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2004 - 2005 Manifestos

Richard Bullock, Bryn Garrod, Phil Horler and Chris Mycroft - Men's Lower Boats' Captains

Novice Recruitment

We aim to follow plans similar to those in the last few years on recruitment. Our recruitment plan will include:

We will also aim to send fliers out to people in other years and to postgraduates - in order to recruit novices who didn't novice in their first year.

Novice Rowing - Term Plan

The term will start off as usual - with potential oarsmen having initial coaching on the ergs - followed by tubbing sessions on the water. Once we have started getting the novices into VIIIs, we intend to continue providing some tubbing sessions to focus on good technique.

500m erg tests will be conducted in the 3rd week of term, in preparation for the Queens' Ergs competition. Crew selection will be around this time, and will be based on technique, fitness and enthusiasm, and also on availabilities - so that crews can train during the afternoon, when outings are likely to be more productive. Early morning outings will be avoided whenever possible. Once in VIIIs, we aim to try and get regular, high-quality coaches for the top men's novice boats - to ensure that the novices get good, consistent feedback from all of their outings. Novices will be encouraged to develop their fitness levels by attending runs or light land-training sessions - we will try and persuade novices to attend a club circuits night for example. The focuses of the term will be both the Clare Novice Regatta and Novice Fairbairns, but we also intend to enter our novice crews into the Queens' Ergs competition and the Winter Head.

Novice Coxing

We will be aiming to pay more attention to coxes next year, by providing better coaching specifically for coxes. We will get novice coxes to cox tubs rowed by seniors - with a senior cox supervising and aiding from inside the boat - to allow them to gain more experience and confidence, which will hopefully be transferred to their coxing of novice crews.

Social

Next year we will be promoting the boat club barbeque and fireworks evenings to the novices. We will also arrange formal hall swaps with women's novice crews from other colleges - and hopefully with our own women's novice squad. Novices will also be encouraged to attend the Fairbairns Dinner and Bop. Hopefully, the novices will see that there is more to rowing than simply doing outings - and that this will make the sport more fun and appealing to them.

Novice Retention

Novice retention is always an issue for the boat club. We hope that, by promoting rowing as a fun activity and by organising social events, more novices will continue their participation in future terms. In the past 2 years, virtually all of the novices who continued rowing in Lent and May terms have come from the 1st Novice VIII. We will promote camaraderie between different crews, and actively encourage all novices to continue rowing in future terms - offering to accommodate all levels of participation. This will hopefully go some way to getting novices who didn't row in the top novice boat to continue to row.

Lent and May Terms

We recognise that being LBCs requires a full commitment not just in Michaelmas term, but also in Lent and May terms - to ensure that the lower boats do well in the bumps. We will be able to accommodate rowers with varying levels of participation. We will again be organising competent coaches for the lower boats, to ensure that these crews have every opportunity of gaining places in both sets of bumps - success in which should transfer to the higher boats and ultimately to the whole club in subsequent years.


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