Comments on: Know your Audience http://www.9thseat.com/advanced-coxswain/know-your-audience/ the brainchild of Mary Whipple, Olympic gold medalist coxswain of the US women's eight. Here you'll find informative blog posts, tips and tricks, and opportunities to learn from the best! Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Mary Whipple http://www.9thseat.com/advanced-coxswain/know-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Mary Whipple Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:49:59 +0000 http://www.9thseat.com/?p=73#comment-465 I really like this comment, thanks for sharing this Matt. You are absolutely right seeing the positive side of things. If something different needs to happen during a practice or race coxswains need to make a call for change. Especially for long and draining practices....you have to be there for your teammates by not giving up. You need to provide the opportunity for all the rowers to buy into the change. Great coxswains then follow up the call by identifying one positive change, hopefully the speed of the boat getting faster, so that your rowers will now believe in your calls and execute them together. I really like this comment, thanks for sharing this Matt. You are absolutely right seeing the positive side of things. If something different needs to happen during a practice or race coxswains need to make a call for change. Especially for long and draining practices….you have to be there for your teammates by not giving up. You need to provide the opportunity for all the rowers to buy into the change. Great coxswains then follow up the call by identifying one positive change, hopefully the speed of the boat getting faster, so that your rowers will now believe in your calls and execute them together.

]]> By: Matt http://www.9thseat.com/advanced-coxswain/know-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Matt Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:37:22 +0000 http://www.9thseat.com/?p=73#comment-450 As a follow-up to Kane's response I would say that you could also go in a different direction. If you put that goal of two seats out there and they don't get those seats, why not look at their rowing and choose one technical point to focus on as well as their effort. For example, you could look at their catches and see that they are missing some water at the front end and give a call for getting blades back and down for a quicker lock with no missed water. They should be able to improve that after a strong call, get excited about that technical improvement and hopefully it makes the boat move faster, but none the less, it's something to be positive about. As a follow-up to Kane’s response I would say that you could also go in a different direction. If you put that goal of two seats out there and they don’t get those seats, why not look at their rowing and choose one technical point to focus on as well as their effort. For example, you could look at their catches and see that they are missing some water at the front end and give a call for getting blades back and down for a quicker lock with no missed water. They should be able to improve that after a strong call, get excited about that technical improvement and hopefully it makes the boat move faster, but none the less, it’s something to be positive about.

]]> By: Kane http://www.9thseat.com/advanced-coxswain/know-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Kane Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:54:17 +0000 http://www.9thseat.com/?p=73#comment-288 This is my four year coxing. That is a really hard position, when you set a goal ( whether it is taking seats or pulling away) and you don't achieve it. When this happens I usually tell the crew that we are still moving very strong, but the other crew/s are also moving well. I then ask them to prove to me, who wants it more. I ask them to show me if it will be them that stands on the 1# position or the other crew. Get them to think about a couple mintues of physical pain, and a win. Or letting go and it hurting physically and mentally for a lot longer. This is my four year coxing.
That is a really hard position, when you set a goal ( whether it is taking seats or pulling away) and you don’t achieve it.
When this happens I usually tell the crew that we are still moving very strong, but the other crew/s are also moving well.
I then ask them to prove to me, who wants it more. I ask them to show me if it will be them that stands on the 1# position or the other crew.
Get them to think about a couple mintues of physical pain, and a win.
Or letting go and it hurting physically and mentally for a lot longer.

]]> By: Christine http://www.9thseat.com/advanced-coxswain/know-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Christine Fri, 01 May 2009 17:22:58 +0000 http://www.9thseat.com/?p=73#comment-45 If you call them to execute say, taking the lead and they fail, how do you convey/handle that so as to not discourage them. thanks, If you call them to execute say, taking the lead and they fail, how do you convey/handle that so as to not discourage them.

thanks,

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