Wednesday, September 8th, Glenn Merry, the CEO of US Rowing, will be at Community Rowing Inc. to talk about the NGB and host a roundtable discussion on the role of our National Governing Body in developing the sport.
COME ONE COME ALL! Refreshments and a great discussion on the future of our amazing sport!
Listen to our very own Jamie Hintlian and HOCR Fred Schock on Emily Rooney talking about the new Adaptive Event in the HOCR here:
20 New Adaptive Rowers arrived at CRI on Sunday morning, ready to take on the Charles River. New England Disabled Sports trailored down a variety of adapted bikes and hand-cycles from their perch on Loon Mountain in Lincoln, NH (nedisabledsports.org/) to join in the fun. With 10 CRI Volunteers and Coaches, two eights and eight singles launched off the sculling dock. Emma Preuschl, USParalympic Silver Medalist, rowed in the eight to demonstrate the proper stroke. Emma and Pam Fernandez, a Gold Medal Cyclist from the 2000 Sydney games spoke at a lunch sponsored by the Boathouse Deli! Many thanks to USParalympics for sending out the Paralympians and to Rob and Glenn and the crew from New England Disabled Sports for their partnership and enthusiasm!
REMINDER!
Head of the Charles singles entries are due by August 1st!
For more information, visit the HOCR website: http://www.hocr.org/competitors/onlineap.asp
CRI raked in the hardware last week during the youth competitive team trip to Oak Ridge, TN!
The team came home with 18 medals total, and finished 2nd in the overall points trophy, with the girls’ team finishing 2nd among women’s teams, and the boys’ team finishing 4th among men’s teams.
In recognition of our medal winners, the medal count was as follows:
BOYS:
-Silver in the Junior A 8+
-Silver in the Junior A 4+
-Bronze in the Junior B 8+
-Bronze in the Junior A 2-
-Bronze in the Intermediate 8+
GIRLS:
-Gold in the Junior A 1x
-Gold in the Junior A 2-
-Gold in the Junior A 4+
-Gold in the Junior A 8+
-Gold in the Junior B 8+
-Silver in the Junior A 8+
-Silver in the Junior B 4+
-Silver in the Junior B 2x
-Silver in the Senior Lwt 4+
-Bronze in the Senior Lwt 4+
-Bronze in the Junior A 2x
-Bronze in the Intermediate Lwt 2-
-Bronze in the Junior B 1x
Congratulations to these athletes and all who competed in the USRowing Club National Championships!
CRI rower Henriette Power is the Editor of the online “Literary Magazine for Your Ears,” Drum. CRI scullers recently narrated the passage from Kenneth Grahame’s “Wind in the Willows.” Listen to it online: Drum Literary Magazine.
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Deal of a lifetime. New boats being auctioned off on ebay.
See listings below:
7/12/10
I met Tom Darling and Dr. Igor Kurdenko a little past 9:30 a.m. for my third session of the Burdenko Method at the Boston Sports Club in Waltham. Dr. Burdenko had decided to break the three adaptive participants into two separate groups based on the differences in the level of their spinal cord injuries and the unique physical challenges that the three participants exhibit. The pairings broke down to John working individually with Dr. Burdenko, and Jason and David working together with Dr. Kurdenko.
John, me, was the first one into the pool. Dr. Kurdenko affixed water wings to my two hands and buckled a flotation belt around my waist. The first exercise in today’s session was the previously described “walking” from one side of the pool, first frontwards and then backwards. Next, Dr. Kurdenko wanted me to do side stretches, where a person lies on their side and extends one hand forward and the other down. Next I did hand push downs in the water.
The next sets of exercises were totally new ones. Dr. Kurdenko wanted to introduce me to water based sit-ups/crunches. I was instructed to lie on my back, and then to bring my hands up and over my head until I was in a sitting position. The first couple of times I tried this exercise weren’t exactly works of art. But after a few tries I got the coordination down and to my surprise I was actually doing sit-ups/crunches in the pool. The last time I performed an exercise like this was the day I got hurt.
The last exercise on the agenda was what Dr. Kurdenko referred to as “Jumping Jacks.” This exercise required me to float on my back and to swing my arms from my sides to a position over my head and then swing my arms back to my side. Again, the first several times were not exactly things of beauty. I kept shooting from one side of the pool to the other. But with some practice I got it down to where I could swing my arms from the side of my body over my head and then back down to the side of my body while staying in a stationary position in the water. This motion does simulate “Jumping Jacks, and again, I hadn’t done an exercise like this since the day I got hurt.
With 4,200 miles in front of him, George Cuddy will attempt to reach Portland (OR) on Saturday, August 28 after rolling through destinations like Niagara Falls, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Grand Teton (WY), Yellowstone National Park, and Sun Valley (ID).
Thanks to the generous support of many families and friends associated with Community Rowing, George will be visiting with various rowing organizations across America to help spread the word about CRI’s adaptive training and learn about other, similar programs.
Here’s an article about George’s upcoming adventure at the RAGBRAI in Iowa:
http://www.muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_2efc7240-92c7-11df-bcc7-001cc4c03286.html
You can follow George’s ride on his blog at:
http://thexcrideforcri.us/site/Welcome.html
You can also get twitter uptdates by following George at:
