St. Ignatius Vs. Shrewsbury Recording/Tribute

Round of the Semi Finals in the Henley Royal Regatta for Juniors in 2006.

The American National winning crew vs. the Brittish National winning crew.

The recording is taken from SI's coxswain.

A note about the mood of the race. You can hear it in the start of the video, the crowd wasn't exactly ready to embrace an American crew beating their country's champions.

HRR is an amazing place of history and tradition. The sport is huge there, on the way up to the starting line, you can see people packed along the race course tryng to get a good view of the race coming down.

Make no mistake... EVERYONE, was rooting for Shrewsbury in this one.

The crew was notorious for sprinting real early and psychologically messing with the other crews both at the start and the finish.

Race plan was to stick the race plan, and not get psyched and start/end moves too early.

The race was pretty close at the end, and by the end the crowd was so loud, the rowers could barely hear their coxswains.

Enjoy.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Coxswain
• Cox
• Recording
• Crew
• Rowing
• Intense
• St.
• Ignatius
• 2006
• Henley
• Royal
• Regatta

[kncstop3]

is that st ignatius from san francisco?

[Zid4ne]

yes.

[phatmattd]

This was so fucking inspirational and cool

[nateo200]

Awesome coxing man. You kept on them the whole time making sure they got maximum performance and speed really good job.

[piroguy1000]

wow we need a cox like that!!!!!

[redskater42]

to much counting 

[pinkglitterlove24]

THIS IS AMAZING!!! IM A NOVIE COXSWAIN (started last week) and your MY INSPIRATION!

[BroknHeartdPeopl]

Chills. Novice cox doing some research. My first race is this weekend in a Varsity 4 and I can only hope to be this good.

[herb821]

the best crew is nothing without a great coxswain, also the best coxswain is nothing without a great crew

[tecshtarcs]

I got kind of emotional listening to that.. this is amazing. Novice Cox here doing my homework... so excited to be a part of rowing.

[nh20003]

@macgt53 port and starboard are the politically correct names of the areas of the boat. You don't hear sailors say 'can you just turn to stroke side a bit' cause there is no stroke.

[redskater42]

These rowers are all really tall! What was the 2k avg. for this boat?

[pirddor]

@o8strider8o swearing is frowned upon because it doesn't make great listening for the people watching. It can sometimes be useful for the rowers to make a very strong point, but if you swear too much it loses the impact. Anyway it's a tradition to be a gentleman in this sport, at least while your in the boat.

Am all for the witty, sharp comments, a little bit of humour distracts from the pain. "On my word boys, unleash hell," or "this power ten for Jimmy's mom."

[ijhbabex]

is it just me or do americans like rythem and counting when the britsh go all out mental