[CUCBC Coxes] Monday 23rd - Coxing 'seminar'

[Robert Nimmo]

Dear coxes list,

As promised, the three sets of slides from yesterday evening should be
attached.

Esther can be contacted at esther.momcilovic at gmail.com
James can be contacted at james.tidy at googlemail.com
I can be contacted at robert at cucbc.org (or, you know, hit reply!)

James will send round the list of recordings discussed in a few days when
he's had a chance to collate them. Feel free to contact any of us about
town clubs. We'll all (try and) provide a relatively unbiassed assessment
of which clubs might suit your preferences.

I hope last night was at least some use to some of you. As I said at the
start, this is something of an experiment as a way of providing a bit more
support to coxes in Cambridge. If it was useful, I'd like to see it as
something which could be run once or twice a term, but I don't believe for
an moment that we've hit on the ideal format at the first attempt. Please
do get in touch if you have any feelings about aspects which were useful,
aspects which could be done better, and aspects which were just a waste of
everyone's time. If you'd like it run again, what would you like discussed
then? Did the questions/chat format for the second half work? Would it be
easier in smaller groups? Are we a bunch of pretentious windbags in love
with the sound of our own voices? (Probably yes - we wouldn't still be
coxing if at some level we didn't like talking...) We all would like to see
the general standard of coxing improved in Cambridge by any means
practical, so we really won't take offence at critical feedback.

See you on the river, and all the best this term,

Robert

On 23 January 2017 at 11:41, Robert Nimmo <robert at cucbc.org> wrote:

> Dear coxes list,
>
> Following on from various requests for clarification, the meeting will be
> in the Old Divinity School building, which is opposite St John's College,
> and has an entrance just off All Saints' Passage. (This thing -
> https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/divinity-school-1). It's where the Mays Bumps
> briefings were held last year.
>
> Hope that clarifies and apologies to the various people I've recieved
> confused e-mails from over the last few days,
>
> Robert
>
> On 20 January 2017 at 14:01, Robert Nimmo <robert at cucbc.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear coxes list,
>>
>> CUCBC will be hosting a relatively informal event this Monday for any
>> college coxes looking to try and improve their coxing this term. We'll be
>> meeting at 7pm in the Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre.
>>
>> Ideally, every cox would receive individual coaching, the same way most
>> rowers do, but from talking to various clubs over the last few months most
>> simply don't have enough experienced coxes with sufficient spare time to
>> make that a reality. (Kudos to the clubs which do - you lucky so and sos.)
>>
>> In place of that (slightly impractical) ideal, some of the more
>> experienced former college coxes still in Cambridge have kindly agreed to
>> speak briefly about an aspect of coxing which they think will help improve
>> coxing on the Cam. After that, we'll aim to break into smaller groups for a
>> much less structured chat. The idea behind that chat is to provide a venue
>> for less experienced coxes to raise any issue they're looking for advice on
>> or having problems with. While that's never going to be as good as direct
>> one-to-one attention on the water, it will provide an opportunity to learn
>> from the experiences (and mistakes) of others.
>>
>> The session is planned as pretty informal, so if people need to run at
>> any stage, feel free. Otherwise, we'll stay and chat as long as there are
>> people who want to. Again, from talking to various captains last term, this
>> is primarily aimed at less experienced coxes (in their first year or two or
>> coxing), but is open to anyone who wants to come along.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>
>
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