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RowingChat: Penny Chuter former Head Coach British Rowing & FISA Development Coach
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:02:25
Publish Date: 2017-10-08 17:18:07
Description: Penny was head coach of British Rowing and a forceful advocate for equal womens events at international FISA regattas. Her insights into athlete flow and patterns of movement are instructional for all students of Rowing technique and skilful movement of boats. Timestamps to the interview 01:00 Introduction and background in rowing 08:00 My whole life is surrounded by silver medals - as a coach and as an athlete. 10:00 Punting and coaching.   11:00 Open Skills and Closed Skills, Flow patterns in athletes - bound flow and free flow 18:00 How to spot bound versus free flow athletes - "Contained" or "Controlled" athletes 19:00 Seat racing when it's best to use 23:00 The international athletes who are free flow types 26.00 Teaching flow characteristics 30:00 ARA internationally how it was run before the British National Lottery funding 33:00 The selection process 49:00 Trials and selection boards - Pairs matrix, seat racing, long distance assessments in small boats 51:00 Cornish Pilot Gigs - coaching.  How to get the best out of this particular boat / crew 57:00 Underhand grip - a challenge to change technique 49:00 How to accelerate your learning - video review 55:00 FISA Fairness commission, the sexism in 1970s FISA and fighting for womens events 58:00 1987 Copenhagen World Champs were unfair.  Martin Cross complained and was over-ruled.  Then they introduced seeding based on Penny's lobbying. 60:00 Introduced athletes representatives and appeals panel and the FISA Athletes Commission
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