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| What are the most annoying things about using non boat club gyms? | |
Anyone who's ever used a gym - even a posh one - in the holidays will have come across some of these... | People who can't row to the extent that it's painful rather than funny |   | 41% | | | Fat smelly people wearing inappropriate kit to erg in thus showing the room their ugly butt cracks when they erg | | 18% | | | The fact that there are 100s of running machines but only 3 ergs stuck in the corner | | 35% | | | The fact that you can't see the tv's from the ergs | | 41% | | | People who look at you like you're mad when you spend more than 3 minutes on the erg | | 24% | | | No bench pull | | 53% | | | The ranks of sad looking people on the running machines - why don't they go for a proper run | | 24% | | | Lack of natural light as the gym is always in the basement | | 12% | | | People who sit on weights machines in between their reps and just stare into space - don't they know some of us are in a hurry!!! | | 18% | | | People who don't have the faintest clue about rowing telling you that you've got useless technique | | 18% | | | Something else - see below | | 29% |
Total: 17 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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| Daddy or Chips? | |
| Total: 21 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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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...) |
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| 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 |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| The best 2nd May VIII song | |
| Total: 33 members' votes (19 comments...) |
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| 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...) |
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| Ergos... | |
| Total: 34 members' votes (7 comments...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| 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...) |
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| Which is your favourite Tetris shape? | |
| Square | | 11% | | | J | | 5% | | | L | | 11% | | | S | | 0% | | | Z | | 5% | | | T | | 32% | | | I | | 32% | | | Q | | 5% |
Total: 19 members' votes (7 comments...) |
