OK Row 2011

CONGRATULATIONS to all who completed the OK Row this weekend

OK Row - 8th and 9th October

 As you all know by now we will once again be holding our biennial "OK" row on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of October. This is a row from Oxford city boat club all the way back to Teddington lock (O-K, Oxford to Kingston). The event is a great oppourtunity for all the club to get to know one another better and enjoy the great scenary and stretches of water that the thames has to offer, as well as raising much needed  funds for our boatclub. The row will involve:
 - 144 KM
 - 60 rowers
 - 31 locks
 - 7 stops
 - 6 quads
 - 2 buses
 and one common aim: to have fun.

 We hope that by now all competant rowers will have signed up and begun fundraising. We would appreciate if everyone set themselves a target of £75. Although this may seem like a large figure if you get a little from a lot of people it will add up! Our top fundraiser last time raised around £600, so the competition is on!
 As well as supporting out club in our endeavour to buy new boats to allow everyone a fair opportunity on the water, we will also be making a very substantial donation to a local charity which supports people with ME. For infromation on the disease please follow this link to the ME association:
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/

Thanks to everyone for your support; parents, sponsors and rowers alike. We look forward to seeing you all in Oxford!

COB

HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA 2011

The qualifying races for Henley took place last Friday 24th June. The school quad of Aaron Moran,Jack Claydon, Richard Clarke and Joel Nulson were flying the flag for TSBC. They had trained hardand having put in a strong and impressive performance at Marlow International the previousweekend were feeling confident.

The Fawley Cup is a popular event at Henley for junior quads so this year the fastest 8 crews outof the 61 entries were to qualify. It wasn’t the best of conditions with the rain persistent but theylooked strong along the 2112 metre course.

The results came and disappointment was written on all their faces. They came 18th out of 61which was a fantastic result given the stature of the crews from around the world competing. Theycan be nothing but proud of their achievements as they have certainly put TSBC out there as aserious contender.

WELL DONE

Tiffin Boat Club on a Cake

A very big thank you to all those who helped to bake, sell, buy and eat all the lovely cakes at Saturday's Kingston Head. We sold a staggering £270 worth!

All boys raced well putting out good performances across the board. Training and hard work throughout the winter season all showed through the 5 kilometre course the signalled the last head race of the year. A win in the J18 quad came with help from Sam McArdle's extra length on this occasion, subbing in for Jack, and the consistency Joel, Aaron and Greg have shown throughout the year was apparent. The J14 quad have been adamant that success in Tiffin Schools rowing does not have to come through the older years and picked themselves up a pot each for winning their category with outstanding rowing from Tom, Harris, Alberico, Hasan and coxed by Dudley. Tiffin go into their training camp on good form in preparation for the up and coming regatta season!

Richard

CAKE SALE

We are planning to run a cake sale at the Kingston head on Saturday 26th March.

If you are able to help in any way. either on the stall or by baking cakes or biscuits that would be fantastic. Just let me know approx what times you can be there and we can set up a rota.
If cakes could be cut and wrapped in a saleable slice, that would help, and can be brought along in the morning or if easier can be brought to me on the Friday. Don’t forget to label any boxes that you want returning.

Thank you in advance for your culinary donations!

Sarah Clarke

NANTES!

Every year, the GB junior squad hold a training camp in Nantes. After performing well at trials and winning Hampton Head, beating Windsor boys, a seat on the coach was reserved for me this year.
The week consisted of two sessions a day, and when the river froze over on day four, like amphibious ghouls, drained of any energy we once had, we took to the land for training. After two days on the water, racking up around 75 kilometres on the water, we were set a 30 minute test on the ergo. Naturally I took the corner erg, not wanting to show anyone else up. I expected to be somewhere near the back of the group, however I managed to break my PB by a fair margin, impressing the coaches in the process.
A great thing about doing a camp such as this is getting to know everyone, most of them I will be rowing with nearer the end of the year when they are looking at crew boats for the championships.
Last year all but two rowers that went to Nantes ended up competing for GB at the end of the year. Hopefully successful results at Trials on the 19th and 20th February will leave me in good stead for the World Championships held this year at Dorney Lake, Eton (some second rate school near Windsor). Obviously it’s a bit early to be buying tickets but if everything goes to plan, I’d like to think I have what it takes.

Richard Clarke

J16 update from Guy and Ed

Taking inspiration from Take That (Dai Rai’s favourite band), the Charlie, Neil, Guy and Sahib jumped in their multicultural quad and knuckled down to proverbial business. Under the iron fist and square blades of Miss Ferraro, the J16s were metaphorically whipped into shape. Miss Ferraro’s strong leadership had an immediate effect with Ed Hale picking up two pots early in the season at Kingston and Teddington while the quad posted up great times in the senior events. We were given strict orders from the top to stay fit over Christmas and not to become festively plump on pain of death.

Over Christmas while everyone was gorging themselves with mince pies and roast turkey, Ed was training relentlessly. Unfortunately for him, he chose skiing and due to his vulnerability to injury, his knee broke like a Lib-Dem promise. Leaving him hospitalised and forced to spend his days in misery playing halo, while being tormented at the thought of being incapable to train. Meanwhile the quad was lucky enough to have the privileges of training in sub zero temperatures and the skin piercing rain. The quad is looking forward to kicking the competition in their bow balls at Hampton Head. Prepare to have your new boatclub socks thoroughly rocked off!

By Guy & Ed, J16

The Marlow Thames Valley Trial Head

CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Clarke who had a successful day at Thames Valley Trials head on Sunday. With his doubles partner Tom Eames from Tideway Scullers. Their time over the 1900m course was 7.06:25 beating second place by 10 seconds.

In the afternoon they were joined by Harry Lonergan and James Rudkin, also from Tideway, to win the J18 4x and with a time of 6.35:36, beat Windsor boys quad to the line by 7 seconds. Not only did they win the category and another medal but they also clocked up the fastest time of the day.

Well Done to you all!

Full results can be found on: http://www.mikrotime.com/rowing/row2011/martvth11.html

Training with World Class Start – Anna Porteus TSBC

Recently, I have been training at Molesey Boat Club under the watchful eye of Neasa Folan, who is an incredibly successful coach, having led numerous crews to victories at all abilities from club to international level.

Since being at Molesey, there has been a definite increase in the intensity of my programme and I am currently training 9 times a week. Having learnt lots of new aspects of the sport I never even knew existed before I feel I have progressed into a more competent rower.

With 7 World Class Start camps a year in Nottingham, these are times when you are required to perform, preparing you for the intensity needed at GB level and I feel that with every session undertaken, I am one step closer to achieving my aim of representing my country.

Anna Portlyeous

Regatta Calendar 2011

16 APR RETURN FROM CAMP
30 APR CHISWICK (bank holiday w/e)
7 MAY THAMES DITTON
27-29 MAY NATIONAL SCHOOLS
11 JUNE MARLOW TOWN
24 JUNE HRR QUALIFIERS (top quad only)
29-3 JULY HRR
9-10 JULY KINGSTON
15-17 JULY NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, MOLESEY
18 JULY HOUSE REGATTA
22 JULY END OF TERM

Christmas Holiday Training

Everyone has been e-mailed a timetable of sessions that will be run by Will and Greg over the holidays. Please aim to get to at least four of these if you can and keep up a bit of training on your own!
And of course... have a Merry Christmas

Walton Small Boats Head

This weekend saw our last race of the term, Walton Small Boats. This was a great event for participation, with 35 scullers racing in 24 boats.
Although their was a lack of wins at this event, many participants still achieved some great results, including;
- Richard Clarke, who came a very close 2nd in J17 singles
- Isaac Jarratt-Barnham who came 2nd in J15 Singles
- Jack Claydon and Joel Nulson coming 2nd in J18 Doubles (A fantastic result for their first race together)
- Harris Robinson and Tom Hodson who also achieved 2nd in J14 doubles.
Mentions should also go to; Charlie Harrisson and Guy Thompson, Elliot Salmon and Jonothan Williams, Jack Pearce, Michael Morris and Shane Dunne, Sam McArdle and Nathan Holt, Sahib Sidhu and Neil Patel. All of whom achieved top 5 placings in their categories.
Well done to all who raced, with a well earned break and lots of training over this holiday we all look forward to another successful term in Spring.

Full results for Walton Small Boats Head can be found here: http://www.waltonrowingclub.co.uk/images/stories/wsbh_res_2010.pdf

Training on the weekend of 03/04 of December

There is no training this weekend, on water OR on land as the school site is closed! Please do not turn up!
Please, also, do not take this as a day off : Do a 20/30 minute ergo if you can or a 40 min. full body circuit if you don't have access to an ergo!
Please spread this to everyone possible.

Fours head

The Tiffin quad including Jack Claydon, Greg Street, Jonathan Williams and Joel Nulsen came 25th in their category, however were disqualified for an undeclared substitute which Tiffin are currently appealing. Richard Clarke in a Tideway/Stowe/Tiffin composite came 5th, only 0.6 seconds behind Yarm in 4th place, a very respectable position.

Head season

Provisional timetable of races for November:

6th - Teddington head

14th - Fours head

Down on the Tideway, crews race 7k from Chiswick bridge to Putney. This year Tiffin have entered a Junior 4x in a category with a phenomenal 41 entries, the quad includes Jack Claydon, Greg Street, Aaron Moran (injured) and Joel Nulsen. Richard Clarke is entering a composite quad of Tideway Scullers/Tiffin Sch/Stowe. Both crews are hoping for a respectable position.

20th - Kingston small boats head/ GB trials in Boston

Kingston has a wide range of junior entries where Tiffin try as hard as possible to win as many pots as possible, whilst hopefully beating their times at Teddington. Meanwhile Richard Clarke and Tim Livingstone will be racing in Boston in singles in the 2nd stage of GB Junior trials.

27th - Hampton small boats head

A junior event which proved highly prestigious last year with over 100 entries in J16 singles alone. It's a good chance to see how crews fair against scullers coming back from GB trials the week before.

Teddington Head

The first race of the season for Tiffin scullers was Teddington head on 6th November where Tiffin swept up 7 wins across the two divisions, setting us up very nicely for a good season. This goes to show how much effort everyone put in over training camp and how it has paid off.

Wins came courtesy of Nathan & Sam in J18 doubles, beating Charles & Josh for the pot. George & Johno raced IM3 double to beat Tiffin associates. J14 double of Harris and Tom won their category by a long way, overtaking 6 crews on the way down. In the singles, Richard won J18 category by over a minute to be the fastest sculler of the day. Ed won his J16 category by a long margin with a very good time clocking under 20 minutes. Both J15 singles posted very respectable times and this race gave Isaac the win over quad companion Jack P. Darcey raced well with a time of 23.40 obviously everyone was scared off as she was the only competitor in her category.

Well done to Will, Dairui and Guy who all posted times within 5 seconds of each other, proving good competition. Just behind them was the J15 girls double and just behind them was Seb and Jack B in their double. Also well done to the other J15 double of Jack H and Elias who came second to an on form Kingston double.

Everyone put in a good performance and set a time to beat in 2 weeks time when they will row the same course at Kingston small boats head.

Full results can be found at http://www.walbrookrc.co.uk/news/events/6th-of-november-teddington-head-race/

Waitrose 'local good causes' scheme

Tiffin Boat Club is one of the 3 'local good causes' in Waitrose, Kingston for the month of September. This means at the checkout you will get a green token which you then place in the box of the cause you wish to support (obviously Tiffin Schools Boat Club). Then the more tokens the cause gets in relation to the other causes, the bigger percentage of the £1000 monthly donation we receive. Hopefully meaning we will be able to get the landing stage!
So if you're shopping in Waitrose Kingston in September if you wouldn't mind dropping the token in the Tiffin box it would be much appreciated, Thank you.

I thought I'd make a general notice covering some rowing terminology for parents as mine are still muddling up doubles and pairs.

The age group comes first and it's predominantly done in school years. the number is the maximum age of the rower in that year so someone may be 14 yet rowing as a J15 as they are in year 10.
J14 - year 9
J15 - year 10
J16 - year 11
J17 - lower sixth
J18 - upper sixth
Most of the time they will merge lower and upper sixth together under the category J which stands for Junior. Anyone can row in a category above them (i.e. a J14 rowing as J16) but you're not allowed to go down a year.

If entered at adult level a points system occurs making things harder. One win at adult level (not a J category) and it is one point. 1 pot, 1 point.

N - Novice - you cannot enter with 1 point

IM3 - Intermediate 3 - you cannot enter with 3 points

IM2 - Intermediate 2 - you cannot enter with 5 points

IM2 - Intermediate 1 - you cannot enter with 7 points

S - Senior - you cannot enter with 10 points

E - Elite - no limit

Here's a summery of the boat types and their respective symbols:

1x	2x	2-	4x+	4x(-)	4-	4+	8+	8x
Single	Double	Pair	Coxed quad	Coxless quad	Coxless four	Coxed four	Eight (always coxed)	Octo (always coxed)

I hope this helps with understand what boats have been entered

House Regatta

As of every year with house regatta there was a a great spirit on a hot day. This house regatta had a few changes involved. This year saw girls involved in house regatta. It also saw J12s involved in their own division over a division racing over 250m. I apologise if I am seen to be taking sides as my house is the magnificent Scott.

We always talk about how great the integration with the girls school has been this year but to really show it within the boatclub the first girls pot EVER was handed out this year to Anna Porteous. Coxing the Senior quad winners, Scott, to a great win. This victory also marked the end of a 5 year domination for George and (big) Jonny for Scott in the quads category, as they are leaving this year they got the victory they deserved, which continued into the Senior singles, Jonny winning the 'A' category, and George winning the 'B'. However I realise it would be a little unfair just to mention the winners. Myles, always a great laugh, turned up to beat Daniel Teh in the first round and came 2nd to Jonny in the Final. Third place in that race was Mo Farwana, which in all honesty no one expected, we hope Mo will continue his rowing into sixth form. The 'B' event saw Sam McArdle beat Joel Nulsen for 2nd position, proving that it'll be tough competition at the start of next year.

To the Juniors. Where the quads raced with great skill in the final for Scott to just pip Raleigh. The junior singles was won by Ed Hale of Scott. Although the battle for second place saw Elliot Salmon come from behind after his trademark "my start wasn't very good" and beat Sahib to the line by a whisker. This again will provide an excellent challenge to form crews next year. The 'B' category was won by Raleigh, Charlie Harrison. The J15s have a great squad moving into next year where the game really steps up.

IMPORTANT!!!!!!

The end of house regatta saw Captain of boats announced which will not be easy for the coming year. However I believe that the right man has been chosen in the form of GREG STREET, well done

Kingston Regatta

A huge thank you to the mass support Tiffin received on both days. As I reached the enclosure and the shouting began it gave me the boost I needed to sprint the final 250m. If this continues into next year the crews will be delighted. Everybody gains confidence when they hear support for them.

As a brief round up to the weekend, Tiffin won three events, J12 doubles, J18 singles and J15+ quads so well done to those who gained a pot (in total 2 more victories than KGS).

Well done to all of the crews racing, there are too many to name and out of fear of forgetting one I won't list. We achieved countless wins in the heats and semis to reach the final many times only to be knocked out by a narrow margin. The unfortunate people who experienced this were; Anna in the WJ15 singles, Ed in the J15 singles, the other J12 double, Richard in the IM3 singles and the J14 A quad of Isaac, Jack P, Elias and Jack H, coxed by Thadius. These were absolutely fantastic results for many crews that have not raced much and so all should be proud!

My special mention goes to the J14 girls who raced. I was pleased to be able to cheer on the first J14 Tiffin girls doubles who rowed extremely well and I think that if they continue as they are, a win next year is almost definite. Huge congratulations to Gillian and Anika, Beni and Darcey for their great efforts and training recently. They shouldn’t be the only ones next year so hopefully we’ll have lots of girl crews racing at Kingston Regatta for the Tiffin Schools Boat Club!

To conclude, a massive well done to all people that raced; all winners, finalists and those that didn’t reach that far. It was a great 2 days with fantastic support from friends, parents and members of the club. Let’s keep up the good work going into the winter season and see how many pots we can add to our collections!!!