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Can parents, friends or family members watch regattas?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:08-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

Yes, we encourage anyone interested to come check out a race! We love having UCI supporters travel with the team, and come to our home races. Depending on […]

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What are practices like?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:15-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

Practices will often consist of a warm-up, possibly with box jumps, then rowing on the water (or erging), followed by a cool down or core work. Practices will […]

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What is an erg?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:22-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

An ergometer, or erg for short, is a machine that rowers use to simulate rowing without an actual boat. This gives athletes the ability to train on land, […]

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Are there different positions in rowing? Are there different boats?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:31-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

Yes and yes. Most races that we compete in use what is called sweep rowing. In sweep rowing, each rower has one oar. Therefore there are port and starboard sweep […]

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What if I don’t know how to row?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:38-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

Absolutely no experience is required, the team has trained Olympians from college freshman with no previous rowing experience. Fall quarter week zero will include a few short informational […]

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What is Rowing?

By David Heimerl|2021-06-27T12:37:45-07:00August 27th, 2020|Categories: Rowing at UCI FAQ|

Rowing is an endurance sport in which boats of 1, 2, 4 or 8 rowers compete in timed races, generally 2 to 5 kilometers in length along a […]

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Rowing Quotes

Row your optimum power every stroke, try and increase the optimum. Men as fit as you, when your every day strength is gone, can draw on a mysterious reservoir of power far greater. Then it is you can reach for the stars.
George Pocock, Rowing Coach, Boat Builder
It is not pain, it is just lactic acid.
Duvall Hecht, Olympic Rowing Gold Medalist
From the first stroke all thoughts of the other crew must be blocked out. Your thoughts must be directed to you and your own boat, always positively, never negative.
George Pocock, Rowing Coach, Boat Builder
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill, British Politician
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Rowing a race is an art, not a frantic scramble. It must be rowed with Head Power as well as Muscle Power.
George Pocock, Rowing Coach, Boat Builder
That is the only way champions are made. That is the legacy rowing can leave you. Don't miss it.
George Pocock, Rowing Coach, Boat Builder

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