Coaching
Coaching is provided on a structured basis to all the main groups within the club from juniors to seniors, and also to others outside those groups as required. A development group of members new to rowing also benefits from coaching. The club continually invests resources developing new coaches through to the relevant NVQ national coaching qualifications — giving us around twenty coaches in all.
See details of all our coaches.
Paid coaches are provided for the following groups, with the main coach shown:
- High Performance Programme — Des Atkins
- World Class Start — Julie Edwards
- Senior Men — Dan Johnson
- Senior Women — Helen Bloor
- J14-J18 men — Martin Kay
- Workplace Health — Perse Wynn
- Novices — Canice O'Reilly
If you are interested in joining one of these squads, you can contact the relevant coach via the coaches page.
Training Weekends
The club runs occasional weekend training camps during the winter. These have been run with various objectives, some to provide particular attention to a squad and others to bring outside coaching skills to the club. Most recently the club benefited from the expertise of Filipe Salbany.
Training Camps
About 30–50 club members attend training camps each year. The senior men, senior women, high performance and sporting giants groups usually go to mainland Europe for a week at Easter time. This has been to the rowing centre at Hazewinkel (see also Wikipedia entry), Belgium, for the last few years. Past training camps have been at Club Nautique de Château-Gontier Aviron in Chateau Gontier, France; Club Nàutica Amposta in Amposta, Spain; and Henley-on-Thames, UK.
2009's Easter club training camp was in Soustons, near Biarritz in France, with senior men, senior women and veterans crews all joining in.
It is also a time for the whole group to come together and share the pain and the fun.
It is an event well worth the amount of time it takes to organise and one enjoyed by all.......hopefully!
Mini Heads
Over the course of the winter season the club runs “mini heads” about once a month. One of these mini heads replaces a normal weekend training outing and gets all the club out on the river at the same time to race each other under head race conditions. We also encourage other local Nottingham clubs, such as the students, to join in. Crews usually gather at Grove Farm and are then set off in expected speed order (slowest first), and race from Clifton Bridge to Trent Bridge. This is an excellent training session giving realistic head race practice, and a good club occasion.
