<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear coxes list,<br><br></div>As promised, the three sets of slides from yesterday evening should be attached.<br><br></div>Esther can be contacted at <span class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-m_-2337184254405003069gmail-gI"><span class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-m_-2337184254405003069gmail-go"><a href="mailto:esther.momcilovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">esther.momcilovic@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></span></div>James can be contacted at <span class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-gI"><span class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-go"><span></span><a href="mailto:james.tidy@googlemail.com" target="_blank">james.tidy@googlemail.com</a><br></span></span></div>I can be contacted at <a href="mailto:robert@cucbc.org" target="_blank">robert@cucbc.org</a> (or, you know, hit reply!)<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div><div>See you on the river, and all the best this term,<br><br></div><div>Robert<br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 January 2017 at 11:41, Robert Nimmo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@cucbc.org" target="_blank">robert@cucbc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear coxes list,<br><br></div>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 - <a href="https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/divinity-school-1" target="_blank">https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/divi<wbr>nity-school-1</a>). It's where the Mays Bumps briefings were held last year.<br><br></div>Hope that clarifies and apologies to the various people I've recieved confused e-mails from over the last few days,<br><br></div>Robert<br></div><div class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-m_-2337184254405003069gmail-m_-3123843341413304974HOEnZb"><div class="m_2114452125887216602gmail-m_-2337184254405003069gmail-m_-3123843341413304974h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 January 2017 at 14:01, Robert Nimmo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@cucbc.org" target="_blank">robert@cucbc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear coxes list,<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>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.)<br><br></div>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.<br><br>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.<br><br></div>All the best,<br><br></div>Robert<br></div>
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