6:40am practice this morning.
We had a new coxswain - a grad student from the US who had coxed back in New Jersey in high school.
SCORE.
Oddly enough, despite his unfamiliarity with our abnormally narrow course (and our consequent running into things), I felt right at home and suddenly much more natural/comfortable this practice. Maybe it was the extra half hour of sleep, or more likely, it was being back in my familiar world of crew terminology again.
Oh
'let it run,'
'hold water,'
'ready all - row,'
... how I have missed you.
I hadn't even noticed until today that the English coxswains never said "even pressure" after asking port/starboard --excuse me, stroke-side and bow-side-- to add pressure and bring us around a turn .. I can't think of what they do say, but it's not that, cause when I heard seemingly insignificant phrases like even pressure through the speakers today, I was just so happy ...
p.s. I saw Jon Garrity (another CME '11) and Rane Nolan (MIT '09, varsity heavyweight men's crew) pass by in their college boats this morning! It's so odd to see people I know/people on my own MIT team go by in other college/team boats ...
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ROWING!!!! I'm glad you're rowing. It's fun. We're HOCing this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that the words are so different. And it's kinda ridonc that you're seeing people you know on the water. Are you going to go bumping?? I'm super jealous. Cambridge seems so cool. I hope you're having a wonderful time.
hear hear! omg not saying port and starboard is really weird. i miss normal rowing terms too....
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