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Favourite Poll
FaT  36%
North or South  7%
Vault  0%
Dancing  29%
Lech Walesa  7%
/.  21%
Total: 14 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Which is your favourite part of the stroke?
Blade entry  0%
Connection  17%
Leg drive  25%
Back through  4%
Finish  21%
Extraction  0%
Hands away  4%
Bodies over  4%
Slide  0%
The bit where your hands rise up to go over your knees  25%
Total: 24 members' votes
What is your favourite weights exercise?
Select as many of your favourite exercises from the list as you want (apologies if I have forgotten any of your favourites).
Deadlift  23%
Clean  41%
Shoulder Press  23%
Bench Pull  50%
Bench Press  59%
Incline Bench Press  5%
Leg Press  59%
Leg Extension  36%
Leg Curl  27%
Calf Raise  9%
Squat  41%
Hack Squat  9%
Forward Lunge  14%
Backward Lunge  9%
Diagonal Lunge  9%
Plie Lunge  9%
Pelvic Lifts  14%
Other core exercises  32%
Hip Flexor  5%
Hip Abduction  5%
Side Leg Raises  5%
Toe Press  9%
Bicep Curl  32%
Lat Pull  27%
Cable cross-over  18%
Tricep Dip  14%
Triceps Extension  23%
Wrist Curl  5%
Press up  32%
Chin ups  50%
Sit up  50%
Dumbbell Fly  23%
Incline Dumbbell Fly  14%
Shoulder Shrug  9%
Seated Row  32%
Back Extension  14%
Overhead Press  9%
Rear Deltoid Raise  5%
Military Press  5%
Upright Row  9%
Back Butterfly  9%
Leg Pull-In  5%
Total: 22 members' votes   (11 comments...)
What is your favourite type of land training?
Long erg  13%
AT erg  4%
6x500m  9%
Heavy weights  30%
200 reps  22%
Circuits  4%
Running  4%
Lard consumption  13%
Total: 23 members' votes   (15 comments...)
Favourite summer regattas
Summertime, and the living is easy. Apparently.
Choose up to 4 regattas - based on whatever criteria you choose (e.g. previous wins, beer tent quality, course, weather on past visits, all of these, etc.)
Kingston Amateur  22%
Bedford Quarts  61%
Molesey  28%
St Neots Saturday  11%
St Neots Sunday  17%
Peterborough Saturday  39%
Peterborough Sunday  22%
Royal Canadian Henley  33%
Gloucester  11%
Bristol  17%
Ross  6%
Cambridge Autumn  11%
Total: 18 members' votes   (1 comment...)
Favourite boat class?
8o  26%
4x  0%
4-  17%
4+  13%
2x  4%
2-  17%
1x  17%
Laser  4%
Total: 23 members' votes   (4 comments...)
Categories to be included in FaT Top Trumps
500m Ergo Score  44%
2k Ergo Score  69%
2k Ergo Score as percentage of WR  34%
Bumps Races Done  63%
Bumps Up  31%
Net Bumps Record  75%
Blades  38%
ARA Status  34%
Pots (etc.) Won  53%
Versatility (Get a point for each of Bowside,Strokeside,Cox,Sculler)  53%
Year of Novicing  63%
Age  72%
Height  81%
Weight  88%
Total: 32 members' votes   (25 comments...)
Henley time!
If you could spend the day anywhere, it would be...
Leander  0%
Stewards  50%
Regatta  5%
Remenham  0%
Corporate hospitality at Fawley  10%
Barn Bar  0%
Gin Palace  5%
All of the above  0%
Boat tent  30%
Total: 20 members' votes   (4 comments...)
How will First and Third do in the bumps?
If you add all the crews' results together...
Up 13 or more  3%
up 9 - 12  3%
up 5 - 8  41%
up 1 - 4  38%
level  3%
down 1 - 4  7%
down 5 - 8  0%
down 9 - 12  0%
down 13 or more  3%
Total: 29 members' votes   (5 comments...)
Favourite Seat?
Bow  13%
Two  11%
Three  5%
Four  3%
Five  5%
Six  16%
Seven  24%
Stroke  13%
Cox  5%
Launch  3%
Toledo  3%
Total: 38 members' votes   (32 comments...)
The best 2nd May VIII song
Each year the 2nd May boat composes a song - and there are some classics. But which is the ultimate?
2003, Boat of Legends  18%
2002, 2nd VIII - Go, Go!!  6%
2001, Second VIII Rhapsody  48%
2000, Maybe we're just a boat of perfectionists  0%
1999, Cover our spoons  12%
1998, I vow to thee my Boatclub  3%
1997, Row Hard  12%
Total: 33 members' votes   (19 comments...)
That's very kind, I'll have a...
pint of lager  8%
pint of bitter  28%
glass of white wine  3%
glass of red wine  3%
vodka and bitter lemon  0%
G and T  18%
lager shandy  3%
bitter shandy  0%
orange juice  0%
orange juice and soda  3%
whisky  5%
rum and coke  3%
archers and lemonade  5%
archers and pineapple  5%
guiness  8%
lemonade  3%
lucozade  0%
smirnoff ice  3%
barcardi breezer  3%
latest trendy alcopop  3%
Total: 39 members' votes   (8 comments...)
Ergos...
Float  38%
Sink  62%
Total: 34 members' votes   (7 comments...)
Which was the better 2nd May VIII?
It must come down to these two, but who pips it.
Find their result histories...
Here (2002)
Here (1999)
2002: Walker, Goldmanis, Byrne, Peck, Jane, Clouting, Thorne, Davies, Adams (Up 4)  31%
1999: Remoundos, Fisher, Blackburn, Goodson, Sherrington, Peck, Ingram, Case, MacGregor (Up 3)  69%
Total: 29 members' votes   (22 comments...)
Fantasy May VIII
Pick the crew before Dan gets round to it. 8 rowers and a cox, please.
Andrews  74%
Bullock  6%
Byrne  0%
Chamberlain  82%
Clouting  15%
Coker  21%
Colvin  62%
Davies  94%
Earl  15%
Garrod  0%
Grundy  29%
Holland  91%
Horler  0%
Ingram  71%
Koryczan  0%
Lea-Cox  53%
Milos  21%
Mycroft  12%
Newton  0%
Patterson  0%
Peacock  15%
Rose  15%
Sankey  3%
Silvey  0%
Eton Boy  82%
Thorne  0%
Walker  3%
Watton  0%
Duan  6%
Earl  32%
Fisher  9%
Lee  9%
Munro  18%
Murphy  44%
Nanayakkara  6%
Wolf  0%
Wong  9%
Total: 34 members' votes   (40 comments...)
Love is...
Blind  17%
In the air  17%
A verb, not a noun  14%
All around  14%
A Big Scary Animal  38%
Total: 29 members' votes   (19 comments...)
Which are your favourite regattas/heads in the May Term?
Choose your favourite four; nb this is just regattas during the summer term/up to HRR.
CUCBC Small boats  30%
Head of the Cam (when in summer)  0%
Notts City  20%
Oxford City bumps  10%
BUSA  5%
Bedford  35%
Summer Head2Head  5%
City Sprints  45%
Cambridge Champion 8s Head  0%
99s regatta  20%
Peterborough May (1000m)  10%
Peterborough May (500m)  5%
Docklands  5%
CUCBC May races  80%
HWR  20%
Marlow  10%
HRR  40%
Total: 20 members' votes   (27 comments...)
Which is your favourite Tetris shape?
Square  11%
 5%
 11%
 0%
 5%
 32%
 32%
 5%
Total: 19 members' votes   (7 comments...)
Which boat will row fastest in May term?
1st Men  60%
2nd Men  16%
1st Women  16%
2nd Women  8%
Total: 25 members' votes   (7 comments...)
How will the boat race go?
After the 0-5 humiliation at Henley today with the women and children, how will the men fare? Pick once for the Blues and once for the Reserves.
Cambridge by more than 1 length  19%
Cambridge by less than 1 length  63%
Dead Heat  6%
Oxford by less than 1 length  6%
Oxford by more than 1 length
 
 6%
Goldie by more than 1 length  63%
Goldie by less than 1 length  22%
Dead Heat  3%
Isis by less than 1 length  6%
Isis by more than 1 length  3%
Total: 32 members' votes   (15 comments...)

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