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How often do you wash your kit?

More than once a week		29%

Once a week		24%

Once a fortnight		29%

Once a month		9%

Once a term		3%

When it rains		6%

Total: 34 members' votes (11 comments...)

What is your 2k PB?

>8:20		6%

8:10-8:19		0%

8:00-8:09		0%

7:50-7:59		12%

7:40-7:49		3%

7:30-7:39		3%

7:20-7:29		0%

7:10-7:19		0%

7:00-7:09		6%

6:50-6:59		12%

6:40-6:49		9%

6:30-6:39		15%

6:20-6:29		18%

6:10-6:19		9%

6:00-6:09		3%

5:50-5:59		0%

5:40-5:49		0%

<5:39		3%

Total: 33 members' votes (37 comments...)

Allegiance?

Black Prince BC		44%

First and Third Trinity BC		56%

Total: 50 members' votes (6 comments...)

HoR4s. Select all the options that you think will occur

FaT Men beat BPBC Men		10%

FaT Women beat BPBC women		20%

FaT Men finish higher than they start		65%

FaT Women finish higher than they start		75%

FaT Men have a positive net overtaking record		55%

FaT Women have a positive net overtaking record		45%

FaT men overtaken by BPBC Men		15%

FaT Women overtaken by BPBC Women		5%

FaT Men best college crew		25%

FaT Women best college crew		10%

FaT Men get under the 2nd Lamppost		60%

FaT Women get under the 2nd Lamppost		45%

FaT Men have a huge blade clash		45%

FaT Women have a huge blade clash		50%

FaT Men have a huge blade clash with FaT Women		10%

Total: 20 members' votes (7 comments...)

Which rowing term made you snigger most as a novice?

Stroke		38%

Cox box		0%

Entry		8%

Rack		0%

Pull		0%

Shaft		46%

Scull		0%

Rudder		8%

Total: 13 members' votes (9 comments...)

It is rumoured that most rowers are scientists. Are you?

You need not base this entirely on your degree although I think it will be clear for most

Scientist		65%

Artist		18%

Both		12%

Neither		6%

Total: 34 members' votes (13 comments...)

How should the novices be taught to row?

From backstops		23%

From frontstops		42%

Slowly		35%

Total: 26 members' votes (25 comments...)

Who should the club back as Sports Personality of the Year?

Ben Ainslie		7%

Freddie Flintoff		11%

Kelly Holmes		50%

Amir Khan		4%

Colin Montgomerie		7%

Matthew Pinsent		14%

RTT		7%

Total: 28 members' votes (8 comments...)

Simple:

Bowside		45%

Strokeside		45%

Darkside		10%

Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...)

Favourite Film Trilogy

Godfather		12%

Lord of the Rings		42%

Back to the Future		15%

Matrix		0%

American Pie		8%

Star Wars (original)		12%

Indiana Jones		8%

Kill Bill		4%

Total: 26 members' votes (44 comments...)

Vote for the Champagne Moment in the BPBCCC FaTBCCC match

(if you can remember!)

Crawford surviving his first ball		38%

Garrod hitting the game's only six		0%

the only Aussie on show (Nigel Kaye) getting the only duck		5%

Lea-Cox winning it for FaT off the last ball of the match		10%

Ingram's sense of humour failure after a dubious lbw decision		38%

Other (state below)		10%

Total: 21 members' votes (9 comments...)

Which Olympic sport would you like to see in 2008?

Clearly there is a lack of erg games in the current Olympic timetable. Which one would you most like to see there?

10m erg test		35%

One arm lowest split		0%

Feet out highest rating		18%

Arms only 2k		18%

Underwater erging		6%

Armchair erging		6%

Beach erging		12%

Synchronised erging		6%

Total: 17 members' votes (1 comment...)

London hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 is...

a good idea		81%

a bad idea		14%

something I'm not sure about		5%

Total: 21 members' votes (10 comments...)

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...)

Daddy or Chips?

Daddy		43%

Chips		57%

Total: 21 members' votes (2 comments...)

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...)

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