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YogiB
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Written by YogiB
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The absolute WORST part of coxing is cutting weight. By far. I can deal with annoying rowers and I have learned to deal with team drama and all that other cr*p. I find myself wishing more and more that I could trade metoblisms with someone who has one that moves at the speed of light or trade bodies with someone who is built much smaller than myself. Anyone know someone willing to trade and someone who will do the operation? What do you guys thing the worst part of coxing is? Never forget to fight. Ever. (I wish I could say never forget to eat!) ~YogiB
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| Submitted by QLQ (
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The worst part of coxing is siting in a stern loader, calling a sprint at the end of a race, and watching the pain on your stroke seats face as he lets out an agonizing cry and pulls harder for you.
seriously. I hate that. I wish I could just make their pain stop and say, "Ok! paddle!! good job guys" but I can't, because they love it so much. goodness knows why. stupid masochists.
| | | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by YogiB (
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) on 2004-03-16 00:30:32 | Comment:
hahahha. Yeah, that sucks too. I just sit so low that I don't have to look at any of them. (bonus is that it looks really intimidating.)
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-03-16 04:56:37 | Comment:
Whilst reading through the ARA coaching handbook (very bored) I found the section on coxing and it said "any cox that weighs race wieght has the right to demand perfect strokes from every rower every stroke".
- something to think about all you rowers that demand we weigh exactly race weight-
The worst part about coxing is the feeling of self doubt you get when things go wrong. And the fact most of my clothes smell like river.
-JL
(has had so many usernames i've run out of email addresses)
| | | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by coxicle (
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Oh yes, there's nothing quite like the smell of nasty nasty river water in your morning classes...
~coxicle
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| Submitted by coxie (
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) on 2004-03-18 12:26:01 website:http://www.coxie.com | Comment:
RE: What do you guys thing the worst part of coxing is?
Winter training - not as much fun without the boat.
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-04-08 17:14:24 | Comment:
The worst part of coxing is when you are coming down the final 500 and you are in the lead. You know your crew is dying, but you can see that big finish bouoy and you know how happy and grateful your team is going to be in just over a minute. And then the shtuff hits the fan. Your stroke starts to stagger and the rate drops. Three seat decides to catch a crab and can't roll it out. Or five seat gives up and just goes along for the free ride. You know if you just said the right thing, everything would right its self, and you would win like you were supposed to, but the only things that come to mind are, "they're walking on us." That is the worst part of being a coxswain. Watching your team falter and not being able to boost them back up is the hardest thing.
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| Submitted by lorgs (-) on 2004-06-09 18:27:34 | Comment:
No. The worst part of coxing is when you get bumped 5 strokes before the line, and you know that you could have saved them. They could have saved themselves too, if they'd rowed the way you've seen them row, but they can't act as individuals, they can only act as one entity. You can act as an individual, so the responsability is ultimately yours. That's the worst. The knowledge that, even if it isn't ALL your fault, you could have stopped it happening. Watching grown men cry, and not being able to do anything to make it better, because you weren't good enough to be the cox they deserved. I wonder if you ever get good enough to get past that.
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-06-12 14:10:23 | Comment:
the worst part of coxing is in winter training because sometimes i work out with my crew but sometimes there arent enough ergs or i have another job. So when the rowers are doing the exercises they get reallly frustrates and get mad at me when i try to encourage/critic them. Ijust want them to feel better but it really hurts my feelings. The only thing that gets me through it is the fact that the ice had to melt sometime!
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-06-27 21:47:20 | Comment:
the check.... i've been hospitalized once by it from a novice crew last summer.... the worst part by far is the check in a novice boat.... i vowed on that day never to cox another novice crew again....
| | | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-08-19 14:31:07 | Comment:
What happened??
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-07-08 20:17:51 | Comment:
The worst part of being a coxie is winning a race up until the 1500m mark and then suddenly the 2nd place boats starts moving on you and you spit out all your best motivational calls but you see that the other crew is just stronger and then your left with nothing let to say except for things like "Come on" and "Just push" because your uterally speechless.
| | | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-08-23 19:13:20 | Comment:
the worst part of coxing, to me, is (as i've recently experienced at RCHR) fighting for first place and the other crew takes the last stroke first and takes it by some small fraction of a second.
another few crappy things is the fact that our dock is always covered in goose shat and my clothes reik of it...ugh. oh well! i love it too much to quit!
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-09-12 20:16:04 | Comment:
you guys have some issues coxswain wise.. i personally dont even look at the stroke seat cause theres far more important things i.e. the course, opposition, crabbed rowers. if your staring at your stroke chances are your really pissing him off and he doesnt have the breathe to say STOP... just a tip from a good ol' pro.
| | | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-09-23 20:57:26 | Comment:
good job sellin that- your name is anonymous
| | Subject: Re: Worst part of coxing | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-09-29 21:58:55 | Comment:
maybe some of us care about how our rowers feel and know them well enough that they don't care if we stare at them as long as we don't hit the shore.
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-09-15 23:49:34 | Comment:
Two things: 1 getting a bruise on my back from the seat, and 2, rowing in April when it is freezing on the Niagara, and water getting in the seat and i'm soaked(because the water is iof course choppy), and freezing, then not being able to walk off the dock because by clothing is so wet and cold. gosh, i guess crew really sucks.
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