Broken Oars Podcast

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My cousin Cath passed away recently, following Ovarian Cancer.

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'Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, we're so glad you ...

Why is Broken Oars Podcast the world's best rowing podcast (Crossy's Corner excepted ...)?

Because no other podcast can move from grumping to an analysis of the status statement piece that is the Skillrow to the emancipation of rowers in the South East of England to the Wombles to the Second World War and escapism for wounded minds with such grace, elan and diablerie. 

And we would take the time to point out that whilst not ex...

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The Posh Southern one heads o...

Your Northern correspondent returns with the third and final chapter (and last word on rowing technique and rowing well). What some are calling a work of timeless genius, others are calling how you move a boat and yet more are calling what happens when you let a Northerner on the mic without the calming presence of a Southern Overlord, this is the third instalment of the original two-part series.

Another writer might have titled ...

Ladies and Gentleman,

When we're in the presence of greatness, we sometimes do one sentence introductions, like this:

Harry Brightmore - World Champion, GB Men's Eight.

And to be honest, we could leave it there and we'd be justified in doing so.

But we can't, and it isn't just because the Northern One who writes our episode descriptions has a tendency towards sesquipedalian logorrhea (Leave him alone! He's bought these word...

After the doom and gloom of the Doping in Rowing episode, Broken Oars Podcast returns with a spirit-lifting, life-affirming perfect episode and a spirit-lifting life-affirming guest to accompany the start of a new season - a time of new resolutions, new energy, and new adventures.

Tony Larkman is one of the best coaches currently working - as well as being a fierce competitor to boot. His training plans are legendary for deliveri...

Usually Broken Oars Podcast returns with a spring in its step and a song in its heart - we love doing this podcast, because we get to do what every rower everywhere does when they're in the company of another rower: talk about rowing, and rowers, and water, and boats, and training, and racing, and cake, and seals, and otters, and ... when we were at Agecroft ...

When we were in the war ...

Shut up, Granddad. Get hep to the ne...

Broken Oars Podcast is, for all of the back-and-forth of Lewin and I about North and South, fundamentally apolitical.

You row, we row, we all row together.

We take and give ribs and jibes in good heart because we believe that the things that unite us as friends, and in a wider context, as people, as communities and as a country number far more than any differences we may have.

We believe in discussion, in compromise, in agree...

Your dynamic duo return with an episode heralding the new season. Lewin (The Southern One) talks about the David Villers memorial 2k, letting slip that he at 46 can come within one second of what Aaron (The Northern One) could do at 36 - damn his freakishly freakish genetics. We talk of salmons and seals, establishing that not only was Henry Williamson a Fascist, but he knew nothing of the salmon Jurgen Grobler lurking off Tynemo...

The Northern One, or as we like to call him when he's writing the podcast blurb, the technically flawless one, returns with Part Two of An Alien's Guide to Rowing Well - The Revenge. This Time He's Back, and He's Read the Manual.

You know the premise - if aliens capable of travelling interstellar distances in spacecraft capable of warping our perc...

For your delight and delectation, the Northern One of Broken Oars Podcast offers a from the ground-up look at the basics and essentials of moving a boat well.

Given that every rower who as ever rowed knows exactly how to row a boat and it isn't what everyone else is doing but them, this represents Broken Oars creating a hostage to fortune ...

... but given that hostage is Northern, he is therefore expendable, as many Northerner...

We return with a quick one after the wonder and glory that was Small Ergs, Big Dreams.

Did you really think that we'd quit?

We're rowers. The word 'quit' is not in our dictionary. In fact, owing to a tragic accident any words between 'twizzle' and 'zygotic' are not in either of our dictionaries. We possess, in fact, highly selective dictionaries.

In this episode, Lewin takes the coastal shilling and argues that going nautical...

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We're blessed on this podcast.

We get to talk about the sport we love with the best and the brightest in the business. We've met heroes and heroines. We've been privileged to hear not just about lives...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, to celebrate our second birthday, we return in the company of a man who made us both wish we had a time-machine, so we could go back and either row for him or with him.

We are ta...

It's fitting as we approach the summer blockbuster season that we return with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) vs. Pete. We only know one Pete, and that's the inimitable, the incredible Pete Brewer - a man among men and a God among coaches.

So there's only one winner really. All together now (to the tune of Seven Nation Army):

Oh, Pete, Peter Brewer. Oh, Pete, Peter Brewer ...

But seriously, as we approach two years in the podcast bu...

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We ran a poll asking if you'd still listen if we branched out from just being the world's best rowing podcast to talk about other things.

You said yes, you'd still listen.

We ran another poll a...

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Ladies, Gentlemen, children of all ages ...

The only rowing podcast that matters (apart from all of the others) returns - and it does so to celebrate all that is great and good about Henley Royal...

In a new BrokenOars Indoors series we will be going through some of the best (and the worst) training programs out there for indoor rowing (and rowing). The first, whilst no means perfect, is one of the best. The (old) Concept2 UK Indoor Rowing Training Guide V2.

Download here -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19h3RpbMkNhsfOt5jl3BljV0vGWjn1Fe0/view?usp=sharing

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