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Education and Rowing in Great
Britain
Ryan Demaine
Headington School Oxford
Ryan Demaine• Director of Rowing Headington School.
• WJ 8+ gold at World Junior Championships ’10.
• WJ 2- gold at the Youth Olympics ‘10.
• Top rowing school at the National Schools Regatta ‘10.
• Information, Communication and Technology.
Views, philosophies and opinions expressed here are my own, not that of GB rowing or that of Headington School Oxford.
Contents – Education and Rowing
• Great Britain (English) Education System.
• Rowing in Schools and clubs.
• The talent pool.
• Challenges the Great Britain Rowing schools / clubs face.
• Culture and ethos of rowing.
• Communication.
• Core values and philosophies.
• The GB pathway.
• The rowing lifestyle.
We spent the whole war looking for the magic
technological bullet. We never found it. Battles
continued to be won or lost on the basic fighting
ability and courage of the man on the ground.
General William Westmoreland ‘A Soldier Reports’ (Vietnam Memoirs) 1981
English Education System• Structure:
ROWING
English School Education System
GCSE – General Certificate of
Secondary Education
GNVQ – General National
Vocational Qualification.
A-Levels – General Certificate of
Education.
GNVQ advanced – vocational A-
Levels in ‘applied subjects’.
2-3 AS units and 2-3 A2 units.
• Course work approx 20-30%.
• Units can be taken through the
course.
• Re-sits allowed.
Learning and Rowing
Skills
Competitive Rowing
Schools / Scullers Head
Exploration
Investigation
Play
National Schools
Henley
Sculling
Co-existMonth Accademic Domestic Season International Season
October Head of the Charles Potential Camp
The Armada Cup
November Early ID Trials
December GB Nantes Camp
January Exams
February February Long distance trials
March Schools Head
April Rowing camp Spring Assessments
May Exams National Schools Small boats assessment
June Exams Henley Final Trials
July Henley Final Trials
National Champs Coupe
August Wolrd Junior Championships
Where is the talent pool?
Independent Schools
• Generally rowing
schools.
•Extra curricular or
part of the
curriculum.
• Higher academic
expectations.
• Fee paying parents.
• Social pressures.
State Schools
• Generally club based
rowing.
•Schools would not
know or understand
pressures.
• Depending on school,
rowers would have to take
greater ownership.
• Financial stress?
• Social pressure.
Where is the talent pool?
• World Class Start Program & Sporting Giants.– Talent Identification program
“Building future Olympians”
1. IDENTIFY TALENT – in non rowing schools / other sports clubs.
2. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT – tests: Arm Span, Height, power etc.
3. TECHNIQUE – GB technical rowing document.
4. PHYSICAL TRAINING – develop capacity to train safely.
5. PERFORMANCE/ CAREER – lifestyle. Time management. School liason. Academic support. Family liaison.
6. PERFORMANCE EDUCATION – Nutrition, hydration, physiology etc.
7. PATHWAY TO OLYMPICS – Motivate, support, guidance?
Challenges
“Know your enemy”
Challenges in Schools in the UK
Social Challenges
41,325 girls under 18 in England
and Wales fell pregnant in 2008, a
drop of 13%, but the government
target was 50%
• Parties / Clubbing
• Relationships – good / bad?
• Peer Pressure: Talk rowing.
• Girls / Women’s rowing.
“Rowing is the ultimate get out of
anything clause”. – Lily Van Den
Broecke (Cox of worlds eight).
What is “Cool”?Drinks: The Independent: 18th February 2007.
Drugs: The Guardian: 30th December 2009.
Smoking: Cancer Research Foundation: 2008.
Teen drug treatment by substance, 2005-09
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Cannabis 9043 10824 12021 12642
Alcohol 4886 7039 8589 8799
Cocaine 453 655 806 745
Heroin & other opiates 881 755 651 547
Solvents 210 301 305 284
Other 174 183 241 270
Amphetamines 332 323 346 229
Ecstasy 325 432 438 210
Crack 200 137 155 110
Total 16504 20649 23552 23836
% Change 25.12% 14.06% 1.21%
Stereotypes and Perceptions
The Perceptions are not reality!
VS
Media; In school common roomsOn TV – adverts,
movies, the radio; Western Image.
Stereotypes and Perception: The
Reality?
PressuresNov J13s J14s J15s J16s Snrs
2010 28 30 24 12 9 7
2009 30 23 20 8 8 8
2008 48 42 19 10 10 6
2007 34 32 26 12 10 10
2006 32 28 26 5 5 4
2005 30 29 26 8 3 2
2004 34 32 30 16 2 1
33.71 30.86 24.14 10.43 6.43 4.57
2.86 6.71 13.71 4 1.86
Rowing and Education in the UK Events VS Exams
Exams & peak rowing events
Schools Head (March)
National Schools Regatta (May)
Henley Regattas
Are these really challenges to Rowing
Or is rowing a pathway to shaping a better lifestyle.
Culture of Rowing and Education
Independent Schools State Schools
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
EDUCATION
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
TRAINING
Communication
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
EDUCATION
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
TRAINING
National rowing
Federation
Philosophy and ValuesCoach or Rower: values and philosophies, known or unknown
are prevalent.
•FISA’s core values: • Team work: the common goal.
• Educational: Self discipline, motivation and commitment to fair play.
• Focus: the ultimate objective
• Traditional: shared experiences to future generations.
• Environmental: Respect and safeguard the water and its surroundings.
• Global, Influential and Ethical.
•Values improve the experience.
•Values allow goals to be achieved.
•Values foster personal growth.
Rowing
Discipline
Goals
Commitment
Motivation
Team work
and
interdependence
Independence
Self Awareness
Achievement
Disappointment
Leadership
Rowing Values:
Through core
development of these
These values are
developed
Culture / ethos of rowing
and high performance.
The GB Pathway: RowingThe GB Pathway: Rowing
Philosophy – your view can dictate the outcome.
Values can contribute to the means by which you attain your goals.
Coach and athletes – challenged by this process.
The GB Junior Rowing pathway:The GB Junior Rowing pathway:
The GB Junior Rowing pathway:The GB Junior Rowing pathway:
Why is it successful in Great Britain?Why is it successful in Great Britain?
COMMUNICATION
and
DIRECTION
Strategy
meeting and
document
All events:
Emailed
instructions.
Briefing
Ultimately, it is a clear structure for all coaches, rowers and parents.
-Coaches know their role and tasks from the outset.
-Coaches respect the “chain of command”.
-Because it comes from Jurgan Grobler and lead coaches NOT
from “back-bech managers”.
Communication and discussion is key. Ultimately someone has to
make a decision and this needs to be respected.
Successful rowers and coaches have an awareness of Scale Scale –– Does winning at Nat. Schools always mean that you are Does winning at Nat. Schools always mean that you are
ready to take on the World?ready to take on the World?
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
The Junior ‘Pathway’
?? Participation, Competition, High Performance ??
� Participation: Club group, wide base?
� Competition: Domestic Racing?
�Local Regattas
�Regional Championships
�British Indoor Rowing Championships
�National Schools/National Championships
� High Performance: GB Trials
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
Aims of GB Junior Rowing?
� Specific Role: Performance Success
� To provide rowers to the U23 and Senior Teams
� To be the most successful Junior Rowing Nation
� To be as high up the Medal Tables as possible
� To send as full team as possible
� To educate as many juniors as possible in the
sport of Rowing – ‘Traditional’ Route
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
GB/France Match
� J16 Match – used to be Anglo/French Match
� In past = North + South Teams
� GB = Domestic and International J16s
� Club combinations (except the VIII)
� Became GB Event in 2001
� Team event
� Always full team:
- JM: 8+, 4+, 4-, 2-, 4x, 2x, 1x, sp 1x (28)
- JW: 8+, 4-, 2-, 4x, 2x, 1x, sp 1x (23)
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
Coupe de la Jeunesse
� 1985 = First event
� Team Event over two days
� 12 member Nations
� 2010 > 350 Juniors racing
� GB have won the overall event 11 times
� (France: 8 times; Italy: 6 times)
� Team event
� Always ‘full team’ from GB:
- JM: 8+, 4+, 4-, 2-, 4x, 2x, 1x, spare (23)
- JW: 4-, 2-, (8+), 4x, 2x, 1x, spare (14)
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
World Junior Championships
Pre 1985 = FISA Junior Regatta
� 1985 = World Junior Rowing Championships
� 2010 - 67 Nations
- 13 Events
- 216 Entries
- 680 Competitors
� Team selected according to performance
� Max. team size:
– JM: 18 + 7 (8+, 4+, 4-, 2-, 4x, 2x, 1x)
– JW: 14 + 7 (8+, 4-, 2-, 4x, 2x, 1x)
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
JWC Summay of Placings 2000 - 2010
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2- 8th 9th 5th 7th 16th 12th
JM
4- 14th Silver 7th Bronze Gold Gold 5th Gold Silver
2+
4+ 5th 4th 9th 5th Silver 7th 9th Silver 5th 14th
8+ Bronze Bronze 8th Gold 10th 8th 4th 7th 5th Silver 5th
1x Gold 19th 27th
2x 4th 7th
4x 13th 6th 12th 5th 6th 4th
2- 5th 10th 9th
JW
4- 4th 6th 4th Silver 6th Bronze 6th Bronze Silver
8+ 6th Bronze Gold
1x 9th 4th 12th
2x 6th 9th 5th
4x 6th 8th Bronze 10th
GB Rowing:GB Rowing:
Support for Junior Rowing
�Funding
- Lottery, SportsAid, Local Council
- Schools’ Head/National Schools’ Regatta (??)
- Kitchin Society (??)
�Subsidy: Camps, Events
�Loan of Boats
�Education
�Training Days/Camps
The link between rowing and
education?
Good systems are born out of passionate, dedicated coaches,
athletes and parents.
The schools impact – driven or supported?
Coaches need to be teachers!
“THE WAY YOU TRAIN IS A REFLECTION AS
TO HOW YOU WILL RACE”
“THE WAY YOU LIVE WILL AFFECT HOW
YOU TRAIN”- Warren Boltler (‘96)
Observation of the JUNIOR Medallists
•Self-disciplined and organised. Able to balance/prioritise a high volume and quality of training with academic/work and social pressures.
•Able to take responsibility for their health, well-being and recovery.
•Able to set and maintain high standards, especially over and above those set and practised by others around them.
•Able to deliver when it really matters and produce performances on the day that can surprise even them!
•An ability to balance their international aspirations with their club/school programmes
An unrelenting, defiant and resolute selfAn unrelenting, defiant and resolute self--belief belief
that they can succeed in their dreams.that they can succeed in their dreams.
This can make them CHALLENGING to work with!This can make them CHALLENGING to work with!
LIFESTYLE / PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN SUCCESSLIFESTYLE / PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN SUCCESS
Communication
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
EDUCATION
HOLYSTIC
INTERGRATED
APPROACH TO
TRAINING
“If you win the hearts and minds of the
people, you win the war”- James Briggs
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to
war, while defeated warriors go to war first
and then seek to win.”-SunTzu: The Art of War
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