The Para Rowing Foundation recently concluded its annual Foundation Intensive event in Portugal with support from a number of prominent individuals from the UK taking part: Isaac Clarkson, athlete, Stratford Upon Avon Court Clarkson, observing coach, Stratford Upon Avon Ben … Read More »
“Hearing from two neurodivergent rowers was eye-opening for me and the highlight of my day.” – coach from Nottingham sharing his top takeaway in the final plenary session British Rowing held its annual Coaching Conference this past weekend at the … Read More »
With the Paris Paralympics a fond memory, pararowers around the world will be turning their sights to Los Angeles 2028! And one of the biggest boosts a pararower can get in their international career is the annual Para Rowing Foundation … Read More »
British Rowing posted an article, “Supported adaptive rowing: A popular innovation”, written by yours truly, which provides an overview of this format which enables many rowers to row at all, and some adaptive rowers to row in a more satisfying … Read More »
It’s mid-March and another Marlow training session is cancelled due to risk assessment today (ie. recent weather has made our section of the Thames too fast and too cold, and also the wind if moderate as well as against the … Read More »
Sophie Harris is a veteran pararower who is one of the first I got to know when I first started the Marlow RC programme years ago. She came up from Devon to do some training at Marlow and she stayed … Read More »
Stratford-upon-Avon (probably the UK adaptive squad with the most PR1 athletes) ran a PR1 capsize drill inviting other PR1’s from around the country. Squad Coach and a leader in UK adaptive rowing, Mark Dewdney documented and shared his valuable insights … Read More »
One of the great resources for Adaptive Rowing in the UK is the “Rowability” Facebook group. It is a closes Group so you have to request to join. But when you do, you get access to all sorts of updates … Read More »
Kandianos Emmanouil Sakalidis, BSc, MSc PhD Student at the Department of Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation of Northumbria University recently conducted a study on coaching athletes with learning disabilities. He included a number of UK adaptive coaches and athletes in the … Read More »
As British Rowing prepares for the next Paralympic cycle, A key first step is to invite prospective new pararowers for trial. As a precursor to this process, Paralympic High Performance Coach Nick Baker and Performance Development Coach James Loveday ran … Read More »