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  Coaching coxswains

  Posted by Rebecca on February 18, 2024 at 9:23 pm

  My eyes were opened to how hard it is to coach coxes when you (as the coach) have not been a coxswain yourself. A third year college student wrote a book, which I helped her publish called “Coaching the Coxswain – a guide for the coach who has not coxed”.

  She opens the book with this

  Why Your Cox Isn’t Doing What You Want Her to Do

  Nothing frustrates you more than telling someone perfectly clearly what to do and then watching the person flounder around and not do it. You told your third-year coxswain to take the second full arch from the left under Columbia Bridge and then watched helplessly as the boat went through the third arch. You asked your novice coxswain to start rowing with stern six, watched the boat sit there for forty seconds, and then, in the interest of time, just made the call yourself. Can’t these people count? If they could only learn to pay attention to your instructions, they could become much better coxswains, so what seems to be the problem?

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