Transporting Equipment with Trailers Part 2: loading your trailer
This second blog post in a series of 3 for moving rowing equipment with trailers focuses on managing the load you plan to tow in your trailer. What do we mean by this? We mean that if you balance a trailer in different ways it can affect your driving capabilities, endangering yourself and the equipment you're towing. We'll show you why this occurs and helpful tips on how you can balance your trailer for optimum safety. Balancing and placing your items
Transporting Equipment with Trailers Part 1: setting up for the trip
Transporting rowing equipment by trailer is a great solution to getting your rowers to distant regattas and training camps. On the other hand, driving trailers with loads that are wide or long (e.g. rowing shells) can be dangerous if not done right. Protect your drivers and your equipment by reading ad learning from our 3 part blog post series on transporting rowing equipment with trailers. PART 1 - setting up for the trip. Load lifting (don't hurt yourself, use a jack!) - to hitch
How to avoid rowing boat crashes (and deal with them) Part 2
Part 2 Rowing Accidents do happen - what do you do then?
How to avoid rowing boat crashes (and deal with them) Pt.1
Water safety is very important in rowing, and crash safety most of all. There are many ways to avoid crashes in rowing but more importantly you've got to know how to deal with a crash if it occurs. Sometimes you can’t avoid a collision. Rowing boats are small and bigger boats can have trouble seeing them while speedboats coming around a corner often don’t have the reaction time to avoid them. Don’t jump out of the water just yet though, we’re
Rowing Club Roles #2: Secondary roles for larger clubs
As a rowing club grows there’s more work to be done, and more need to delegate so as not to over-work committee members. The following 6 roles are examples of good practice. Not all may be required however, and multiple roles may be taken by the same person: Vice President(s) With a slight difference to the Secretary, a Vice President’s duties involve running fundraising events/activities, sponsorship and liaising with corporate supporters and alumni members, and substituting for/representing the President at meetings as
Rowing Club Roles #1: The 5 most important roles, key to success
Running a rowing club is a huge challenge and requires plenty of teamwork. If your club lacks people from any of the following roles you might want to consider adding a new member to your committee: President Presidents are in charge of all policy matters. They chair all meetings, oversee general conduct of the club, and liaise with Boatman and Coaches as appropriate. For University based clubs they would also attend all Athletic Union meetings as well as organise/allocate Recruitment Fair. An
How to track your athlete’s progress
Coaches strive to develop their athletes to be better in every aspect of their chosen sport. The difficulty is tracking exactly how an athlete has improved so their training can be balanced, sustained and adjusted. Test measurements are one way to appraise progress but daily self-measurement by the athlete can also be helpful for a coach. The results also help with the coaching of other athletes because they can be used for future reference or to modify training regimes overall. We want
Train rowing club novices: Wraptor Balance FREE club trial
THIS FREE TRIAL HAS EXPIRED Have you heard of the number one way to save your club space and money? How do you encourage new athletes to join your club without wearing your resources thin? We’ve found the solution in the Wraptor Balance and are so confident that we’re happy to give your club a trial run! What is the Wraptor Balance? The Wraptor Balance is a floatation device to help novices get used to the balance and flow of rowing. It straps
How to measure the success of a Rowing Coach
Mike Davenport explores many interesting rowing topics on his blog: Coaching Sports Today. As we read through his blog we found that he uses the metaphor of a vehicle dashboard to describe the things we should check about the performance of coaches. “Similar to the dashboard in your car a coaching-dashboard has instruments, or metrics, that give you feedback. Feedback that can tell you whether you're on track, getting better or not, or if there's anything that you need to pay attention to
Introducing the Wraptor Balance: time effective, cost effective and efficient rowing club training equipment
Space Saver Rowing Systems and Diarmuid Fehily present: THE WRAPTOR BALANCE What is it and what does it do? The Wraptor Balance is a floatation device which can fit to any of your boats and clips on and off with ease. It is used to train rowers in the art of balancing the boat, helping them maintain speed and direction. It’s light, durable, and it’s use spans all levels of rowing. What’s really special about this piece of equipment is it’s simplicity: Unbox the Wraptor Balance. Slide it onto the