Kiwi Rowing Analysis

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The Kiwi Pair The gold-medal winning Kiwi Pair of Hamish Bond and Eric Murray, is a story known by every new Zealander. Alongside Mahe Drysdale, they make up the icon of men's rowing in New Zealand. For me, rowing has been and still is a big part of my life, The Kiwi Pair is a book of two of the most influential athletes for young rowers. Coaching is the first insight I had from the book. The coaching styles seem to vary just as much as they do for school level rowing. With varying coaches, coxes varying styles, and ways which they interact with the rowers. Rowing for Wentworth I Had two main coaches, Peter Abbott, and Dudley Storey, both had very different approach to how they communicated with us, and what they wanted us to do at training etc. The hard work, no sympathy approach came from Dudley Storey, who was an Olympic champion in the 1968 Mexico games and in the 1972 Munich Games achieving silver. Dudley also coached Olympic crews and selected New Zealand crews for years. Dudley had a huge passion for hard work, to him there was no compromise. In ‘The Kiwi pair’ …show more content…

This seems to be the case with a lot of rowers, they pick it up as a fun and social way to keep fit. For me, this was the case, rowing just seems like a fun and social environment that keeps you fit. Rowing, however, is a lot more than that, rowing is a sport of passion and commitment. Bond and Murray both state that success is always everyone's goal, the only thing you need to reach success is passion. An athlete does not have to start off as the best in the world, you have to work for what you want, you have to have high confidence in yourself, in the others you row with, and your coaches. You don't start off aiming to be the best in the world, you start off by being better than you were yesterday, because if that happens every day, then it's only a matter of time until you reach

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