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Great Fall Races In Vermont, Avignon, And London

By glrfcentral, in News,

We just posted a calendar event for the Rowing Avignon Cup race, which is an 8's only race. Last year it was held over two days in November. This year it will be a one-day format, and held a good month earlier, on 14 October. The prizes are phenomenal. First prize is a brand new boat, an 8!!! Wow The race format is really unusual in that you race both a head race and a sprint race on the same day. The other thing that makes the regatta interesting is that all boats are equipped with GPS trackers so that locations and times are recorded instantly.
 
Craftsbury Sculling Center is launching a new event called the Henley-on-Hosmer regatta. The event will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 06 - 07 October. It's a singles-only race spanning the full length of Big Hosmer lake (6400m.). At a minimum, everyone will race twice. The race is being held in conjunction with Craftsbury's Octoberfest celebration. They are offering great packages of $95/person/night with 3 meals included! Does that include all the beer you can drink?
 
The wonderful Pairs Head of the River race in London is scheduled for Saturday, 13 October. Registration is well underway and In fact, the deadline is just around the corner: 01 October. Not a bad entry fee: GBP 32. What a great focus, doubles and pairs only! The 4000m. race runs from Mortlake to Hammersmith, you race down river at the ebb, and the Thames river is closed during the race. Nice!!!
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One for the rower bucket list: rowing the Seine

By DPH2002, in News,

Not just a bucket list item. We need to make this a regular GLRF community-coordinated event!!!
I first discovered this event through the GLRF Rowing Videos page. I clicked on a video labeled 'Traversée de paris à l'aviron, 2012.' For those not fluent in French, it means seeing the sights of Paris as a rower, roughly translated. The event was held on Sunday, 23 September 2012.
 
2012 marks the 5th year that the event has been held, hosted by the regional rowing association (okay, Comité départemental d'aviron) in partnership with the general consul of the Hauts-de-Seine and the Paris area rowing league (alright! it's "la Ligue Ile de France d'aviron"). Over 1,000 rowers comprising 200 teams take to the water for a round trip, 30 km. tour of the best Paris has to offer, from the water.
 
The trip launches and returns from the Base nautique de l’île de
Monsieur, Sèvres. On the first leg, rowers head upstream to the Quai Saint Bernard, then head downstream, past the launching point to the Pont de Suresnes (name for a bridge), and finally turn around and head back to the launch point for a fantastic family-style meal with the French! Rowers launch at 0700h. and return anywhere from 0930h. to 1100h., depending on whether you have @runegartner in the boat ...
 
These kind of events are perfectly suited to be GLRF community-organized events that will help to bring gay and lesbian rowers together. Oh hey, look at that, there's a GLRF group for Paris. Who knew? Hint hint ....
 
Let's do it, over and over and over!!! Here's the brochure.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ZqDa1BMrg
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Backwards, a 'rowmance' movie starring Sarah Megan Thomas and James Van Der Beek, opens nationwide this month in the United States. Rowers everywhere will enjoy the story of an Olympic athlete struggling to find her place after losing a seat on the national team. Set in Philadelphia, there are great shots of Boathouse Row and rowing on the Schuykil River.
 
Best quote:
 
 
http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/thumbnails/300/Abi.Instense.jpgCheck out the movie poster, movies stills, and some of the production images at the GLRF Gotcha! Gallery. (For those who notice ... check out how we labeled the movie stills ... hope you enjoy the image titles!).
 
Want to put a group of rowers together to see the movie? What better excuse to blow off your next morning practice? .... Use GLRF's new Calendar RSVP feature to find out how many are interested in seeing the movie and as a tool to determine a count for group tickets (see below for more information).
 
Want to get notified of a new event in your regional calendar? Now you can 'follow' both a GLRF regional calendar as well as a particular calendar event and receive notifications when new events are added or updates are posted for one event!
 
Here is a list of the cities screening the movie and their opening dates. We'll update the list if we get any theater information for outside the United States:
 
Ambler, PA - Ambler Theatre - opens September 21
Bala Cynwyd, PA - Bala Theatre - opens September 28
Beverly Hills, CA - Music Hall 3 - opens September 21
Boston, MA - Boston Common 19 - opens September 28
Bryn Mawr, PA - Bryn Mawr Film Institute - opens September 21
Jacksonville, FL - AMC Regency 24 - opens September 28
Manhattan, NY - Cinema Village 3 - opens September 21
New Haven, CT - BTC Criterion Cinemas 7 - opens September 28
Oklahoma City, OK - Crossroads Mall 16 - opens September 28
Philadelphia, PA - Ritz East Twin - opens September 21
San Francisco, CA - Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - opens September 28
Seattle, WA - Oak Tree 6 - opens September 28
Washington DC - West End Cinema - opens September 28
West Newton, MA - West Newton Cinema - opens September 28
 
If you're just naturally a Type A organizer, add a calendar event for your city and date, and of course, click 'RSVP' in the 'create event' feature block selection.
 
Here is the 411 on group tickets:
 
Each theatre chain sets their own group rates and group rates usually begin at 25 people or more and some have assigned seats and some don’t and some have group rates that vary by showtime. If your group is smaller than 25, you can probably still arrange for a block of tickets but you may not be able to get a group discount.
 
Contact (email) Jackie Papier to arrange group tickets. We recommend going through her rather than dealing directly with the theater because she has more pull.
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Rowing Coach attacked and assaulted

By glrfcentral, in News,

As widely reported in news media around Chicago, and also in the LGBT news site, Chicago Windy Times, Jenn Gibbons, a Chicago-area rowing coach for both juniors and adult rowing programs, was attacked and sexually assaulted in a remote lakeshore area of Lake Michigan.
 
Coach Gibbons was in the middle of a 1500-mile rowing trip around Lake Michigan to raise funds for breast cancer survivors trying to live healthier lives.
 
She serves as the competitive coach for the LGBT-friendly Chicago Rowing Union.
 
 
Read the full story here.
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You can watch all the finals of the 2012 USRowing Club National Championships, live on ustream.
 
The stream cast starts at 16:37h., Saturday, 14 July 2012 and will continue through the last race of the day, scheduled for 19:25h.
 
View the heat sheet here:
 
http://results.usrow...atHeatSheet.pdf
 
On Sunday, watch as the finals continue, with the first race scheduled to begin at 07:30h., Sunday, 15 July 2012, and will continue through the last race of the day, scheduled for 12:58h.
 
View the heat sheet here:
 
http://results.usrow...unHeatSheet.pdf
 
Link to watch the live stream:
 
http://www.ustream.tv/usrowing
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GLRF is excited to announce a slight change in the layout and content for the Regattas + page.
 
We just launched a new blog devoted entirely to regatta and camp/clinic items of interest for our worldwide online community. Although it was too late to include for any meaningful use now, a good example would be the information on the live radio feed for the 2012 Royal Henley.
 
We'll be adding add blogs posts as we scour the internet and or receive emails, and of course, we're glad to get inputs from the GLRF community.
 
The blog posts will be fed, via RSS, to the GLRF Regattas + page so members and visitors alike can see the latest entries, and then click through for more information.
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Gopro Rowing Videos Are Taking Off

By glrfcentral, in News,

Over the past year, we've noticed more and more of the GoPro-produced rowing videos appearing on the GLRF Rowing Videos page. They are amazing to watch since they really give the viewer a sense of the joy and serenity in rowing.
 
We can see why they videos are exploding on YouTube - they don't hide any faults and coaches can use the videos to give their rowers immediate feedback. Sure, the videos from the launch are helpful but cameras mounted on the boat, using different rigs, can really put the spotlight on not just the stroke but any rower in any seat.
 
For those who don't know, the GoPro is the camera of choice for outdoor sensory video experience, be it mountain biking, surfing, or rowing, just to name a few. More and more rowing retailers like New Wave and JL Racing are providing kits for rowers, including the camera, the mounts, and the wiring.
 
This video of the French national team, Les Bleus, shows some of the many possibilities for camera angles:
 

 
Here is one of the most recent videos from the GLRF Rowing Videos web page, of some US juniors. We're not here to make fun of their technique but to show how immediate the feedback can be for the stroke in this quad:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK_ALsYJb8g
 
The cameras are not inexpensive but wow, what a public relations and advertising tool, an incredible coaching tool, and even a race preview tool. Just mount the camera on the bow and row the course!
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Homophobia At British Airways

By glrfcentral, in News,

We certainly hope the current web management practices at British Airways are a result of sloppy query code in blocking websites and not a pervasive attitude towards the gay and lesbian community.
 
At a recent visit to the British Airways North Lounge, Terminal B, London Heathrow Airport, GLRF team members were surprised to find the Gay + Lesbian Rowing Federation website was blocked and labeled as "adult content."
 
In a tersely worded reply to the British Airways IT Administrator, GLRF Executive Director Brian Todd did not mince words in his view of the actions by the British Airways Information Technology department:
 
 
Of course, British Airways can take comfort in its societal views about the morality of gay and lesbian people, since the GLRF website is also blocked at all United States Apple Stores .... and at all Gold's Gym franchisees
 
The corporate world might do well to review their blocking and filtering programmes that deem their core customers and audiences "immoral" and "unacceptable" in public life.
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A Photo Essay On Rowing, And Nothing Else

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http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/media/302/Rowing04_Photo_Eric_Lanuit.jpg Paris-based photographer and former rower Eric Lanuit has profiled rowers at a regatta in France in a 87-page photo essay in his online magazine, Character. The magazine, which is only published online, is almost entirely focused on the images and the emotions they create and the stories they tell.
 


warning: being a French publication, the content of the issues has no limits and does not recognize any taboos. “The only thing that matters are the aesthetics whether it is in the beauty or in the ugliness.”
The rowing photo essay borrows from the German rowing retailer New Wave’s clothing line ‘Rowing Nothing Else.’ The images share a vivid sense of the feeling of the dedication and gritty reality of rowing. Any rower looking at the images will instantly relate to the feeling of camaraderie and closeness that rowers feel, in an almost remote and unknown connection from the perspective of an outsider.
 
If you’re looking for lots of skin, massive muscle, and revealing shots of junk, you won’t find it here. Rather, the essay gives a peek behind the curtains of the reality of rowers, http://www.glrf.info/gotchagallery/data/media/302/Rowing02_Photo_Eric_Lanuit.jpg their body language, and their often scruffed appearance and their focus on rowing while not preening and posing for the camera.
 
The title of the essay is perfectly chosen and the images depicted are just that. The images were shot over the course of one day on Sunday, 15 May 2011 at the Régates de Masse (Masses Regatta) in Mantes-la-Jolie (approx. 34 miles or 55 km west of Paris), at the Stade nautique international Didier-Simond de Mantes en Yvelines.
 
The rowers featured in the photo shoot vary in age: some are juniors, some are university, and some are senior rowers from a number of teams and clearly more than one country! French photographers have the luxury of being free of the American legal system and can more freely capture their subjects without fear of liability or retribution. They don’t have to get signed waivers …
 
Rowing Nothing Else appears in the 4th online issue of Character, issue 2, Fall 2011, Volume 2. To find the photo essay, you need to jump to page 60 (look for the 4th bar at the bottom of the flash player). If you prefer, you can page through from the beginning but you'll have to thumb through the essay of drawings on Bambi and The Bears ... (again, read the warning above).
 
For those who are not fluent in french, the text of page 63 reads: (and if our translation is lacking, then please help us refine it for other viewers!!!)
 
 
For those reading page 61, and who are unfamiliar with the Tour de Leman, it is a 160 km rowing endurance race that circles Lac Leman, otherwise known as Lake Geneva. The annual race is held at the end of September and can last up to 17 hours, depending on the weather. The best time recorded is 11hours:55minutes:19seconds.
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Florida Rowing Center Boat Sales List Posted

By glrfcentral, in News,

Just across the wire: the Florida Rowing Center (FRC) has just posted the boats that will be available for sale at the end of the 2012 winter rowing season.
 
The idea behind the boat sales list is to encourage rowers to head down to FRC, enjoy some sweet sculling while trying out a variety of shells. Then you can put down a $500 deposit for the shell you want and pick it up or have it shipped to you in May 2012.
 
For those who are unfamiliar with the Florida Rowing Center, the boathouse is located on Lake Wellington in Wellington, a small village-like community 12 miles west of West Palm Beach, Florida. In case there are any rowers who don't fly in for weekends of caviar, champagne, and wild naked jacuzzi parties, the City of West Palm Beach is 48 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, 70 miles north of Miami, and 180 miles south of Orlando.

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