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You can watch all the finals of the 2012 USRowing Club National Championships, live on ustream.
The stream cast starts at 16:37h., Saturday, 14 July 2012 and will continue through the last race of the day, scheduled for 19:25h.
View the heat sheet here:
http://results.usrow...atHeatSheet.pdf
On Sunday, watch as the finals continue, with the first race scheduled to begin at 07:30h., Sunday, 15 July 2012, and will continue through the last race of the day, scheduled for 12:58h.
View the heat sheet here:
http://results.usrow...unHeatSheet.pdf
Link to watch the live stream:
http://www.ustream.tv/usrowing
GLRF is excited to announce a slight change in the layout and content for the Regattas + page.
We just launched a new blog devoted entirely to regatta and camp/clinic items of interest for our worldwide online community. Although it was too late to include for any meaningful use now, a good example would be the information on the live radio feed for the 2012 Royal Henley.
We'll be adding add blogs posts as we scour the internet and or receive emails, and of course, we're glad to get inputs from the GLRF community.
The blog posts will be fed, via RSS, to the GLRF Regattas + page so members and visitors alike can see the latest entries, and then click through for more information.
Over the past year, we've noticed more and more of the GoPro-produced rowing videos appearing on the GLRF Rowing Videos page. They are amazing to watch since they really give the viewer a sense of the joy and serenity in rowing.
We can see why they videos are exploding on YouTube - they don't hide any faults and coaches can use the videos to give their rowers immediate feedback. Sure, the videos from the launch are helpful but cameras mounted on the boat, using different rigs, can really put the spotlight on not just the stroke but any rower in any seat.
For those who don't know, the GoPro is the camera of choice for outdoor sensory video experience, be it mountain biking, surfing, or rowing, just to name a few. More and more rowing retailers like New Wave and JL Racing are providing kits for rowers, including the camera, the mounts, and the wiring.
This video of the French national team, Les Bleus, shows some of the many possibilities for camera angles:
Here is one of the most recent videos from the GLRF Rowing Videos web page, of some US juniors. We're not here to make fun of their technique but to show how immediate the feedback can be for the stroke in this quad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK_ALsYJb8g
The cameras are not inexpensive but wow, what a public relations and advertising tool, an incredible coaching tool, and even a race preview tool. Just mount the camera on the bow and row the course!
We certainly hope the current web management practices at British Airways are a result of sloppy query code in blocking websites and not a pervasive attitude towards the gay and lesbian community.
At a recent visit to the British Airways North Lounge, Terminal B, London Heathrow Airport, GLRF team members were surprised to find the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation website was blocked and labeled as "adult content."
In a tersely worded reply to the British Airways IT Administrator, GLRF Executive Director Brian Todd did not mince words in his view of the actions by the British Airways Information Technology department:
Of course, British Airways can take comfort in its societal views about the morality of gay and lesbian people, since the GLRF website is also blocked at all United States Apple Stores .... and at all Gold's Gym franchisees
The corporate world might do well to review their blocking and filtering programmes that deem their core customers and audiences "immoral" and "unacceptable" in public life.
http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/media/302/Rowing04_Photo_Eric_Lanuit.jpg Paris-based photographer and former rower Eric Lanuit has profiled rowers at a regatta in France in a 87-page photo essay in his online magazine, Character. The magazine, which is only published online, is almost entirely focused on the images and the emotions they create and the stories they tell.
warning: being a French publication, the content of the issues has no limits and does not recognize any taboos. “The only thing that matters are the aesthetics whether it is in the beauty or in the ugliness.”
The rowing photo essay borrows from the German rowing retailer New Wave’s clothing line ‘Rowing Nothing Else.’ The images share a vivid sense of the feeling of the dedication and gritty reality of rowing. Any rower looking at the images will instantly relate to the feeling of camaraderie and closeness that rowers feel, in an almost remote and unknown connection from the perspective of an outsider.
If you’re looking for lots of skin, massive muscle, and revealing shots of junk, you won’t find it here. Rather, the essay gives a peek behind the curtains of the reality of rowers, http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/media/302/Rowing02_Photo_Eric_Lanuit.jpg their body language, and their often scruffed appearance and their focus on rowing while not preening and posing for the camera.
The title of the essay is perfectly chosen and the images depicted are just that. The images were shot over the course of one day on Sunday, 15 May 2011 at the Régates de Masse (Masses Regatta) in Mantes-la-Jolie (approx. 34 miles or 55 km west of Paris), at the Stade nautique international Didier-Simond de Mantes en Yvelines.
The rowers featured in the photo shoot vary in age: some are juniors, some are university, and some are senior rowers from a number of teams and clearly more than one country! French photographers have the luxury of being free of the American legal system and can more freely capture their subjects without fear of liability or retribution. They don’t have to get signed waivers …
Rowing Nothing Else appears in the 4th online issue of Character, issue 2, Fall 2011, Volume 2. To find the photo essay, you need to jump to page 60 (look for the 4th bar at the bottom of the flash player). If you prefer, you can page through from the beginning but you'll have to thumb through the essay of drawings on Bambi and The Bears ... (again, read the warning above).
For those who are not fluent in french, the text of page 63 reads: (and if our translation is lacking, then please help us refine it for other viewers!!!)
For those reading page 61, and who are unfamiliar with the Tour de Leman, it is a 160 km rowing endurance race that circles Lac Leman, otherwise known as Lake Geneva. The annual race is held at the end of September and can last up to 17 hours, depending on the weather. The best time recorded is 11hours:55minutes:19seconds.
Just across the wire: the Florida Rowing Center (FRC) has just posted the boats that will be available for sale at the end of the 2012 winter rowing season.
The idea behind the boat sales list is to encourage rowers to head down to FRC, enjoy some sweet sculling while trying out a variety of shells. Then you can put down a $500 deposit for the shell you want and pick it up or have it shipped to you in May 2012.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Florida Rowing Center, the boathouse is located on Lake Wellington in Wellington, a small village-like community 12 miles west of West Palm Beach, Florida. In case there are any rowers who don't fly in for weekends of caviar, champagne, and wild naked jacuzzi parties, the City of West Palm Beach is 48 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, 70 miles north of Miami, and 180 miles south of Orlando.
Perez Hilton recently reported on a new rowing movie currently in production, featuring Sarah Megan Thomas, James Van Der Beek and Glenn Morshower.
http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/media/300/sarahandjames_backwards.jpg
Perez gives a quick synopsis:
The article goes on to say the film is on location in Philadelphia. No doubt this has the Boathouse Row in an uproar. What we want to know is who is cleaning up the goose poop on the docks every morning? Certainly not James ...
IMDB shows the film is now in post production and is scheduled for a 2012 summer release.
Check out some of the pics and videos of the movie on the GLRF Gotcha! Gallery
Chicago Rowing Union recently had a write up in the local gay and lesbian newspaper, The Windy City Times. The article focused on the club's look back at their 2011 season, and helped to promote the club's end of season fundraiser, a black tie optional prom dance event, to be held this Saturday, 12 November 2011.
GLRF member @craigers provided the sound bites for the article:
If you're interested in attending, you can buy tickets online at the CRU website.
Read the full story at the Windy City Times website.
GLRF member @yankinbc aka Scott Larsen recently wrote an article for Vers magazine, an online magazine devoted to the GLBT community in Canada and it's supporters. He writes about one of three passions in his life: rowing. In the article, Scott reflects on rowing and the need for a gay and lesbian rowing community. Find the article here.
Having rowed in college, Scott Larsen feels the hunger to return to his passion after getting settled and happily married in Vancouver, British Columbia. Little does his husband know the destiny that awaits him as a rower's spouse ....
He has joined the Vancouver GLRF group, The Fantastic Foars, and has posted in both the GLRF United States and the GLRF Canada forums, hoping to meet and connect with other rowers.
