Great Marlow School’s Aidan Kelly and Mateausz Stan (PR2) Marlow RC keeps pushing the adaptive support forward. This time it is the town’s social event of the year, the Marlow Town Regatta. Building from the milestone Marlow Spring Regatta, Marlow … Read More »
The Rivertime Trust was set up with the mission to introduced disabled children to water activity. It was started by Pat Davis who had been was stymied finding a river boat that would accommodate disabled individuals (accessibility, safety concerns). So … Read More »
What’s wrong with this picture? Or in other words, find the deliberate mistake. Give up? The port side pontoon is affixed “backwards”. Don’t worry if you didn’t spot it. I’ve had many an adaptive boat set off with one of … Read More »
British Rowing has recently published a series of articles on coaching as a part of Coaching Week, 4-10 June. They asked me to pen some thoughts about “Empowering” with coaching drawing on my experience working with the adaptive rowing programme … Read More »
Neil and Finlay Lawson, City of Oxford Only in England do you have the nicest day of the year and still end up cancelling an event because it’s too wet. Marlow Spring Regatta was lining up to be the biggest … Read More »
James Burrows, Norwich RC The first every national-level junior rowing event was featured by the Junior Sculling Regatta at Dorney Lake yesterday. The event was introduced to cover a number of events not able to be included in the annual … Read More »
Most adaptive fixed seats are designed as dual purpose PR1 (with supported back) and PR2 (where the back piece detaches to become a flat seat. Furthermore, the seats are often quite wide to accommodate the broadest range of athletes possible. … Read More »
Sally Hopewell, Marlow, PR1 What started as a generous courtesy has turned into one of the biggest and most important events of the UK adaptive rowing calendar – Phyllis Court Invitation Time Trial. Several years ago, Guildford Adaptive Coach and … Read More »
The sun is shining, the weather and water are warming, daylight savings has added an hour to our evenings, and it is time to emerge from the bowels of the gym and winter land training. The unofficial coda to the … Read More »
British Rowing has announced the dates for the 2018 FISA pararowing classification workshops: 07 May: at Bisham Abbey National Watersports Centre in Marlow (submission deadline: 20 April) 08 September: at Worcester Rowing Club as part of Worcester Regatta (submission deadline: … Read More »