Marc Mandel, the head coach of Gonzaga College High School (the D.C. schoolboy varsity eight that performed so well at the 2015 Royal Henley Regatta) must get... Read More...
I took the month of January from the erg and from fitness training to sail to Cuba for the fourth time. Surprisingly, sailing on a small (40 feet) boat such as ... Read More...
Let’s be straight – there’s a lot to hate about the erg.
Perhaps the worst thing about the machine is that the better you get and the harder you work, the hard... Read More...
Breath, the air we gulp and strain at, is the champagne, the elixir of our sport.
It is the fuel of our bodies, it flows into our muscles. It enables every mov... Read More...
Hmmmm. I was planning another tiresome polemic on the details of technique to follow my first column ("It All Starts with the Hands") about the proper position ... Read More...
I wish that some coach, somewhere along the line in my 50 years plus, had started me with the hands.
But no one did, nor do they now.
It's a fact that most be... Read More...
