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2015 Schools Rowing

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lincoln said:
Seemingly total absence of BROs - a proud and ancient fraternity. They are at the regattas for a reason.
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Really - there were six that I counted. There was also a Regatta in town as well. How many are there normally?
 
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Barry said:
Hi LBA, hope the coffee was good. Make sure you check your Grammar.
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Sorry Barry - Sun stroke from NOT packing a hat. I will pack it next weekend, actually I will pack a bag for all seasons when I attend the Sydney Grammar Regatta.

I actually got a coffee on the way out - I will a sample the coffee next week.
 
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I just checked the Roster on the Rowing NSW Website there were six at the Roseville College Regatta as well. The races were seven minutes apart - an umpire followed every race.

Please explain lincoln???
 
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Thank you Bill Webb Ellis - Blame it on the sun stroke !!! Or maybe the red
 
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Billy Sheehan (19)
So if we call SIC and SJC "the Catholics" then do we call Kings, New, Scots and Shore "the Prots"? From what I saw they appeared to be rowing out there, not saying the rosary.
 
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Really and truly - I do not care about faith, race or banking institution you belong to - as behindtheshed we are not saying the rosary. Unless you are on bended knee praying to the God of Rowing as I do on a regular basis - the topic is rowing! Row Row your boat - and now the effects of the sun and that bottle of red have gone. The racing yesterday was exciting - close margins and photo finishes.

All the boys in the boat park had big smiles on their faces and are keen to return next week.
 
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Bill Webb Ellis said:
My apologies for any offence. I was too lazy to type them individually. Is there an appropriate collective description for joeys and riverview?
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No offence - well not to me, anyway. More just musing on why we still reflexively classify based on religion even when doing something unrelated like sport.
 
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Bill Webb Ellis said:
These are my final comments to touch on religion
I think the last 250 metres of any race is probably the most religious period of many junior rowers week. Their minds are filled with thoughts like
"Oh God, when will this pain end" & "oh God this hurts"
After the finish line they move to
"Thank God that is over"
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Mature rowers as well :):):):):)
 
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Bob Loudon (25)
behindtheshed said:
So if we call SIC and SJC "the Catholics" then do we call Kings, New, Scots and Shore "the Prots"? From what I saw they appeared to be rowing out there, not saying the rosary.
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All could be bar High and Grammar given within Protestantism the word "catholic" is generally taken in the sense of "universal" and in this sense many leading Protestant denominations identify themselves as part of the catholic church. The Anglican high church likes to think of itself as Anglo-Catholicism but I know that Shore is definitely low church - not sure about Kings.
 
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Barry said:
Having discussed with a few different schools what their plans for training are for the upcoming holidays, it seems the trend for more and more organised holiday training is growing. Some schools are running three separate rowing camps and providing training programs for the non-camp days. I made a suggestion the other day that a Maadi Cup style regatta would be great for Australia, but I admit, this would just place more large time commitment on the rowers. In the 'old' days a lot of rowers could easily transition from rowing to rugby, and many could play in the 1st XV and row in the 1st VIII. With the standard of rugby becoming increasingly higher, there is a greater need for specialisation. Those athletes good enough these days to play 1st XV and 1st VIII have a massive sporting workload cut out for themselves, and you wonder when they have a chance to do their schoolwork. To cap the time commitment on rowers, some advocate setting a training limit that rowers can do at each school, but the problem with that would be that there would be a lot of cheating, or rowers would go and join a rowing club to do more training. The students these days just seem to have everyone asking them to more training, more excursions, more schoolwork, more everything. It just seems to be getting more and more hectic, and a lot of kids seem to be hanging out to the end of school so they can have a GAP year to help recover from Year 12 and do something 'fun'.

Anyway, I just thought I would re-spark the discussion - should there be a cap on how much rowing training each school should be allowed to do and what sort of systems could be put in place to monitor that schools adhere to it?
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Barry very interesting - I have thoughts I will share with you when I can. If caps were put into place - who would set them - would it be up to the AAGPS Association or individual schools. Then if Cranbrook / St Augustine's were to turn up - would they have an advantage.

Are training caps given to other athletes? Other GPS sports?
 
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Ken Catchpole (46)
Barry said:
Anyway, I just thought I would re-spark the discussion - should there be a cap on how much rowing training each school should be allowed to do and what sort of systems could be put in place to monitor that schools adhere to it?
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Absolutely impossible.
  1. There already is a "cap" in another area - school sporting scholarships - which has been honoured more often in the breach than the observance:
  2. There is no way short of draconian oversight for this policy to be policed:
  3. The schools are independent and would never allow a system to prevent them from getting a competitive advantage in any of the AAGPS sports:
  4. Until a coach invents a sure-fire training system where "less is more" the current workloads will continue.
 
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Darby Loudon (17)
The first part of the GPS sculling trials were held on the Friday night... 1900m rolling start. Apparently all schools turned up except Shore. They have been known to do that before. Having the trials off didn't seem to help them on Saturday. Any word on the best performers?
 
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Darby Loudon (17)
I'd be tipping the stroke of the Newington VIII may be up the top followed by the Joeys stroke.... It's a punt.
 
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