Crossed Blades.com is a new website for rowers and coaches. Some of the material on it will be based on my blog The Rowing Club. In addition, because rowing as a sport requires a certain amount of equipment and kit, …
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- 200 years of Bumps Racing, by Howard Aiken
- Carl Douglas Racing Shells – not traditional boat-building, by Howard Aiken
- Eric Sims and Kanghua Boats – by Howard Aiken
- Eyes In The Boat – an Australian Innovation
- Interview with Mario Woldt, Sports Director at the German Rowing Federation – by Howard Aiken
- Kathleen O’Kelly-Kennedy – A Para-Rower’s Story
- Pocock Racing Shells – a brief history of an American legend, by Howard Aiken
- Preview – Carl Douglas Racing Shells – Not traditional boat-building
- Preview – Interview with Mario Woldt – Sports Director at the German Rowing Federation
- Boats and Fittings
- Coxing
- Hydration / Nutrition
- Membership-based websites
- National Governing Bodies
- Rowing Blogs
- ‘All Eight’ Rowing – throwing away the training wheels.
- “The Furnace” and why rowers should learn to work there.
- A strategy for increasing membership at a community-based rowing club – by Howard Aiken
- Are you a crew before you get out on the water?
- Are you concentrating? (Then we’ll begin). By Howard Aiken
- Balancing the boat
- Can your rowing club plan its way to success?
- Care for the Novice Cox
- Coaching “The Catch” – by Howard Aiken
- Coaching “The Drive” – by Howard Aiken
- Coaching “the Finish” – by Howard Aiken
- Coaching “the Recovery” – by Howard Aiken
- Four rules for winter vacation training
- Getting SMART for the new season
- It’s the Coach’s Fault
- Know your Centre of Rotation.
- Not just ‘With Stroke’ but ‘Like Stroke’
- Oars – They’re not sticks, they’re springs – by Howard Aiken
- Recruiting for the new season
- Regattas and telephones – are you making best use of them?
- Rowing – the way it was
- Strapped in or Strapless? Options for Endurance Ergo Training, by Howard Aiken
- Taking the brakes off – five ways to speed up your boat
- The Coach as Engineer
- The Crab Conundrum
- Rowing Equipment
- Rowing Events
- Rowing Photography
- Rowing Resources / News
- Rowing Sportswear