And no one wants to be referred to as baggage. A newer concept has popped up recently in reference to someone who has a good erg score. Is it any wonder he was a champion? I went out to dinner in late with a couple of guys who were national team veterans. Who calls them that? What was going on here? Obviously, like most jargon, he was showing an easy familiarity with the idea of competing in the Olympic Games, something beyond what most of us at the table could only dream of.
Tone is particularly important for coxswains. But so is the tone with which commands are given. The tone should not be panicky or nagging or wordy or emotionless. Commands need to be crisp, authoritative, and precise.
I coached a coxswain once who could not get this right. Her voice was always monotone. You never should count above Above all else, once you have moved beyond the novice stage, coxing is about using your authority properly. Vary the tone and the volume with which you speak to your crew. Roll her in Rowers bring boat down towards waterside from over their heads. For optimal rowing, you should spend longer on the recovery than you do on the draw.
Sitting the boat is an active process — if the boat is tipped down towards your side, lift your hands, if its tipped up at your side, lower your hands and the boat should come level. Why should you bother to sit the boat? If you hear this warning look around to the side and pull your blade in if necessary. Stop rowing but keep your blade off the water , and the boat will drift along. DROP Drop the blade flat onto the water after easying, the boat will slow down a bit.
Square your blade in the water and hold it there. Normally this means stroke side turning their blades to back it down and bow side rowing as normal. Coming in to land — Cox may tell you to take the run off on one side of the boat e. You should not carry out the command until you hear the word Go, that way everybody changes together and we look professional. If the command applies to only some of the boat then they will be specified before the command.
Again, this is designed to minimise any disruption to the line of the boat, otherwise the cox has to mess about with bow or 2 again so that you can move off in the right direction. A fast, co-ordinated response is essential. Similarly, your cox is there to steer your boat. The river is very narrow at points and it can be difficult to get boats moving in opposite directions past each other. When boats have stopped, current and wind can blow them across the river, into the bank, into trees or at an angle into the path of oncoming traffic.
The Americans spell "Way Enough" as in 'enough motion' as "weigh enough. Let her run : not a synonym for "way enough. Either let the boat run, or check it down depending on whether you saw the bridge abutment in time. Oars Across : what the Americans say when they really mean "Starboard [or port] oars run out" before getting into the boat.
Athwart : as in: "Athwart you said to take the stroke count up. They don't allow cannons in most regattas anymore though, and you can forget about seeing any whales either; it just means the top edges of the side of the hull.
Rudder gudgeon : the tube through which the rudder pintle comes up through the keel, and whose other function is to allow the aft buoyancy tank slowly to fill with water. Blister : a bad word. Crab : a very bad word. CoxBox : Hey! You'd kiss your mother with that mouth? Skeg : the flat thing which sticks down from the hull in front of the rudder to provide turning leverage. Useful for bashing into floating tree limbs and underwater obstructions.
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