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Concrete Canoes and SpeedCoaches
Competitive canoe racing is growing. Data and analysis delivered by canoe SpeedCoaches are critical to making boats go faster, even when they are concrete canoes. When you have Olympic ambitions, data and analysis are critical, regardless of your watersport. Anuar Akchurin knows. He is aiming to compete in the canoe sprint event at the 2028 LA ... Read more... -
Finding Her Coxswain Voice: Nat Toms
Coxswain Chronicles: From Novice to World Champion in Two Years– This is Part Four of an NK Sports Interview Series
Nat Toms is a unique cox. Not only is she a junior world champion, but she took a men's crew to gold in Paris, an increasingly unusual feat. Before the junior world championships, Great Britain only had one recognized ...
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Discovering the SpeedCoach GPS2 as a Masters Rower
NK Sports' SpeedCoach® GPS 2 performance rowing monitor delivers value with on-water readings, built-in workouts, and superb analytics for a Masters rower without a coach, training hard but not competing.
Do any of these describe you?
You are a Masters rower who has completed a Learn to Row and now has one or two years of experience.
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Heat Stress Danger: Red Flag, Stop Rowing
Preventing heat stress for rowers includes staying aware of conditions and communicating when to reduce or stop rowing practices or competitions. NK’s Kestrel Heat Stress Flag Kit is the perfect tool.
Hammering down a 1,000 m or 2,000 m racecourse, there are many things to pay attention to besides your bursting lungs and screaming legs. You ...
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Becoming a Para Coxswain
Johanna Knight has an ambition. Actually, she has several, but the one that stands out is being selected to be the para coxswain for the US national team. As one of the first recipients of the revised NK Sports Grant Program, Johanna used her $500 grant to purchase a CoxBox GPS amplifier with a pink bumper. She has the dream to use that CoxBox® in...
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Finding His Coxing Voice: James Trotman
Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership – This is Part Three of an Interview Series
Is there any greater test in modern coxing than The Oxford Cambridge Boat Race? To guide a crew of eight finely tuned athletes down the twisting, turning waterway that splits open the heart of the English capital is a ritual embedded into ...
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What Every Rower Needs to Know About Dragon Boating
NK's own Katie Godfrey celebrates 19 years on the US national dragon boat team and shares what is the same and different from rowing.
Nineteen years in any sport is a long time. Nineteen years on a national team is a remarkable achievement. Katie Godfrey, who has been selected to the US National Dragon Boat team for the 19th year, doesn't miss a...
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Finding Her Coxing Voice: Morgan Baynham-Williams
Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership – This is Part One of an Interview Series
Coxing is a notoriously tricky – and thankless – task. Summoning up the mental resilience and emotional mastery to successfully guide a boat full of athletes to the finish, finding creative methods to eek every last drop of effort out of ...
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Finding His Coxswain Voice
Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership – This is Part One of an Interview Series
Being the best is such an abstract concept. Best has a certain subjectivity to it – how can we define best in the context of differing environments, standards, and people? To be the best in a small field is tough; being the best across a ...
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LiNK Logbook Update and Why This is Good News for Rowers
Details on the latest update to NK’s LiNK Logbook app and how to train smarter and row faster with SpeedCoach GPS 2 & Training Pack.
NK Sports is proud of its culture of continuous improvement. That means updates to products, including the NK LiNK Logbook. The latest update is a good one, providing enhanced analysis power for rowers. If you ...
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