I found it at the last minute cost me £550 for everything incl boats, coaching, travel (flights etc), food, accomadation. To be it wasn’t high performance but you did get in the miles and we had two videos taken of us sculling.
http://www.rowcoach.co.uk/row.html
Is the website. The water was like the top right photo ALL THE TIME !!!
I really want a Stampfli ST1 but its a bit expensive like £5k…
But I am going to keep my feet on the ground and see if I can get a local club to “loan” me a scull. Unfortunately my university only likes boats bigger than 4- …idiots.
That’s a pretty good deal and if the water is like glass all the time that is unbelievable.
As far as boats go I personally want a fluid design or an empacher, but alas funding is definitely an issue.
I know what ya mean about big boats and universities wanting to row them. Keep in mind I’m in America where we focus pretty much only on 8+ and 4+ are considered small heh. We don’t even race 4- that much over here. That being said I’m lookin to race 2x but am having trouble with funding and joining a club (still looking for a job now that i’ve graduated college).
Side note I did get promoted to assistant varsity coach from developmental squad coach yesterday at the club I coach at and am also now the Strength Coach for the entire club so I guess that’s cool and it pays more.
I have a ‘Fluid Rower’ model FDR-02 from ‘First Degree’. I’ve had it about 4-5 years but have only recently dug it out of all the rubbish that had accumulated in the spare room. I’m hoping that someone is going to tell me that those models had a design fault with their /500m average pace (like it was double?!?)
Let me explain…
I used to do a bit of rowing training just for general fitness with a friend in work lunchtimes. We used the Concept 2 units in the local gym and from recollection I used to do about 2:15 average /500m pace (my friend just slightly slower but then he’s 20 years my senior).
Having got back on my Fluid Rower in the last 3 weeks I can’t get above about 3:30 pace and then only for about 30 seconds (admitedly I’ve let my fitness drop in recent times but I’m still of what I would term ‘average fitness’ for a 37 year old 5’11" 90kg guy.
I haven’t got around to trying a different type of rower at a local gym as a benchmark but wondered if anyone knows about the history of these units. I have a vague recollection that the company I bought it from told me it was a known error but I’m wondering whether that’s just wishful thinking/memories on my part.
Christofg - I can’t say I know of any defect in those as I haven’t tried them. I know some fluid rower models use standard measurement and not metric measurement so that could be a possible issue?
Other then that I’m not sure. Try doing 15 mins on it and write down your avg split/500 meters (hopefully your monitor calculates that for you) and then tell me the total distance you rowed at the end. I’ll see if the calculations work out or not.