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Hey u guys i need help...i'm the only varsity coxie on my team and my coach wants me to teach the new coxies how to coxie....i don't know what to do - i mean i know every thing and i'm a good coxie but i don't know how to teach them this will be my third spring season, my third summer season and my second fall season. i mean i have the experience and all i just don' t know how to tell it to them help?? ~ DevilCoxie
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2003-04-01 22:49:22 | Comment:
Tell them how to steer, a few basic calls, not to hit stuff, and to listen to the coach. I was put in the seat with little direction and it helped me to pick up so much. Nothing else makes you learn as much as necessity. Beyond that i think everyone has their own coxing style and they need to find it.
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| Submitted by coxari (
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Tell them as much as you can, but in small chunks. I'm a novice coxie, this is my first spring season, but I've already hit summer and fall. I got no help whatsoever from my varsity coxswain, and it made me too insecure, and made it hard to work with the rowers who were used to an experienced coxie. My best advice is to share share SHARE!
Share your feelings, the insecurtities you had as a novice, let them feel that you are approachable. That is the best gift you can give a novice coxie; letting them know that you care, want them to succeed, and have been through what they're going through and survived. I wish I could say I got this, but I didn't, and my coxing suffered because of it.
~coxari
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| Submitted by DevilCoxie on 2003-04-02 19:44:28 website:http:// | Comment:
thanks to all of u...i have forgotten what it is like being a novice coxie but i had to learn fast cause i was on varsity as a novice....if u have anymore suggestions please tell me
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| Submitted by coxari (
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) on 2003-04-02 23:25:30 | Comment:
Hey Devilcoxie!
I'm on varsity now as a novice cox! Any advice? I'm not getting much help from my fellow varsity cox.
~coxari
| | | Subject: Re: AHH NOVICE COXIES! | | Submitted by DevilCoxie on 2003-04-06 11:47:05 website:http:// | Comment:
don't be afraid of them.....say what u gotta say take charge and don't be afraid to be a mean a#s b*tch
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| Submitted by Shrimpy287 (-) on 2003-04-03 19:17:10 | Comment:
Tell them to speak up . . . lock them in a shed and have them make their calls from there , good practice. Try to put an experianced rower in stroke. And teach them not to say coxie.
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2003-04-04 18:23:03 | Comment:
I got to teach novice coxswains last year. Best thing to do is make yourself availible. Let them know its ok to mess up but they need to learn from their mistakes. Have a talk with them and find out what they are concerned about. The key to teaching is to COMMUNICATE but allow them to develop. The two cox'ns I worked with last year have developed completely different styles from me and each other but hey they developed into decent cox'ns.
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| Submitted by Steve-O (
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) on 2003-04-06 00:24:55 | Comment:
the advice i got from my varsity cox as a novie, "be a bad ass mother f*cker and dont let your crew lose"
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2003-04-07 20:09:51 | Comment:
hey i have had to train 2 new coxswains this spring and all that i can think of telling you is that you have to stay calm and have them watch and listen to you and others cox. thats the best way for them to learn is by hearing how it is supposed to sound
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| Submitted by NinthGirl (-) on 2003-04-21 20:15:20 website:http:// | Comment:
Tell them all the tricks you know...the little things about attitude. Besides basic calls, the rest of it is pretty much innovation and repeating back their coach's favorite phrases, those are always what motivate boats yet.
Also, make sure you teach them how to steer in principal, not over-compensating, stopping before they get to center, and so on. And docking, teach them all the tricks about checking down to tilt at the last second, backing in if someone catches their oar, etc. Giving them little tips that show they know more than their rowers helps them a lot. My first coach was a cox, and she always made sure I was a step above my rowers in knowledge, which helps build confidence immensely.
But the attidue is really the key. If you can impart a coxswain's attitude (aside from the lucky few who are pretty much born with it) the rest will take care of itself almost guaranteed.
| | | Subject: Re: AHH NOVICE COXIES! | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-04-07 19:32:43 | Comment:
i think the biggest thing novice coxies need to build is confidence. it's intimidating to be responsible for $30,000 of equipment, running the practice smoothy, keeping the rowers and boat safe, all that stuff. it can be overwhelming. if you were going to tell novices only one thing, tell them to be confident and not to be intimidated by the rowers or the conditions.
even if they're scared s**tless, they need to know being a cox is about having attitude. it would also be good to teach them how to steer, and basics like port starboard, wain off, etc
im a varsity rower and today we had a novice cox who had never even been in a boat before. its a really bad idea when you're off the dock and you hear your cox saying "wait, she didn't show me how to steer this thing" if she had just rolled with the punches, we wouldn't have even doubted her.
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| Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-03-06 20:36:18 | Comment:
BE NICE TO THEM!!! i just switched to coxing this year and one of the other varsity coxswains hates me! Be nice to the new coxies, and help them learn. Dont yell at them, and if you have to critique them later, dont act like its a huge chore, and dont be a bi*ch! Its hard to switch from rowing to coxing, because you feel like the rowers are going to think that you think you are better than them. SO if you are an experienced coxie, be ncie to the novice ones. Try not to leave them out, cuz thats what happens to me. Oh, and dont leave them with the crappy cox box--my voice is GONE because my mic was broken today! And dont make them carry the leaky gas tank. Thats not cool. Try to remember how you felt when you were learning to cox.
| | | Subject: Re: AHH NOVICE COXIES! | | Submitted by Anonymous Coward on 2004-04-16 18:28:31 | Comment:
i feel bad for the experienced rowers in stroke that have to teach some novies coxes to cox. im on freshman in my club and we dont have set lineups so coxes move around, and i feel bad for the freshman rowers who wanna get a good practice and have to teach the novice cox how to cox. i have talked to one of those fresman strokes and she was like "i hate teaching coxswains to cox, why do rowers have to do it, isnt it the coaches job?" she makes a good point
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