Rowingchat

Martin has coached in UK, Ireland and Canada, a specialist in mens sweep he won Olympic Gold in Sydney 2000. We talk leadership, governance and good coaching. Timestamps to the show 03:00 Background in rowing 05:30 from Imperial College in 1995 where Bill Mason was coaching GB womens 8 09:30 How does junior rowing need to change to support rowing up to its Olympic peak? Do junior medalist become senior medalists? 18:00 Age group rowing and making ability the decider for crew selection 22:00 Year 12 is the finale of school and this year there's no Canadian Henley so they join clubs 24:30 Comparison between UK, Ireland and Canada for their international rowing system. 30:00 What you need in sport - at lower levels people putting things in place to catalyse action 35:00 Sanita Puspure's development as an athlete 39:00 My 1997 life lesson in understanding athlete resilience and injury to survive the training. 45:00 The expectation set by Governance in rowing is critical. Rowing suffers from homophilia - rec