Agecroft R.C. Women's Coach, Level 3 Rowing Coach, Para rowing coach, Strength & Conditioning Coach. RP3 Rowing ambassador, L4 Personal Trainer, My own views.
Joined January 2009
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Eric Kent retweeted
The win by Cambridge over Washington in the Ladies makes it the first time since 2002 that Cambridge will have two big boats racing on the Sunday. Of course this assumes that we're happy to treat the composite as a Cambridge crew...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.
Eric Kent retweeted
Force 3: Strength Training for Endurance Performance is out now.
If you are a coach or athlete in any sport, I think this will be of interest to you.
geni.us/endurancesport
Please retweet 🙏
Eric Kent retweeted
For those who aren’t in the loop: Harper, a trans-identifying male who trained as a medical physicist now studies 'trans' athletes at Loughborough University.
It was Harper’s 2015 study of eight transgender runners that informed the policies of nearly every sports body from the International Olympic Committee down to little-league baseball.
Published inThe Journal of Sporting Cultures and Identities, Race Times in Transgender Athletes is still widely quoted despite having been thoroughly debunked as not meeting the basic requirements of being actual science (like being a randomized controlled double-blind study, or having enough participants to give meaningful, statistically robust, results). 3/4
Eric Kent retweeted
There are 13 Commissions which draw up policy on everything from Youth to Masters rowing. The two Commissions relevant to Fairness for Females are the Medical and the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Integrity Commissions.
And as I idly scrolled down the list of members of the Sports Medicine Commission there it was... the name: Joanna Harper.
That loud clang you just heard is the sound of the penny dropping.
Yes, that Dr Joanna Harper. 2/4
Eric Kent retweeted
Ever since I accosted the President of World Rowing on a beach in Wales and asked him what was he thinking running a sport that so blatantly discriminated against women, something has been niggling away at the back of my mind.
In a sport with a very clear performance advantage to being male (2k male indoor world record is 5:35.8; female record is 6:21.1) why has rowing stuck to the ‘be kind’ policy and allowed males to take female medals and records going back to the mid-2000s and probably before.
As @WorldRowing prepares to vote a rule change that could protect the female category, I had a little rummage around the World Rowing website and I unearthed something interesting . . . 🧵1/4
Eric Kent retweeted
Can we look at this now - can we give this absolute horror some attention please
Eric Kent retweeted
Teenage girls crave mother-daughter time through sport and exercise, and given the right opportunities, do want to be active.
Let’s normalise mums and daughters making time to be active together, just as society expects of fathers and sons 🔥
womeninsport.org/creating-ch…
ALT 48% of teenage girls say mum is their biggest support when being active.
Eric Kent retweeted
BREAKING.
Here we go again. Petrillo, the 51 year old father of two has just qualified for the semi finals in the WOMEN’s 200m.
Another disabled woman has just lost out on the chance to advance.
Eric Kent retweeted
From taking their first stroke to winning a Paralympic medal, thank you to every coach for making the dream possible 🚣 🥇 🥈
The outstanding achievements of the @ParalympicsGB Rowing Squad at the @Paralympics is thanks to our athletes' brilliant coaches at every stage 👏
Eric Kent retweeted
🔴 OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION
Click here to read the decision of the World Rowing Executive Committee concerning an appeal following the conclusion of Race 25, PR1 M1x Final A, yesterday at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games regatta.
worldrowing.com/2024/09/02/o…
Eric Kent retweeted
This 🙌
If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn
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3 Questions everyone in #sport should ask of their leaders:
1. Is our sport growing - i.e. are more kids, more #participants coming and trying our sport?
2. Are they staying and how long are they staying?
3. When they - the participants - stop coming - do you call them or meet with them and ask them for feedback, i.e. to learn why they stopped coming.
These three questions are deceptively powerful.
Question 1 - is a test of your sport's marketing and promotional activities.
Question 2 - is a test of your sport's customer service, "how you make people feel", your sport's culture.
Question 3 - is a test of how serious your sport is about learning, growth, improvement and getting better.
In other words, every sport's core philosophy should be MORE PARTICIPANTS / MORE OFTEN.
If you're not getting more people coming and if they don't stay - find out why and do something about it.
Eric Kent retweeted
Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem.
It doesn't.
Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press.
Britain has a problem with racism.
Britain has a @Nigel_Farage problem.
RT if you agree.
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Please share 🙏.
Our new book, geni.us/sprinting is currently available for £1/$1 on Kindle.
Offer ends tomorrow.
Eric Kent retweeted
: Going to end up with a lot of ex-elite athletes with serious issues if we carry on pushing the narrative that anything less than gold is disappointing. 99.9% of athletes in any sport don't win. AP has publicly fought demons for three years. His priorities sounded right to me.
Eric Kent retweeted
My sister retired from teaching today after 38 years in the classroom in one school. No one from SLT spoke to her. No staff gathering organised at all. A card - that’s it. She dedicated herself to her craft. Turned down promotions. Wanted to be a great history teacher. 1/2
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
