“Life isn’t fair.” That’s what most of our mothers told us. It’s especially not fair to individuals with serious impairments. Actually, the sport of rowing seems to be a particularly unfair sport. At last year’s Henley Royal Regatta finals – … Read More »
Marlow Town Regatta is the town’s biggest social event of the year, one of the biggest adaptive rowing competitions in the UK (if not the world), and featured the two biggest adaptive/pararowing clubs in the country – Marlow and Stratford-upon-Avon … Read More »
More and more people are rowing with epilepsy and the adaptive rowing community has been supporting this growth with intensified information to help row safely. British Rowing relatively recently updated its guidance on rowing with epilepsy. A special interest sub-group … Read More »
More regattas are featuring more adaptive events than ever and this past weekend brought a bumper participation at Monmouth’s event. Thanks to roving reporters Stratford’s Mark Dewdney and Llandaff’s Rebekah Knight. “It was great to catch up with some familiar … Read More »
Invictus is the pre-eminent Indoor Rowing team in the UK, but don’t actually get on the water as a matter of course, but Invictus Coach, who is also the Adaptive/Pararowing Coach at Maidenhead Rowing Club and a lead member of … Read More »
photo courtesy of Ben Marsden After years of COVID and high waters, Marlow Spring Regatta finally returned in full spring glory with sunshine and a full day of fine competition. With the Phyllis Court Time Trial providing a solid basis … Read More »
British Rowing has recently published its updated “Row Safe: Safety Advice for Rowers, Clubs and Competitions” by Stephen Worley including a major overhaul of the section on Adaptive Rowing. CAG Chairperson Mark Dewney and others in the community contributed significantly … Read More »
The National Junior InterRegional Regatta is a major fixture on the UK’s national junior competition which has been promoting is adaptive racing for a number of years culminating in the biggest and most competitive adaptive events ever this weekend. British … Read More »
Marlow junior pararower, Adam Hussain, has one leg considerably shorter than the other and it also unable to bend it creating a considerably issue in his erging stability. Despite securing a World Record for his age group as BRIC this … Read More »
Starting from a humble invitation by Phyllis Court to include a couple of adaptive rowers in its traditional spring time trial, this cornerstone event in the adaptive community has grown through Phyllis Court’s generous support to the largest annual adaptive … Read More »