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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

It isn't clear to me what ratio refers to.

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?

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

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!!!

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?

can you do a video on bowloaders please? I find them so much different to stern loaders as 4+ and 8+.

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