Twatswatter
Posted by officerincivvies on June 17, 2009
If you like Dave Matthews Band you are what is wrong with this world. Someone has a difference of opinion as you and you feel personally attacked instead of dealing with the bigger issue: you listen to shitty music!
Well I sure have been busy the last few weeks with school, work, and rowing. I managed to get a new PB on the 2K erg test, 6:45.4. It is ok but I know I slacked a bit and I think that I could get around 6:39. Only 20 more seconds till I am in the competitive range for Worlds. We are going to Calgary next week for the Alberta Opens; I will be racing there in a single.
I hate coaching adults. Adults do not listen, they think they know everything so there is no point in coaching them. Adult Recreational rowers are the worst. Not only can you not coach them, they don’t do anything you tell them. If you do tell them something they just question you, and if it is not something to prevent them from getting hurt they won’t do it. They don’t care about the club’s equipment, going faster or other rowers in their boat.
Americans also like to be different in every way, even in rowing. In rowing there is a category called Novice which is for people who have only rowed for a year or less. That category is standard around the world, that is except for America. Novice rowing there is for people who have only been at university for a year. This means you can have olympians in the novice boat, such as the two german medalists in the University of Washington Novice 8+.
Of course Americans also call rowing, “crew”. They say they do “crew” and that they are on the “crew team” (which is a contradiction since the word crew implies you are on a team already). UDub does this, Cal Berkely does this and so do the Ivy League schools like Princeton (just to give a few examples).
Well I need to go hack up an old 8+, pics for that will come soon.
