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  1. Top 10 Tips to Get the Most from Your CoxBox

    Top 10 Tips to Get the Most from Your CoxBox Maximize your investment in the essential coxing tool. Ten tips to help you get the most from your CoxBox from charging,sprint' storing, cleaning to simple repairs. Whether a newbie or an experienced coxswain, there are always things to learn and ways to do things better. Including getting the most from your CoxBox. Here our top 10 tips to ... Read more...
  2. Support for CoxBox 08 Ending Soon — Transition Now to Improved Technology

    Support for CoxBox 08 Ending Soon — Transition Now to Improved Technology Beginning July 01, 2024, Nielsen-Kellerman (NK Sports) will cease repairs for the CoxBox 08 model. We remain committed to offering the best rowing and sports performance equipment and customer service. Many CoxBox 08 repairs require a new board. NK Sports will soon be unable to make the boards because of obsolete parts. We have several solutions ... Read more...
  3. Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing

    Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing Collegiate club rowing offers students leadership experience and community but requires solutions to improve safety, provide more education and awareness, and build better governance support. Collegiate club rowing is getting talked about. The hottest topics are the loss of athletic department status, ... Read more...
  4. The Inside Story on Your Megaphone

    The Inside Story on Your Megaphone Revealed: The Story Behind the Blue Ocean Megaphone The Blue Ocean® Megaphone sports an interesting name, a sleek appearance, extreme durability, and cool functionality as the only digital megaphone. This is the story behind the innovation. You may have seen them lined up on the coach's bench. Or in a single file at the back end of a ... Read more...
  5. Finding Her Coxing Voice: Nina Castagna

    Finding Her Coxing Voice: Nina Castagna Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership - This is Part Two of an Interview Series How did you first get into coxing? One of my closest friends in high school had joined a club team and would tell me all about it after school. Eventually, I was intrigued enough to come to a practice with her. I showed up to my first day, a 4'... Read more...
  6. Concrete Canoes and SpeedCoaches

    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...
  7. Finding Her Coxswain Voice: Nat Toms

    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 ... Read more...
  8. Discovering the SpeedCoach GPS2 as a Masters Rower

    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. ... Read more...
  9. Heat Stress Danger: Red Flag, Stop Rowing

    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 ... Read more...
  10. Becoming a Para Coxswain

    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... Read more...

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