Looking forward to the exciting Paralympic year of 2020 started with a look back on this past year and beyond with a retrospective piece featuring yours truly in January issue of Rowing & Regatta magazine. The new regular section highlights … Read More »
Christmas has come early for our festive fitness fellows Marlow RC and Royal Dolphins who have become the beneficiaries of some of the most advanced erg fixed seats in the world. First used at Stoke Mandeville Spinal Clinic (where I … Read More »
Marlow RC welcomed the Royal Dolphins for a Yuletide joint squad workout featuring a number of “adaptive challenges” that is becoming a holiday tradition at Marlow. The festive session underscored the fun and other benefits to diversify your workout with … Read More »
The post “Myths of Adaptive Rowing” was quite extensive, but that doesn’t mean that there are some scary aspects to the sport that are actually quite true and worthy of consideration. Water Safety Imperative: Safety is always a pre-eminent consideration … Read More »
Indoor rowing is often an athlete’s first introduction to the fundamentals of the sport of rowing. I’ve always been struck that despite so few junior adaptive rowers in the sport, the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships attract nearly a 100 … Read More »
PR1 competitors Chris Rix (sudbury) and Benjamin Pritchard (Team GB) The British Indoor Rowing Championships is perhaps the annual pinnacle of the UK rowing community coming together. It convenes elite rowers with novice ones, junior rowers with Vet Gs, massive … Read More »
GB Paralympic High Performance Coach Nick Baker recently presented a number of sessions at the “2019 World Rowing Coaches Conference” near Heathrow 20-21 November to help people introducing adaptive programmes. He was supported by Sally Hopewell of Marlow RC in … Read More »
The LoveRowing charity/foundation launched to a packed Cutty Sark exhibition hall filled with some of British rowing’s biggest names and supporters last week. Its mission: “Love Rowing is British Rowing’s new charitable foundation. Our mission is to create accessible and … Read More »
Marlow RC adaptive squad which includes a number of ‘transitional’ rowers The Adaptive rowing community is the most inclusive segment of the rowing sport and the concept of a “transitional” rower might extend that even further. What is a “Transitional” … Read More »
Surfing through a range of online adaptive resources, I happened upon this clever fitting by Adapt2Row that goes on to any Concept 2E model to directly attach a wheelchair to a rowing machine. This simple adaptation reduces the requirement to … Read More »