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Flipping a Four: What to Do When the Unexpected Happens

Video via rowingkid90. Boat and rowers are unrelated to the situation described below. Video is for reference only. Note also that these kids lost their balance... Read More...

45 Drills for Fine-Tuning Technique

As a coach, you most likely have an arsenal of technique drills that you use over and over throughout the season to help fine tune your crew's skills. Where did... Read More...

Got $50? Build Your Own Erg

If you didn't receive a $900 Concept2 Model D erg for the holidays this year and are super handy, consider a trip to the hardware store. Amateur boat builder Ti... Read More...

Northampton Community Rowing launches for a morning practice. Photo: Linda Hannum

Find Masters Rowing Clubs Near You

Looking for rowing opportunities where you live? From learn to row, to novice, recreational, competitive, and developmental clubs. Sweep and sculling for men an... Read More...

Can We Sweep Like Scullers Do?

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...

Fall rowing for novice crews can be daunting. Make sure your rowers and coxswains make safe and smart decisions on the water.

4 Lessons from the 2014 Snowflake Regatta Debacle

America loves to watch people suffer. Boxing matches. Home videos of Dads getting whacked in the nuts by their kids' whiffleball bats. Craning our necks to see... Read More...

What Not to Do When Weather Turns Foul

When I got to the boathouse last night it seemed like any other hot, humid summer day in the nation's capital. I hadn't looked at the forecast and was optimisti... Read More...

Novice Mixed 8 at the 2013 Capital Sprints in Washington, D.C.

5 Insights for Adult Novice Rowers

BY AC CHACON Why did you decide to learn to row and stick with rowing through a novice season? To get in shape? To become a competitive rower? Did you want t... Read More...

Novice coxswain Crystal Hudson launches with her novice W8 at the 2013 Head of the Anacostia.

Coxing. For the First Time. Ever.

Standing a mere 5’ tall (or short, depending on your perspective), I am apparently the ideal size to be a coxswain. Considering I can’t reach the top shelf of ... Read More...