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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Broken Oars Podcast returns with Episode 7 – a Fosbury Flop of an effort to match the impossibly high bar set by our recent guests Sir Terence of Chipchase and Sir Peter of Brewer.
(You haven’t listened to Episodes Five and Six yet? Shame on you! Download them now! You know it makes sense. After all, those 3 x 6k’s will go far easier with some quality listening material in your headphones).
After the wonderful ramble through the highways and byways of rowing undertaken by Terence and the ‘guys, here’s how a grown adult talks: in complete, well-thought through paragraphs’ common-sense, inclusive vision of rowing as a sport for all offered by the inimitable Pete, we’ve reverted to type: your genial hosts, Lewin (posh, well-educated, southern) and Aaron (northern, dragged up, barely literate) saying stuff about the wonderful sport about rowing that might be considered libellous if anyone actually listened to us.
It starts well. For the first time in the podcast’s history, Lewin rather than Aaron suffers the now-traditional biweekly injury and in a controversial move the Broken Oars Podcast begins the campaign to rehabilitate Lance Armstrong back into polite society on the grounds that in a world gone mad (der), his complete and utter unrepentance and blunt acknowledgement that he would do it all again if given the chance offers a refreshing change to the cant, hypocrisy and fudging offered by most cheats and bullshit artists when they get caught.
Controversy nimbly provoked, we declare our keywords for the now-traditional Thames Tradesmen’s Broken Oars Podcast Drinking Game. Anyone with the words Frodo, Anduin, and Slaine the Avenger is in for a heavy night. Lock up the cat. Cancel all calls.
And then, housekeeping done, we get stuck into the main topic of discussion: who would make it into our fantasy rowing eight.
Now, if you know us, and you’ve listened to us before you know that we take this sort of thing incredibly seriously. Broken Oars Podcast’s Episode Four discussed Britain’s Coxless Fours triumphs through the ages in such forensic detail that British Rowing actually asked for a copy of the tape; and our comments on the relative merits of genuine giants of the sport split opinion to the point where oarsmen who won their Olympic gold medals in the same boat no longer speak to each other.
But being us, our calm, measured approach to a question deserving both rapidly descends into a welter of claims, counter-claims, questionable humour, a discussion of the cars in the Henley Royal Regatta carpark; why dyslexics rarely hang out together (we both are: we never see each other); rowing as a quest narrative; and what really, when you get right down to it, constitutes a fantasy rowing eight.
In the process, Aaron make claims for the necessity of opposable thumbs in a five-man; Lewin makes a case for why Anna Watkins should be in the boat with such passion that he calls her Anna Williams; we both ask whether singing ability is an accurate measure of rhythm and timing when it comes to rowing (hint: no); and ask the serious and pertinent central question: if James Cracknell makes the boat, will his seat have to be able to accommodate the camera crew and production company that will film the inevitable accompanying miniseries?
And does his hair deserve its own seat?
All of this?
And it’s out in time for the weekend?
Get some!
Front six rowing on, bow pair, out – of the boat, the crew and our lives. Swim home.
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Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 68: Sir Matthew Pinsent
Episode 67: Lucy Denyer on Life, Random American Living and Returning to Rowing at York
Episode 66: Professor Andy Lane, the world's greatest sports psychologist on mental strategies, automating psychological interventions and how many guitars are enough?
Broken Oars Podcast: Episode 55: The Great Australian Roundtable!
Broken Oars Podcast: Cath
Broken Oars University: Module One: Infinite Stories - Narrative in the Age of Constant Content Creation
Broken Oars Podcast, Episode 49: The Technogym Skillow Review - The World’s Best Rowing Podcast Returns
Podbean review of Indoor Rowing YouTube Channels
Broken Oars Technique Clinic: An Alien’s Guide to Rowing Well - Part Three
Broken Oars Podcast, Episode 48: Harry Brightmore: From Chester to World Champion ... and Beyond.
Broken Oars, Episode 47: Tony Larkman - ’Everything is Difficult Before it Becomes Easy.’
Broken Oars, Episode 46: Christopher Bailey, His Positive Test, and Protecting British Rowing’s Culture
Broken Oars: The Flag of Their Country
Broken Oars, Episode 45: Racing, 2k’s and Manscaping
Broken Oars Technique Clinic: An Alien’s Guide To Rowing Well, Part Two
Broken Oars Technique Clinic: An Alien’s Guide To Rowing Well, Part One
Broken Oars, Episode 44: Of Mice and Men - Rowing as Sense-memory, Saying Goodbye and Clearing the Stour
Broken Oars, Episode 43: Small Ergs, Big Dreams on Leeds, Rowing and Conquering Social Media
Broken Oars, Episode 42: Jezz Moore on Self-care, Self-awareness and why a Comfort Zone is a Good Thing
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