as an inductee into Sport Australia's Hall of Fame.
Beyond the medals, the statistics, the awards and the plaudits, Drew is, quite simply, a legend of the sport of rowing, described by triple Olympic champion Andrew Triggs-Hodge as Australia's equivalent of Sir Steve Redgrave and the opponent he lost most sleep over.
This episode of Broken Oars Podcast was a long time in the making (over a year). But we think you'll find, like us, that it was worth the wait. We sat down with an icon and ended up talking to one of the most passionate, knowledgeable, approachable and creative people we've ever met. Drew's desire to learn, share and engage, alongside his curiosity and passion, simply burns through every moment of this episode.
Alexander the Great wept because he had no more worlds to conquer.
Here we lay down our podcast, knowing that our work is done.
Full Crew: From backstops ... listen and learn. You're in the presence of greatness.
Again.
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
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Back once again, the renegade masters!
That's right. After our first ever semi-official hiatus to-date, Broken Oars Podcast returns.
In this episode, the Southern one and the Northern one discuss life, and how it gets everyone in the end; extended projects; bringing down the education system from within; why the Twilight series is an extended and disturbing primer on staying in abusive relationships; the Steinman philosophy of love and why Jed Bartlett isn't the President America deserves (as we all thought when The West Wing was in its pomp), but is actually a really annoying know-it all gobshite.
Sidestepping neatly into a discussion of the golden age of television; why 16 - 26 year olds tend to want explosions and gunplay over dramatic consistency; and whether MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and MMU (Manchester Metropolitan University) are related, and if so, is MMU churning out the next generation of steriod-using hyperviolent psychotics to feed Dana White's empire, we gingerly get to the business of the day.
(And by gingerly, we don't mean that the Southern one again advances his theory that gingers excel in sport because the playground has toughened them up, but gingerly in the sense of cautiously and with caveats abounding ...).
Because this is the episode where we get to grips with the ongoing furore that is the inclusion of Trans individuals in sporting categories.
Broken Oars Podcast has previously discussed Jurgen Grobler's problematic past; doping in sport; athlete welfare; and the historical failures of sporting institutions to provide that. We've seen Bikey Twitter throw poo at us because we had the temerity to say that female athletes should be paid the same as male ones. We have also, let it not be forgotten, seen Matthew Pinsent rowed out of our fantasy eight by Beowulf.
So, we're no strangers to controversy.
However, the tsunami of opinion that engulfed us when we recently came down on the side that Lia Thomas should be allowed, encouraged and supported in competing - because we believe in sport for all - while also saying that we felt it was unfair on the women she was competing against that she was competing against them ... well, that was off-the-charts.
So the same spirit that saw us address Jurgen's past in the GDR when a bunch of trolls suggested that British Rowing's success was juiced saw us sit down to talk through the whys and wherefores of Trans individuals in sport.
And we do it gingerly because we're two middle-class, middle-aged, middlingly-educated men of a certain skin colour and nationality ... and frankly, that even discussing this seems to be an invitation to having your head kicked in the third decade of the twenty-first century is terrifying.
Nevertheless, we talk through the science, ethics, morality and transphobia of trans individuals in sport carefully and with qualifications and caveats proliferating, asking how the current situation has been allowed to evolve into such a badly-handled firestorm, and asking what the way forward is.
We're back!
Did you miss us?
Because we missed you.
(NB: This episode was recorded before the ruling on Emily Bridges had been passed).
Bowside? Pull strokeside around again. They deserve it. Lazy buggers.
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Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
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So, given the back-and-forth that the 'Seriously? The pausing at backstops bollocks is still thing, is it?' post caused, a Broken Thoughts episode about it.
Without giving away the ending, essentially, the idea that we're all doing it because the 'cool kids do it' is significant, and the reality is that if you want to learn to move a boat well, the best thing you can do is get in a boat and move it ...
Lots.
Lewin tends to do the Broken Thoughts stuff, but I thought in my delirious, fevered state, what you needed to hear was a Northumbrian offering opinions way above his pay grade.
So there.
Meatwagon? Are you pausing at the finish because you can't remember what happens next, or have you been watching social media again?
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
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We are back, ladies and gentlemen!
We didn't actually technically take a break over the festive period. Although we were still producing what is widely regarded as the finest rowing podcast on the planet over Christmas and New Year, life adminstration meant that it remained in the vaults until now.
And boy, have we returned with a bang.
A time-served water-rower, via swimming, and an engineer by trade, Alicia R. Clark is one of the new wave of coaches who used the pandemic to explore new ways of coaching and approaching physical and mental fitness. She sat down with us talk through her ethos, exploring how be a rower can become an identity; transitioning out of the sport; finding new passions; and developing a 360 degree view of yourself as an individual before helping foster that mindset in those you coach.
Tracing Alicia's journey through sport and life to her present roles, we talk about the importance of being welcoming and patient with yourself and others; jargon-busting; creating safe spaces for individuals; establishing your own objectives; and shifting the perspective on fitness - stop treating it as medicine and penance, and start recognising it as something vital and integral to every aspect of life.
A great episode, from a coach with a host of online resources.
Stern Four? Really? You really think that's what a catch looks like?
Get some!
Website: https://www.aliciarclark.com
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Indoor Rowing for Women group:
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Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
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As you know, ladies and gentlemen, we at Broken Oars Podcast are no strangers to repetitive hyperbole, over-explanation, or using 100 words where 1 will do.
But on occasion, when we are in the presence of greatness, you know that we just step back and say the name.
So, ladies and gentlemen:
Cath Bishop.
A fitting end to 2021 and a worthy way to enter 2022.
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Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
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A few of you have drawn to our attention that Lewin (posh, southern) and I (illiterate, Northern) have strayed far and wide from our original remit of us getting together occasionally to talk utter tosh about everything and anything up to and including rowing.
Like Monsieur l'Ambassadeur in the Ferrero Rocher ads, you have said 'Oh, Northern Oik, Oh Posh Southern Overlord, with your steady diet of world-class guests giving world-class insights and hitherto untold stories about this sport of ours, you are really spoiling us ...'
So.
It's like that, is it?
Well, as the late, great Freddie Mercury once said 'this is what you wanted, this is what you're going to get' - and who are we not to take the same line as a man with a moustache as luxuriant as his voice (with a proven ability to row on both sides of the euphemistic boat).
Yes.
It is going to be that sort of episode.
What sort of episode, Monsieur l'Ambassadeurs, we hear you cry?
Well, let me put it this way:
Why Lionel Richie is a gentleman; Britney Spears; being a paparazzi; quality tunes; why do coals go to Newcastle and fascists to Sunderland; why all sports psychologists are basically conning their way into high-paying, high profile gigs; shameful admissions about football; Two Gentlemen of Verona; what to do when there's poo in the water; how to deal with heavy metals (not the sort you might think, given our history); the truth behind faking it until you make it; why pretty women walk with gorillas; fine leather goods; Adele, and why she should stop writing about the good man she let go and PERHAPS JUST KEEP ONE OF THEM; Mardy Fish; weight loss; misery; karaoke; misery karaoke; betraying your roots live on tape; Bazalgette; social infrastructure; football; and killing the man behind you with your backsplash.
Yes.
It's that good. Probably the best one we've ever done.
Ever.
Bow four. Prepare to die. Stern four are coming in.
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Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
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Joined by Justin and Stephen of Live 2 Row this is a Broken Oars Indoors epsiode that should be mandatory listening for anyone involved in any form of rowing, indoors, outdoors, or even on lakes with alligators on them.
Southern Pip and Justin and Stephen tick off a hitlist of Broken Oars mantras that have become shibboleths over the life of the podcast: why you shouldn't make people do 2k's on their first day if you want them to stay in the sport; why coaching has to be individual rather than one-size fits all; why the more volume = better rowers approach doesn't work; why ergs should be fun rather than a stroke-by-stroke re-enactment of the Passion of the Christ; and how to coach technical points that result in lasting physical and psychological improvements.
This isn't just about training on the erg. Justin and Stephen are arguing for an inclusive engaged sport that welcomes all through its doors. Focusing on individuals has an impact on all levels, from retention rates at indoor and outdoor clubs to progression to crew boats. By arguing very simply that the emphasis on suffering and rigour and sacrifice turns more off the sport than it engages, their paean for fun, engagement and inclusivity is as passionate as it is grounded and as inspiring as it is common-sense.
A must listen for anyone who wants to up their coaching and training game.
Bowside? Strokeside?
Get on the erg and have some fun!
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Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
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You wait all year for a returning Olympian guest on Broken Oars Podcast and two come along at once ...
Following on from catching up with Jack Beaumont, Broken Oars Podcast is joined (again) by (strawberry-blonde) rowing legend Andrew Triggs-Hodge, three-time Olympic champion and finest stroke of his generation (no, Matthew, you can't argue. You were the generation before).
A late night chat of an episode due to it being recorded late at night and while Hodge was recovering from Covid, we talk about the Centurion challenge, Andy's work with London Youth Rowing, the significant challenges facing British Rowing as a participation and performance sport, the future of club rowing in Britain at a time of declining participation, the madness inherent in letting Jurgen go one year out from an Olympics, and at a time when the governance of the sport is up for grabs and the implementation of the Elite programmes still to be decided ... what next for Britain's most successful Olympic sport?
I've two words for you British Cycling. You can choose from Richard Freeman or Jiffy Bag. Stern four, coming in with Bow four, next stroke ... because we're literally all in this boat together.
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Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
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Broken Oars, Episode 27: Jack Beaumont Returns!
Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages! Broken Oars is back on your airwaves and in your ears just in time for the drive to and from the boathouse with something of a special episode - our first returning guest!
It is true that there are only seven seats of separation in UK rowing - everyone knows everyone else and everyone knows everyone else's 2k score. The cynical might suggest that it was only a matter of time before we ran out of people to talk to and just started back at the beginning again ...
Rowers?
Cynical?
Watashi?
(Not quite the original joke, but you get the gist...).
Not so!
We are hugely proud and pleased that our first returning guest is Jack Beaumont.
Jack first came on the pod back in the old days where we’d discuss the merits of spaniels playing international football, why lightweights need to find a sport that loves them and whether Conan the Barbarian or Matthew Pinsent would make our fantasy eight. He was the first elite athlete and British Olympian to take the plunge, just beating out Hodge, and his bravery was widely commentated on by anyone who knows us ...
But that episode remains a Broken Oars high-water mark with one of this country's finest exponents of the art and craft of sculling - a dedicated club man and a passionate advocate of all that's good in this great sport of ours.
We’ve all passed a lot of water since those days of the first lockdowns (it's old age and cold weather). Broken Oars has attained a certain amount of respectability in that time. However, this pales in comparison to Jack's year.
One of British Rowing's finest and most approachable ambassadors, Jack comes back to talk about Tokyo, those epic races in the quad, a Games like no other and becoming an Olympic medallist and the fallout from British Rowing's perceived 'failure' in 2021.
But it doesn't stop there.
Talking about his experiences at the recent World Coastal Rowing Championships, Jack talks honestly and openly about the future of rowing in Britain, the need for all rowers and clubs to throw open their doors, pay their subs, bring a friend down to the boathouse and change the narrative of performance and pain to one of participation and fun ...
... because otherwise we might not have a sport anymore.
A fantastic chat with a genuinely fantastic human being.
Full Crew - we are going now. And wind, and wind, and wind ...
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Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
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As your genial Broken Oars team continue on their quest to bring the worlds of water and indoor rowing into closer harmony, we bring you a fantastic and illuminating chat with one of the UK's top indoor rowers.
Rod Chinn is, as the title suggests, a man of many records. A legend in the indoor rowing community, we discuss his long journey through sport from a fast lad out on the track competing against the likes of Daley Thompson through his years and time as a rugby player until the fateful day he and his wife, herself a fantastic indoor rower in her own right, spied two rowing machines in the corner of their local gym ...
Die cast, Rod's competitive nature found its natural home in that famous piece of rowing equipment. While the old adage runs true - the Concept 2 is always waiting and always wins - Rod has struck a blow for mankind in systematically chasing down all of the records that have been set on the instrument of torture we all know and love.
This isn't just about indoor rowing, however. Rod's sporting trajectory and approach to training, setting targets, and competing is one that resonated with us as water rowers. From discussing his early days on the track to finding and working with a dedicated coach to maximise what he can achieve in the sport, it's a chat that will be illuminating, insightful and helpful to anyone with the desire to make the best out of themselves.
And it's out in time for the weekend?
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Bow Four? Winter training is coming up. This podcast is your future between now and December. Stern Four? Don't smirk. You're doing it too.
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Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
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Welcome back to BrokenOars Indoors, with Frankii Newbury, CrossFit and Indoor Rowing coach, taking us on a whistle stop tour of her proud Yorkshire roots, her introduction to the sports of CrossFit and Indoor Rowing, and her own fitness and coaching journey through pregnancy and maternity.
Its all about bringing people into the sport, showing them how to do it the right way.... for them, and bringing the fun and the technique at the same time.
To follow further Frankii can be found on Instagtam doing her thing under the https://www.instagram.com/theunrulycoach/ handle and at https://www.instagram.com/dominus_crossfit/
A great chat that reminds everyone that indoor rowing can be a thing for all and everyone. And why Yorkshire is so good at sport.
GET SOME!
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