Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 16, 2008
Jul 13, 2008
Xeno and Paul tying in before their final race
Paul and I raced at the Southwest Regional Regatta in Long Beach, a US Rowing sanctioned competition. Paul and I have rowed four times together, and I prompted him to race with me, in the MASTER D event, average age 50+. We had an awesome final race. At three quarters to the finish line we were even in the lead!!! We were not quite able to hold on to first place... W e w i l l b e BACK!!!
Paul, you did a great job!!!
Xeno
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 9, 2008
This is a note from my good friend Paul who I enjoy coaching. He and I are going to row the Master D double scull at south west regionals
this Sunday July 13th, 2008 in Long Beach. Paul is a great surgeon for pets and wild animals.
Hi Xeno,
As i go to bed to rest for the the next days single rowiing I often reflect on the great experience I have enjoyed watching you row as well as listening to your coaching words on technique and your words of encouragement. I thought I would share some of the individual words you use in coaching that have stuck .
There are many words however these are ones that seem to have been become indelible for me. First,the ALBATROSS; I remember you saying on one of my coaching sessions in the single you said to row long like you were an albatross. My new Vespoli is named Albatross and my reach is becoming long like the Albatross's wing span. Secondly you will frequently say during an erg class or on the water to \SIT TALL AND DON'T SLOUCH! ....fantastic advice that I followed and it has improved my posture , my stroke cycle and how i walk and stand...taller its great. Thirdly, look ELEGANT when you row and row SMOOOOOTHLY; these words have helped relax and organize my stroke sequence. SQUARE UP EARLY and DON' T SPEND TO MUCH TIME AT THE CATCH...oh my goodness has this helped me to smooth out my stroke . These are just a few verbal assists that use routinely but have a hugh impact on who ever hears them. Thank you.
All my best to the family
Paul
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 6, 2008
Duncan Free a rower who can reach gold in China, I found this in couriermail.com.au
I found this article interesting, because I struggled with staying in competition and longing for a more physically calm life in which I was able to spend more energy with my family.
article link
Selina Steele
July 06, 2008 12:00am
VETERAN rower Duncan Free, dipping his oar in for his fourth Olympics, should know better.
It's a glorious Thursday morning on the Gold Coast, a light southwesterly wind caresses the waters outside the Australian Institute of Sport national canoe and kayak centre at Miami.
Most of us haven't yet started our working day, but Free has already completed a two-hour session on the water and, just for good measure, a 60km bike ride.
Back at home, wife Belinda is juggling the demands of their children Danica, 5, Zara, 3, and Luca, 2.
Free has spent tens of thousands of dollars financing his career and his 35-year-old body has battled tendinitis, a bulged disc in his back and arthroscopic surgery on his knee. But it is time away from family that wears on him the most.
"The biggest sacrifice is family time.
"I love training hard and I love putting hours in on the water, but you spend a lot of time away from home and even when you're at home, you're still training three times a day," Free said.
"You're up before they're up and by the time you come home, they've gone to bed. It's a choice to follow your Olympic dream but it's also a sacrifice."
Free won his first and only Olympic medal in 1996: a bronze in the quad scull. In Beijing, he will partner Drew Ginn in the coxless pairs. They have won the past two world titles.
Ginn has two children of his own, but because he lives in Melbourne and Free on the Gold Coast, school holidays have become a complicated affair.
"When it's school holidays in Victoria, Drew moves his family up here so we can train together, and when it's holidays up here I take the family down to Melbourne to train," Free said.
"It's a handful with all the kids, but a good handful.
"Eventually, I want to live a normal life and be able to hang out with my kids and come home from work and have a beer, but I love racing.
"There will be a time when I won't enjoy it any more, but I'm yet to row the perfect race.
"And in Beijing, if we make the final, I know it will be six minutes of hell, but it may also be the perfect race."
For our Olympians, their Beijing dream is about addiction. It is about living their sport to almost the complete exclusion of everything else.
It is also about the 10,000-hour rule.
To excel at something on an expert level, one needs a decade of committed practice. That's 10,000 hours.
Sam Simpson, Australia's only male gymnast representative at the Games, has been learning his craft for 21 years and admits the still rings could make or break his Olympic dream – that or the state's surging petrol prices.
The 24-year-old, who almost quit the sport two years ago, works two part-time jobs and still lives at home to help finance his standing as one of Australia's best gymnasts.
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 3, 2008
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Jul 16, 2008
Rowing to a better heart, NY Times article
rowing to a better heart NY Times article
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 13, 2008
Xeno and Paul tying in before their final race
Paul and I raced at the Southwest Regional Regatta in Long Beach, a US Rowing sanctioned competition. Paul and I have rowed four times together, and I prompted him to race with me, in the MASTER D event, average age 50+. We had an awesome final race. At three quarters to the finish line we were even in the lead!!! We were not quite able to hold on to first place... W e w i l l b e BACK!!!
Paul, you did a great job!!!
Xeno
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 9, 2008
This is a note from my good friend Paul who I enjoy coaching. He and I are going to row the Master D double scull at south west regionals
this Sunday July 13th, 2008 in Long Beach. Paul is a great surgeon for pets and wild animals.
Hi Xeno,
As i go to bed to rest for the the next days single rowiing I often reflect on the great experience I have enjoyed watching you row as well as listening to your coaching words on technique and your words of encouragement. I thought I would share some of the individual words you use in coaching that have stuck .
There are many words however these are ones that seem to have been become indelible for me. First,the ALBATROSS; I remember you saying on one of my coaching sessions in the single you said to row long like you were an albatross. My new Vespoli is named Albatross and my reach is becoming long like the Albatross's wing span. Secondly you will frequently say during an erg class or on the water to \SIT TALL AND DON'T SLOUCH! ....fantastic advice that I followed and it has improved my posture , my stroke cycle and how i walk and stand...taller its great. Thirdly, look ELEGANT when you row and row SMOOOOOTHLY; these words have helped relax and organize my stroke sequence. SQUARE UP EARLY and DON' T SPEND TO MUCH TIME AT THE CATCH...oh my goodness has this helped me to smooth out my stroke . These are just a few verbal assists that use routinely but have a hugh impact on who ever hears them. Thank you.
All my best to the family
Paul
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 6, 2008
Duncan Free a rower who can reach gold in China, I found this in couriermail.com.au
I found this article interesting, because I struggled with staying in competition and longing for a more physically calm life in which I was able to spend more energy with my family.
article link
Selina Steele
July 06, 2008 12:00am
VETERAN rower Duncan Free, dipping his oar in for his fourth Olympics, should know better.
It's a glorious Thursday morning on the Gold Coast, a light southwesterly wind caresses the waters outside the Australian Institute of Sport national canoe and kayak centre at Miami.
Most of us haven't yet started our working day, but Free has already completed a two-hour session on the water and, just for good measure, a 60km bike ride.
Back at home, wife Belinda is juggling the demands of their children Danica, 5, Zara, 3, and Luca, 2.
Free has spent tens of thousands of dollars financing his career and his 35-year-old body has battled tendinitis, a bulged disc in his back and arthroscopic surgery on his knee. But it is time away from family that wears on him the most.
"The biggest sacrifice is family time.
"I love training hard and I love putting hours in on the water, but you spend a lot of time away from home and even when you're at home, you're still training three times a day," Free said.
"You're up before they're up and by the time you come home, they've gone to bed. It's a choice to follow your Olympic dream but it's also a sacrifice."
Free won his first and only Olympic medal in 1996: a bronze in the quad scull. In Beijing, he will partner Drew Ginn in the coxless pairs. They have won the past two world titles.
Ginn has two children of his own, but because he lives in Melbourne and Free on the Gold Coast, school holidays have become a complicated affair.
"When it's school holidays in Victoria, Drew moves his family up here so we can train together, and when it's holidays up here I take the family down to Melbourne to train," Free said.
"It's a handful with all the kids, but a good handful.
"Eventually, I want to live a normal life and be able to hang out with my kids and come home from work and have a beer, but I love racing.
"There will be a time when I won't enjoy it any more, but I'm yet to row the perfect race.
"And in Beijing, if we make the final, I know it will be six minutes of hell, but it may also be the perfect race."
For our Olympians, their Beijing dream is about addiction. It is about living their sport to almost the complete exclusion of everything else.
It is also about the 10,000-hour rule.
To excel at something on an expert level, one needs a decade of committed practice. That's 10,000 hours.
Sam Simpson, Australia's only male gymnast representative at the Games, has been learning his craft for 21 years and admits the still rings could make or break his Olympic dream – that or the state's surging petrol prices.
The 24-year-old, who almost quit the sport two years ago, works two part-time jobs and still lives at home to help finance his standing as one of Australia's best gymnasts.
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
Jul 3, 2008
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