4.9.11 Men's Novice Eight, Knecht Cup/Villanova Invitational

[cyclebikes]

bad news when the stroke man has been sitting 3/4 slide so long his knee appears to be bothering him (@3:07)

[jizzleforizzel]

a 2k is a full pressure piece power 10's and 20's just hurt form and tier out rowers. im not a coach but i have raced this iona boat in both the nov 8 and nov 4. there form seems to really be lacking in the third 500.

[Poochie9382]

That's why a lot of the times the event is called Freshman/Novice. You just have to keep working hard so you can compete with them next year.

[Kromer0]

@Poochie9382

As a rower, I think there should be a separation between "Novice Walk ons" and "Novice recruits". Even if BC and TC said they were "novices", they were all recruits. That is why they were both faster than their varsity squad (I think the novices had 15 seconds faster). Probably the current also helped, but I don't think it is fair for us to race against rowers with pre-college experience.

I was in the same race as you guys, on a different boat, and I am a walk on

[Cischr1]

@Kromer0 BC had 4 walk-ons in their 1F and 7 in their 2F who had never rowed before the fall. None of the experienced rowers were recruited, and only a couple contacted the coach only a month before school started. A combination of good coaching and a competitive spirit can be attributed to BC's success in the F8+ these past two years. Trinity's 1F definitely was not faster than their varsity throughout the year, though they did have plenty of recruits, and it showed in the 2F.

[10thseat]

@Kromer0 P.S. As Poochie said there is a reason it is not just called Novice Eight. It is called Frosh/Novice Eight at ALL races to signify the fact that boats can be a combination of freshmen and novices of any year (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, etc.). A simple glance at the Iona College roster will not only indicate that they are probably a varsity program but that their stroke rowed in high-school aka pre-college experience...

[jpieper34]

Counting up, however, gets the rowers pressure up and lets them know it needs to keep going for the rest of the race.

[jpieper34]

Yeah I really do think it is a shame to see rowers talking bad like this to other fellow rowers. Like their coach said everyone was there at one point in time. One word of advice though to the coxswain, I would recommend counting up when calling power 10's and 5's. From the perspective of a rower when we hear counting down, like when you get to 1, we mentally tend to want to drop pressure off as if we are just getting ready to finish a piece.

[Poochie9382]

Looks like you missed the crucial word in the title of this video..."novice". Just remember YOU were a novice so be kind. I can assure you, as their coach, I addressed all the issues that you brilliantly discovered on your own.

[dirigo8]

you guys trained really hard for this 7:12! maybe if you weren't sitting at the catch for 5+ straight minutes you would have done better

[07tmanz]

If I don't hear at least 25 f bombs in the first thirty seconds, this guy sucks as a cox

[benjamminlv1]

i feel sorry for you guys, i at least hope he can steer straight