Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Broken Oars Podcast!   It's often been said, usually by us, that Broken Oars Podcast is the home of world-class rowing and rowers on the web ...   ... and we prove it yet again in this episode as we are joined by the one, the only, the incredible ...   Elizabeth Gilmore.   For those of you have been living under a rock, Eli is the world-class rowing athlete who has been tearing up the record book since starting in the sport barely two years ago.    Eli joins us for a chat about her sporting background, how she got into indoor rowing, and her transition to the water. Hardly covering ourselves with interviewing technique glory, Lewin and I basically fanboy gush over an incredible person and athlete who had smashed several world records immediately before our conversation. We touch on the vital importance of good and supportive coaching in Eli's journey, the pressures young athletes face regarding body image, weight and performance, and look at where Eli's rowing journey might take her next (we suggested Henley Royal and Henley Women's, but that's just us ...).   We've always been blessed with amazing guests on Broken Oars Podcast, but that's largely because we talk to rowers ... who are, basically, amazing people.   And Eli is one of us.   Just considerably faster than most of us.   Get some!   ------   Producing Broken Oars Podcast costs time and money. Please support us so we can carry on making the best rowing content in the world by buying us a coffee.   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/   Follow Eli on Twitter: www.instagram.com/eltgilmore/

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Two of the Big Beasts of the Sub 7 Indoor Rowing Club sit down with us for a good old Trans-Atlantic chinwag, about Indoor Rowing, Type II fun, Long Covid, the C2 Cross Team Challenge, trying (and failing) to bring others into the sport and why belonging to and indoor rowing club is good fun. Albeit Type II fun.

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Your genial hosts, Lewin (Southern, posh) and Aaron (Northern, illiterate) returns as warriors of old who have journeyed beyond the circle of firelight to gain the knowledge that men know not wot of and return with it for the general benefit and edification of the tribe ...   ... and lo, the tribe turned around and said:   Where the hell have you two been? You've slid out of doing the washing-up again, we see ... ?   But we return with the secret that men ...   ... and women ...   ... and women, that men and women know not wot of and we ...   That's all very well, but no-one's done the floors, and there's nothing in the fridge for tea ...   ... but we return with the secret that men ...   ... and women ...   ... that men and women know not wot of, and ...   Shush. Henley's on.   Ah.   Yes, we return just in time for Henley's weeks.   It's like we've got access to calendars and watches and diaries and the internet and stuff.   So, in this episode there is:   No poetry!   No dead authors!   A couple of living ones ...   And a brief discussion of killer hayfever; people trying to outfox the strict liability rule, the death of wonder in sports, the joy, absolute joy of small regattas, the wonder of Hexham (where Lewin asks why our Victorian forebears decided to take representative slices of Surrey and the better bits of the Upper Thames Valley and put them as Southern embassies in the North in the case of Durham and Hexham); racing while gypsies wash horses in the river next to you; Appleby; why the correct number of boats, horses and guitars is always 'one more ...'; and why Women's Henley could now be considered as 'proper' Henley now that Henley Royal has become a superslick paean to elite athletes and clubs ... But because it's us, we don't leave it there, diving into the cyclical nature of success; the art of commentary (and why we both want to do more of it); why stockpiling elite athletes in HP programmes (Hi, OB ...) like America and Russia stockpiled Nazi scientists after WW2 does not lead to global armageddon but does cut down on the pathways to rowing at Uni that many of our best and brightest and stalwartest came through ... before we do something amazing:   We invent a whole new regatta.   And it's the regatta you've always wanted to do.   Simply the world's best rowing podcast, bar none (We reckon we can take Crossy now ... (Oh, who are we kidding. He could still have us over the time and distance ... )), we run this on nothing more than wit, spit and elan, so buy us a coffee. We don't charge for this podcast, but it does take us some time and effort to produce, edit, resource and so on so the odd hot cuppa and biscuits wouldn't go amiss!   Get some!   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/So, bow, you tell me that you have rhythm? And you also have music? And yet you still dare to ask for anything more ... ?

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   This is the audio version of the video we put up on YT some months ago about how to go about and what to look for in the purchasing of rowing coaching.  The Posh Southern One looks at - Why you should and shouldn't buy coaching. The Pete Plan The Concept 2 Interactive Training Guide RowAlong with John Steventon Dark Horse Rowing, YouTube Asensei Rowing What types of coaching and programming you can purchase. https://www.rojabo.com/ https://www.live2rowstudios.com/ https://ucanrow2.com/ https://www.aliciarclark.com/ https://tonylarkman.com/indoor-rowing/ https://edgerowing.com/ https://fletchersportscience.com/ https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/faculties-schools-and-departments/faculty-of-science-engineering-and-social-sciences/sportslab/services-for-teams-and-individuals https://www.erg.zone/ What your initial interaction with a coach should be like, and the basics of managing the coach athlete relationship.

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Having previously examined the science informing the debate around Trans inclusion in Women's categories in sport, Broken Oars Podcast returns with an updated look at what remains fast-moving, ongoing and highly-contentious issue.   During a recent conversation, Lewin and I turned again to discuss what had happened since our first discussion of these issues, particularly with regards to highly-contentious issue of natal-men being allowed to compete against natal-women in sport; the pressures faced by NGB's to promote a sport-for-all approach in the face of quite incendiary activism on the Trans side and pushback on the women's side; and the questions of fairness and inclusivity that must be at the heart of every discussion.   Upon reviewing our intiial conversation, we decided that, on occasion, we had been too flippant about what is a serious subject. You will know, as regular listeners, that we take very little seriously, including ourselves, and treat everyone as fair game, including ourselves.   On this occasion, however, we realised that given how inflammatory some of the rhetoric, language, case-making and arguments have been in the discussion to date, what was needed was a sober look at the facts and realities of Trans biology, inclusion, and the current policies of rowing's regulatory bodies - and what they mean for the current state of play.   So here it is ...   Full Crew. From backstops. The first movement is down and it doesn't have to be fast. You aren't grabbing the last sausage roll at the party. Attention ...

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Welcome back one and all to Broken Oars Podcast - the Rowing World's best and most informative podcast (bar Crossy's Corner - we'll hear no bad words about that man. He's a legend).   As you know, while the Southern One finishes up a professional qualification the Northern One has been taking his brain out for a spin to talk about poets and poetry.   (Yes, it does sound remarkably like listening to paint drying, doesn't it ... ?)   But fear not, this is the Northern One - a man incapable of uttering a snooze-inducing sentence, finding a subject he can't make a quip or point about, or being boring generally. And it is in that capacity that he's created the perfect series for people to dip into while the nights are long, the air balmy, and the weather perfect for sitting out in the garden and doing some culture.   Yeah.   Cultchah! Having whistle-stopped through Thomas Hardy and A.E Housman, detoured into how a Brian called Geordie (should that sentence be the other way 'round ... ? Ed) is to blame for guitar heroes and all of their widdle, and then leapt back to look at Charles Dickens ... a theme is emerging ...   That's right:   How did we get here from there.   Or to put it more simply, why Britain today is largely the same as Britain then?   (Isn't this fun? We're learning all about caesuras and enjambments and what happened when and where and to who and asking cool questions! Who said no, when's the rowing stuff coming ... ?).   In this episode we engage with one of the most problematic writers in the canon: Rudyard Kipling.   An Anglo-Indian, with a deep apprehension of the realities and mythologies of Empire, Kipling was more famous in his day than Steve Redgrave (largely because Steve Redgrave hadn't been born then) but is rarely read now.   We learn why; explore why it's a short step from denying or revising books to burning them; and look at why should and what we can learn from engaging with a racist, and imperialist ... and the most important English writer since Shakespeare. We explore how Empire was not a benevolent force for good, or a civilising mission but instead always and forever an economic enterprise; and illustrate how its expansion ran alongside technological expansion - something Kipling was keenly aware of.   Examining Kipling's status as an Anglo-Indian, and thus a second-class person, we look at the way he explored and exposed the myths of Empire to show its realities: the overt racism of The White Man's Burden, the sham of Britain standing alone given its reliance on its connections to the world in Big Steamers; and the people who work alongside or create the technology that sustains the whole endeavour in McAndrew's Hymn and The King. We reclaim Mandalay from Boorish and see how Kipling's wide-ranging work in poetry, short stories, children's stories and novels should be engaged with if we are to overcome our cultural amnesia and beliefs about the missing 300 years of our history that we don't talk about or teach.    And that's before we get to Tommy - as pertinent now as it was then.   And it's out in time for the weekend? And there's a rowing episode coming out too?   Get some!   Bow? You're a jelly-bellied flag-flapper. Take a tap.

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Broken Oars Podcast returns with its celebrated Summer Shorts series.   After the fever dream that was Thomas Hardy as social climber; the weirdness that was A.E Housman inventing England; and an exploration of how a Geordie called Brian invented the guitar hero (true ... ), on our summer shorts programme we dive back to the early Victorian period ...   Why? That was you, wasn't it, three? It's always three ... Because a theme is emerging, an exploration of something that might loosely be called the condition of England. This is a term that hasn't been in fashion since before the First World War, but it's helpful in understanding why Britain is the way it is in the third decade of the twenty-first century if we also understand that many of the things we struggle with today were things we struggled with then ...   Step forward, Charlie boy! Pour a glass of something nice, put your feet up, load an air-rifle in case the lady-next-door's determination to keep hens has led to a sudden increase in furry visitors (as it has in at least one of our cases) and we'll get into why imaginative leaps forward rarely come from elites; how the British national character has always been defined by a tension between the drive to be modern and the urge to look back and why it was originally the Conservative Party who were seen as the party of the meddlesome big state - and how that perception has flipped around in the last 150 years.   And yes, I know that this might sound as dull as ditchwater, but it's me - you know it won't be. Think of Broken Oars Summer Shorts Series as being like In Our Time but without Melvyn Bragg's hair, portentiousness and bevvy of researchers doing the heavy lifting and far more quips, asides and insight.   We'll look at why free markets didn't work then and don't work now - and how they've never been free in any era. We'll explore how and why Britain hasn't changed in 200 years; investigate why everyone's working class regardless of whether they know how to make their own pasta or not; explore what literature was considered to be back then; and see how Charles Dickens, through luck as much as acumen, tapped into a new audience; and in doing so, how his belief in the fundamental kindliness of human nature, embraced by this audience, helped to balance the undoubted issues and iniquities of the age and prompt some of them to be addressed.Sounds good? Of course it does! And it isn't all doom and gloom. After all, if we hadn't been in such a terrible place back then, people wouldn't have left and as a result we wouldn't have got to talk to Drew and Berge and Macca - because they'd still be making shoes in a Leceistershire workshop somewhere for tuppence h'penny a decade.   And in the end, it really is true that kindness is all. We're told to be kind to ourselves nowadays - and being kind to others wouldn't hurt either.   Back soon with more rowing?   You bet!   Get some!   Yes, I know he's not a poet, three. There'll be more poetry along soon too.   -----   Try listening to us with a coffee - and if you're feeling generous, stand us one.   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   I (Northern One), have thought of so many ways to introduce this:   The finest rower of his generation is joined by Drew Ginn, Andrew McNeil, Anthony Bergelin and Lewin Hynes to ...   You know - that tongue-in-cheek quippy thing that you've come to expect from your Northern Correspondent while your Southern Correspondent (Lewin) does all of the science-y bits and the intelligent questions.   Or, something like:   The world's finest rowing podcast (Crossy's Corner excluded. We'll not hear a word said against Martin. He's a living legend) returns and gives three unknowns from a land down under a chance to talk about shovelling a boat backwards down a river ...   You know - the self-deprecating / self-aggrandising stuff that we do so well on Broken Oars Podcast (while also being, you know, the best rowing podcast in the world ... ).   But I can't.   Because, ladies and gentlemen (and children of all ages), we bring to you:   THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN ROUNDTABLE!   It's our first ever roundtable, and we're not sure we'll ever be able to top it. Why? Not just because it's taken over a year to organise, but because your genial Southern One (Lewin) and your genially-grumpy Northern one (Aaron) are joined by Anthony Bergelin, Andrew McNeil and Drew Ginn.   Yes, this is an absolute brains trust of rowing and performance, and you, like us, get to join in with one of the best conversations about rowing you're every likely to hear, but unlike most in the field, Berge, Drew and Macca come at these elements from the refreshing perspective of engaging with and enjoying what you're doing first, and connecting who you're doing it with ... because if you tick those boxes, the first two will surely follow.   So, strap in, buckle up, and tune in to hear about the early years, why culture is not something you write on a piece of paper but live through your values; why lightweights are bitter and twisted; why the club system is so, so important; about how connection is all, not just to the water, but to those around you: how you build trust by empowering people to have a voice; why why is the most important question you can ask (and if people say 'because I say so' you're in the wrong place); why feel beats data in rowing when data in rowing doesn't also feel; why more mileage doesn't equal better rowers but buying a frisbee just might; how great coaches give of themselves, while lesser ones might take or look to over-control; that being fast going in straight lines is great, but rowing on rivers where there's a beer and bbq waiting for you at the end might just be the thing you're looking for; how jumping in a boat with the juniors or the masters lads and lasses doesn't take away from you as a senior (believe us, if one of the greatest to ever do it is not just willing but vocal about diving in with a mate's daughter and enjoying it, you should be too ... ); music, patterns, rowers vs. athletes, the athletic mindset, running thought experiments on yourself, and training back in the curiosity and love of life you had trained out of you by the 'this is how you do it ...' approach.   Seriously, get a notebook, get a pen, get a cup of coffee and take notes.   Berge, Macca and Drew are about to change your lives.   The Broken Oars listenership is a generous and giving one, so if you could follow back to vsk.org.au, and support their and Drew's work, we'd appreciate it. Cancer will hit 1 in every 2 of us at some point in our lives, so if it doesn't hit us, it's likely to affect someone close to us ... so let's get in this fight and push back.   And hit the guys up on Twitter with your c

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening.   Welcome back to Episode Three of Broken Oars Summer Shorts Series.   Try saying that quickly six times ...   In this episode, we shift from talking about poets working in one form (poetry, obvs ... ) to the man who invented the guitar hero. This poet of the instrument, responsible for refiguring the guitar from something with six strings into a mystical weapon in the hands of its practitioners, was a man called Brian   And he was from Newcastle.   No, seriously.   This isn't the Northern One's having one of his occasional flights of linguistic fancy. It's all true.   So turn on, drop out and tune in to find out how Brian from Newcastle not only invented the guitar hero but also inspired every act of sonic magic created by six strings that happened thereafter. We'll talk about how its girls who rule the world while boys always remain boys - and why it's this reality that's responsible for the legions of spods and corksniffers who came along post-Brian to make the guitar, guitar music and guitar culture the heritage industry it is today.    But mostly it's about Brian, from Newcastle, who changed the world.   You're welcome, world.   (And if you're thinking: what has this to do with rowing, with training, with creating a culture, with leadership, with attaining goals and objectives ...   ... on one level, nothing.   But on another, absolutely everything. You see, the perceived narrative has a dominance that means we often don't question it - which leads to things just being accepted 'because that's the way they are.' But if you go a little deeper, and you actually start looking at the processes that create the end product or the output, you often find that what's driving something is not what you originally thought. And no, this is not a heavy trip to lay on a bespectacled Geordie called Brian. It's true).   Try listening to us with a coffee - and if you're feeling generous, stand us one.   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/

Dear Listener, thank you for your attention to our podcast, which, unlike many and most activities on the internet is not free to make. Should you be enjoying the podcast and wish to help us make more episode please consider buying us a coffee or purchasing one of our digital downloads at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsd. Thank you again for listening. Welcome back to Episode Two of Broken Oars Summer Shorts Series - the book club for rowers where no books about rowing are discussed ...   (And that's a promise ... ).   Instead, to fill the golden dawns and endless twilights of summer, we're taking a whirl through some poets and poetry, leavened with the odd observation about the things that the Northern One used to know about before Covid and Long Covid bollocksed his brain: culture, history, why everything is an art, why artists are as full of crap as the rest of us, self-narration, why squaring early helps with developing a good catch ...   You know ...    Bowsider stuff.   In this episode, following on from our first episode deep dive into Thomas Hardy (and yes, we know: a deep dive into a native of Dorset is not a thing to be taken likely. We speak from experience when it comes to that, but it can be very rewarding, especially if you like rough scrumpy and cold sea swimming as the sun comes up. No, these are not metaphors ... ) we get stuck into the life and work of A. E. Housman.   A late-Victorian Classicist who caught the uneasy mood of late-nineteenth century Britain, Housman's first collection, A Shropshire Lad, appears, on the surface, to reflect the beliefs of his era: the vigour and promise of youth; that England's authentic spirit is held in her landscapes, particularly those of her countryside; and that perhaps something eternal and intrinsic has been lost in Britain's race to invent the modern world.   All of those themes are there, of course. The late-Victorian period is, after all, when the Victorian's literary obsession with little girls as symbols of purity and innocence gives way to celebrating young boys and men - fittingly enough in a culture that suggested that martial prowess had won Britain the empire.   But there is a deeper, resonant melancholy in Housman's work. On one level, this reflects the then-held sense that although British Imperial power had never been greater, there was a feeling that the best had past; that the only way to fulfil youthful promise was to die young and enshrine its potential rather see that potential failed to live up to; that something, indeed, had been lost.   On the other, it speaks more potently of Housman's own unrequited passion for a fellow male undergraduate; what he felt he had lost; that the golden promise of his own youth as manifested in those feelings had not been realised for all his professional success. From this perspective, the landscapes of the blue-remembered hills, read as England's lost pastoral spirit remaining in the land by some, are actually the internal landscapes of the heart, and what Housman himself had lost.   Sounds weird? Yeah. The Victorians were, as the youth of today say, completely mental. So pull up a chair, get a glass of something cold and good, or hot and steaming, and let's dive into an object lesson of how they might be our ancestors but they might as well be aliens for all we have in common with them.   Except for the idea that Britain's best days are behind her - that one's a hardy perennial thrown out regularly by everyone from scoundrel politicos to offshore press barons alike. Plus ca change, eh ... ?   ----- Try listening to us with a coffee - and if you're feeling generous, stand us one.   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/