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Training in a hypoxic chamber

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yourmatesam

Desmond Connor (43)
How much does one of those cost? You'd really have to question priorities at that place

Hang on a minute, think about all the Scots old boys who need to bang on about how good the hypoxic chamber is? What will they brag about if they can't splash their cash on this sort of equipment? What will they say to their mates if this gets taken away from them?

Let's hear the Lion roar.
 

dodgyknee

Allen Oxlade (6)
About $100k according to the papers. Funded by Old Boy Donations.

$100k at Scots is revenue from 3 and a bit students.
considering lots of other schools have have plenty of more ovals to train on at their schools , this is a lot cheaper option to level the playing field than having to buy more ovals. Scots can't get everyone at afternoon training on the one oval they have, and to much time is wasted getting on buses to train elsewhere. better gyms make up for less ovals , now they have an option, and training is harder and more intensive- think smarter
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
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considering lots of other schools have have plenty of more ovals to train on at their schools , this is a lot cheaper option to level the playing field than having to buy more ovals. Scots can't get everyone at afternoon training on the one oval they have, and to much time is wasted getting on buses to train elsewhere. better gyms make up for less ovals , now they have an option, and training is harder and more intensive- think smarter
How many teams do they fit in it at once? I mean, an oval can accommodate a lot of people, and if this is replacing one or several.........
 

dodgyknee

Allen Oxlade (6)
Thats a good point.
can you practice goal kicking in a hypoxic chamber? Is it counter productive to do so?
I think goal kicking is as good as goal kicking on a bus. Glad you got my point, but its better for mind games than a bus, so why the big fuss, just overcome the mind games.
 

dodgyknee

Allen Oxlade (6)
Just saying I think they did it, to help with lack of resources like oval. If you where at a school with plenty of ovals you wouldn't bother. But with only one oval, I can see why they decided to convert a classroom into something else for the kids to do, rather than wasting time on busing kids to nearby ovals. I would rather spend more time doing something different to improve fitness then sit on a bus. It's a bit like a treadmill argument, or gym. Why don't schools close there gyms - they could always just run outside and lift logs - I am sure that would make them have more fun. And if ovals don't help a school why do so many of them have more than one on their main school grounds. Could it be they need to spread training around different areas so they can all fit in. That could be seen as an unfair advantage
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
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Just saying I think they did it, to help with lack of resources like oval. If you where at a school with plenty of ovals you wouldn't bother. But with only one oval, I can see why they decided to convert a classroom into something else for the kids to do, rather than wasting time on busing kids to nearby ovals. I would rather spend more time doing something different to improve fitness then sit on a bus. It's a bit like a treadmill argument, or gym. Why don't schools close there gyms - they could always just run outside and lift logs - I am sure that would make them have more fun. And if ovals don't help a school why do so many of them have more than one on their main school grounds. Could it be they need to spread training around different areas so they can all fit in. That could be seen as an unfair advantage
You're really clutching at straws to come up with a plausible reason for such a facility which would benefit, at most, less than 1-2% of the school students, and in very specific sports (rowing, cycling, long distance running which require high aerobic capacity specifically).
 

I like to watch

David Codey (61)
In the scheme of things,$100k here or there for the chamber is no big deal.
annual turnover for the School is circa $60M pa.
It would stick in my craw a bit if I was a fee paying parent,who understood that the 1 or 2% of the student population who used the facility,were predominantly those that were not of the fee paying variety.
But apparently reflected glory is a satisfactory emotion.
 

dodgyknee

Allen Oxlade (6)
In the scheme of things,$100k here or there for the chamber is no big deal.
annual turnover for the School is circa $60M pa.
It would stick in my craw a bit if I was a fee paying parent,who understood that the 1 or 2% of the student population who used the facility,were predominantly those that were not of the fee paying variety.
But apparently reflected glory is a satisfactory emotion.
if they only got the school band to use it first I am sure that would not have upset others. Do sports people complain about hi tech equipment used in bands or speech and drama class for recording music , videos
Etc
 

Inside Shoulder

Nathan Sharpe (72)
if they only got the school band to use it first I am sure that would not have upset others. Do sports people complain about hi tech equipment used in bands or speech and drama class for recording music , videos
Etc
They might if they put in a studio worthy of a professional set up in LA or Nashville.
But I dont really care they can spend their money on whatever they want - subject to the not unreasonable view that if you have money to throw at ridiculously unimportant things like this maybe you dont need the support of the government.
In my day this would have been called "a wank" - pure and simple
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
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if they only got the school band to use it first I am sure that would not have upset others. Do sports people complain about hi tech equipment used in bands or speech and drama class for recording music , videos
Etc
They can do what they like - it's a private school.
But call it what it is - flashy window-dressing and showing-off, and not a sensible replacement for limited oval space, nor even a practical adjunct to schoolboy sport training.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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The hypoxic chamber at Scots is very much set up for the elite athletes of the school to utilise.

I absolutely guarantee that these kids are also the ones that get to train on the school's main oval (if they're playing a sport that uses playing fields) and aren't bused to other playing fields for training.
 

Lindommer

Steve Williams (59)
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.....with only one oval, I can see why they decided to convert a classroom into something else for the kids to do, rather than wasting time on busing kids to nearby ovals. I would rather spend more time doing something different to improve fitness then sit on a bus.

Fucking spare me, dk, this is what we're trying to do in the western world: get kids off their khybers playing computer games and into the open air playing real games with other (real) people. There is NOTHING better in sport than playing with other sports people on sports grounds.
 
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