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Cox Talks by Cat Sheffler
Registrace 10. 11. 2012
Coxswain, coach, and former walk-on cox. Coxing is hard! We don’t always receive a lot of coaching and we’re expected to pick up a lot of fine tune details on the fly. There’s a lot of great coxswain race recordings available these days, but what about the other 99% of coxing? How do you cox a practice? How do you prepare for a race? My channel is about all things coxswain, to help beginner-intermediate coxswains learn.
San Diego Rowing Club Juniors Program
Official SDRC Junior’s recruitment video!
Never rowed before? No problem! Our Junior’s novice team welcomes everyone to try this fun, unique sport and prepares brand new athletes to compete with teams from all over the country! Unlike other sports where early specialization is necessary to compete at an elite level, rowing provides an opportunity to anyone even without any athletic experience to be successful and competitive in this sport.
In addition to strength and athleticism, our team strives to build community, discipline, and mental fortitude. Rowing in the same boat means that athletes have to work together and rely on each other to be successful. Forge life long friendships as you push each other daily, travel to races, and compete!
We are looking for high schoolers and competitive 8th graders to join our Junior teams. Experienced high school rowers are welcome to join our varsity squad while those who have not previously competed will begin on our novice squads to learn the fundamentals and build strength conditioning.
In addition to rowers, we also need coxswains, a unique position in rowing best suited for smaller athletes. Coxswains are a crucial part of the team and are responsible for strategizing, steering, organizing their rowers, making technical commands and motivational calls, and executing the race plan. Because coxswains do not physically row the boat, and rather direct and encourage their teammates while steering, coxswains tend to be confident, astute, and small in stature. Coxswains are not required to do any of the physical activity required of rowers, but they are welcome to learn to row and workout with rowers during land workouts.
In women’s sports, rowing offers the most scholarships of any sport, and rowing can help get you into top universities either via recruitment or simply by showcasing the skills and dedication you embody on a rowing team.
For more information about our program, go to SDRCJRS.com
Email patrick@sandiegorowing.org with questions or to register
San Diego Rowing Club rows out of Mission Bay in San Diego, CA.
Never rowed before? No problem! Our Junior’s novice team welcomes everyone to try this fun, unique sport and prepares brand new athletes to compete with teams from all over the country! Unlike other sports where early specialization is necessary to compete at an elite level, rowing provides an opportunity to anyone even without any athletic experience to be successful and competitive in this sport.
In addition to strength and athleticism, our team strives to build community, discipline, and mental fortitude. Rowing in the same boat means that athletes have to work together and rely on each other to be successful. Forge life long friendships as you push each other daily, travel to races, and compete!
We are looking for high schoolers and competitive 8th graders to join our Junior teams. Experienced high school rowers are welcome to join our varsity squad while those who have not previously competed will begin on our novice squads to learn the fundamentals and build strength conditioning.
In addition to rowers, we also need coxswains, a unique position in rowing best suited for smaller athletes. Coxswains are a crucial part of the team and are responsible for strategizing, steering, organizing their rowers, making technical commands and motivational calls, and executing the race plan. Because coxswains do not physically row the boat, and rather direct and encourage their teammates while steering, coxswains tend to be confident, astute, and small in stature. Coxswains are not required to do any of the physical activity required of rowers, but they are welcome to learn to row and workout with rowers during land workouts.
In women’s sports, rowing offers the most scholarships of any sport, and rowing can help get you into top universities either via recruitment or simply by showcasing the skills and dedication you embody on a rowing team.
For more information about our program, go to SDRCJRS.com
Email patrick@sandiegorowing.org with questions or to register
San Diego Rowing Club rows out of Mission Bay in San Diego, CA.
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When to take the outside vs inside turn with another cox
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Gauging distance without a speed coach
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Q&A! "How can I tell how far we have gone without a speed coach?"
Diagnosing set problems from the coxswain seat
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Diagnosing set problems from the coxswain seat
Practice Coxing Video with Prompts
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Because coxswains can't get out and practice in a boat right now, I wanted to create a tool to help keep your skills active. This video will help you practice taking in information while keeping your dialogue constant, being flexible to race development, and using your calls. To utilize this tool, prepare yourself to actually cox out loud while watching it. Pretend this is a race and your boat....
Coxing a practice piece when up
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Going through some old videos so let me know what you guys are interested in! A couple concepts I would point out here are: being fine to start a little down, calling more ratio shifts (this boat struggled to keep rate down effectively), and keep the intensity up when you have open water.
Coxing a practice piece without other boats
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Coxing a practice piece without other boats
Coxing your first 2k: warm up area and stake boating
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Coxing your first 2k: warm up area and stake boating
2019 SDRC Women's A 8+ Master's Regionals
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2019 SDRC Women's A 8 Master's Regionals
Cox video East Bay Rowing Club Crew Classic 2019
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Cox video East Bay Rowing Club Crew Classic 2019
Head of the Charles course in 3 minutes
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Head of the Charles course in 3 minutes
Switching pairs and Calling Basic Drills
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Switching pairs and Calling Basic Drills
Steady State Practice Coxswain Recording
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UCSD Varsity 8 WIRA Grand Final 2015 Coxswain Recording
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UCSD V8 Covered Bridge Regatta 2015 Coxswain Recording
Thanks so much. This is so helpful and necessary. Learning by doing while great has its limitations. Thank You!
That docking tip about only oars touching the dock is good until theres nobody to catch you
Since this is a video for beginners, aiming for your blades to reach the dock is how you prevent running your bow into the dock.
It isn't clear to me what ratio refers to.
Ratio is the duration of the drive vs the recovery e.g. a 1:2 ratio means the recovery is twice as long as the drive. Typically, a ratio problem means the rowers are rushing their recovery. So when she's talking about "lengthening out" or "slower here", she wants the rowers to take longer in the recovery while keeping the drive the same.
I was going to add "pulling away from the pin at the end of the stroke", but you included it in the bonus-reel. There is also the possibility of people sliding forward too quickly and sitting at the catch momentarily, shifting their weight and causing the boat to fall. But I am curious why Starboard and Port is not used on this side of the Pond. Instead it is Stroke-side and Bow-side. Of course Stroke and Bow can be on either side and in Italian Rigged boats they are on the same side. But Stroke-side remains conventionally on Port side. It would be interesting to know where this difference arose from.
Great to see how close you kept the bouys to the boat. It really frustrates me when I see boats being steared for extended periods with the blades hovering over the bouys.
I have never heard calls to "walking" before. I imagine it is a reference to moving through another crew at a steady pace.
Lovely piece of work. It is even therapeutic to watch.
As a male I prefer technical calls that remind the crew to maintain their technique, especially as they are at their limit. Calls that remind them to keep their Length, Reach, Sharpness, clean finishes, releasing the boat and letting it run. But this is about motivationals calls, which cannot be reused without losing their impact. The best I heard was for a woman's crew as it was coming downing to final few hundred meters, in a close race and the Cox shouted, "FLY MY PRETTIES! FLY" ... it seemed to have an impact. I'd love to know if that was planned or was off-the-cuff.
That's so awesome im Humboldt inbound and they're very proud of the womens rowing team they won their division finals. I am excited to try for their novice team.
2:15 dang thats crazy cox's are like a charioteer with 8 people as horses on the water xD
Love this, great format! Was this at Lake Natoma by chance?
it was! WIRA 2015!
Hi Cat! New to rowing and will have to cox at some point. This is super helpful both for a potential cox but also as a rower.
If you do another video that would be fantastic
This is why I never take our channel markers for granted. It makes gauging distance soooo easy!
not relevant to this video but I've been really wanting to ask. how do you film races? is it a phone or a camera and how do you attach it to yourself? I have been wearing my phone in a waterproof cover round my neck but the film isn't very steady so I have been wondering about maybe attaching a little camera to my mic but I don't know what id use or how I'd do that.
gopro
@@cpt.lando333 thanks but do you wear it around your head or your chest?
@@sidney2738 either
@@cpt.lando333 thanks
just watching this race on mute for practice and i've realised you cox bare foot? is that a normal thing or something done in different places because at my boat club every cox does it in trainers, wellies or of course crocs no offense meant at all and this is an old video but i'm just wondering
will it be coached by cat?
This is amazing, I’m 3 years younger in middle school than the boat I’m coxing, after every session I would get yelled at, now I know my duties
It’s very difficult to cox a boat more experienced than you! I also got yelled at my novice year. But building trust goes a long way! If you show that you’re putting in the work to get better and you really care, and they can trust that you’ll keep the boat safe, the respect will come. Good luck!
when she said "die for me Kelly" I knew exactly how much she cared. awesome job. awesome cox.
how do you find you point in an 8
Same way as in a 4, you just can't exactly see past the heads of your rowers. I'd look for a point above their heads, or even stay parallel to the shore if it is straight, or if it's something directly behind them you can't see but that is the point you want, then not seeing it means you are pointed on it!
This is exactly the introduction I was looking for to teach our juniors as they each take a turn coxing this summer. Thank you for making this video!
Thank you! Hope it helps!
Who won?
I’m turning 13 and I’m doing rowing and I have a race coming and I’m cox so I’m looking for advice
REALLY GREAT! Thanks for this!
“Lock this bitch down.” Be my coxswain please
I’m here because I’m about to cox my second event with my new team and although we won our first this is a national event and I haven’t done one since rowing with my school boat club so fingers crossed that we will do well but so far the only advice I as the cox have had is ‘shout as loud as you can and make everyone take you seriously’ so I don’t know helpful that will be but we have done well at training recently so we should do okag
Where’d all the time go? I’m writing this more for myself but hi it’s been over a year since this comment and I’ve raced five national events since next season is ideally my big season it’s the Henley year the boat I was writing about here was my quad and we didn’t do great and we never have we’re the national average, dead middle of the table at every national event we’d done next season is the eight bring on Henley (this isn’t going to age well)
Oooo she sounds like a right see you next Tuesday
Thank. the. lords. I was looking at a different youtube video and someone in the comments said u were good for advice/tips. I recently became a coxswain and I’m pretty lost, I have the basics but when it gets down to the details I have no idea. I did my first regatta last weekend and it went okay considering how i had only coxswained around 5ish times so far, thank you so much I’ve been feeling so inadequate at practice lately
Hey Cat, Way back in the day, late 80s, I was a coxswain. We are racing an alumni boat at the end of the month at the Head of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia. Your videos are clear, full of information and a great refresher for me. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for posting.
God this is so helpful!!
Thank you so much!!
great intro and wonderful to see these perspectives from the 9th seat and launch. Having been both a rower and coxswain as a new master, it's really helpful to get this background. Scariest part at beginning was docking a boat on a windy day with novice rowers.
You are not talking at nobody.
congrats cat. you have made it to the big leagues. you are popular enough to have comment bots it looks like
Hahaha not me with less than 200 views on my last 2 videos combined 😂
hi! i’m wondering how do you know if someone in your boat should change their spacers? is there anything to look out for? thanks, this video was very helpful!
Hello! You could know if someone should change there spacers, by when they row if the oar goes above their chest or below. But if you really want to be sure. Have that one person go to the finish and square their blade. You should then know if they need to. :)
Good to see you back Cat, very useful tips thankyou.
YAY NEW CAT UPLOAD!!!
Crew is niche, Coxing even more so… unfortunate that CZcams is so based of subscribers for certain niche knowledge wells
Hey Cat! So I was a rower and now I’m a coxswain. I’ve only done it for a like 6-8ish full practices. I know my lines but there is this one coxswain that when taking the inside line, won’t go “full inside” if that makes senses. She never adjusts her line for other boats (and the coach doesn’t say anything. Maybe she is in the right I honestly don’t know!!) If I don’t go left of her, our boats will collide, but when I go left I get yelled at by my coach for going too far out. Any tips/ advice. We row on a river/lake so there are quite a number of turns and big rocks on our course. Thanks so much for your help!!!
Hey I’m not cat but I have coxed for 6 seasons and my best advice would just be to ask your coach what they prefer, every coach thinks differently and if you ask then they know that your trying💜
hi! I made a video answering this and will post it within 24 hours! thanks for watching :)
What did I learn? Coxing is like math: choose how to solve the problem, do it, and go with that… there are 5+ ways to solve and everyone wants it done differently, but if your teacher wants to teach a new way, learn the way, see if it works, and if it doesn’t well it only took a bit of time.
Great communication on the changes
so you talked about lengthening out a stroke by watching bow’s puddles and where it ended. how do you know if you should add more inches to a stroke? is there a specific length that bow’s puddle should end up on? thank you, i would really appreciate some feedback!!
This made me cry I loved it
Can you do a video on how to fix your boat when drifting in a quick efficient way because I don’t know why but it is hard.
I don’t have a speed coach or anything so is there a way to tell how far you’ve gone?
If you know your crew’s aproxímate time, you can time the race(every Cox box has a timer) and divide the time obviously it won’t be perfect, sometimes the rowers are pulling harder or their technique is better but it’s better than nothing. Also if you know the river well there are certain “landmarks” that you know are 100,500,1000,1500,2000m, etc.
can you do a video on bowloaders please? I find them so much different to stern loaders as 4+ and 8+.
And keeping bowloaders together please!
did you watch the Oxford-Cambridge boatrace?
Thank you! This was very helpful:)
Hi! Do you have any tips for seat racing? Also how do you know when to make your power calls?
This channel is great! I haven't found anything like it on CZcams yet
Thank you so much! I have never seen anything like it either and I know how useful it would have been when I was newer!