Indoor rowing has seen an upsurge with the pandemic which both confined people from boating for an extended period and also spurred remote online competition formats to be developed and popularised. Indoor Rowing has its own set of adaptive “IR” … Read More »
Last January, Steven Dowd organised a monumental world-wide fund-raising rowing challenge to get people of all abilities rowing together and raising funds to support disabled sport – the EnduRow Challenge. It was such a success, he decided to repeat the … Read More »
While live competition is back, many (if not all) of the Indoor Rowing competitions, including this past weekend’s top event – the British Rowing Indoor Championships (BRIC), have opted to remain virtual for the time being. A silver lining to … Read More »
The LoveRowing Foundation announced its first slate of grant recipients funding initiatives to support inclusion initiatives including 3 rowing clubs building their Adaptive Programme. Congratulations to the adaptive programmes building out more capability with the support of this fine charity: … Read More »
One of the pandemic silver linings has been the surge of remote work and play over digital video conferencing, and this shift helps adaptive rowing. One of the long standing challenges of adaptive rowing was securing a critical mass of … Read More »
For a behind the scenes exploration of not just life at the Paralympics, but also the odyssey to get there, check out Row360’s cover profile on the UK’s own (Row360 is the premier magazine in the international rowing world) Kingsley … 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 »
Arm-impaired rowers are going to have to sweep in some fashion…either in a supported “Scull Pair” (rowing with a single scull blade in one hand), or in a conventional sweep. But for the latter, one really needs a way to … Read More »
All the Paralympians are heroes, but Kingsley Ijomah is a special kind of hero to the UK adaptive community. His achievement has been accomplished with, through and supported by club rowing. We have all followed his odyssey with enthusiasm. His … Read More »
The adaptive regatta (ie. event with an array of adaptive racing) season has culminated a bit later this year with the re-surgent Stratford-upon-Avon Junior Regatta this past weekend (while it is called “Junior” and was originally limited to juniors, they … Read More »