Rowing for Disabled People in Scotland This Fact Sheet Provides an Overview of Adaptive Rowing in Scotland
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Rowing for Disabled People in Scotland This fact sheet provides an overview of adaptive rowing in Scotland. It also provides useful contact details to signpost you to your local club to develop your skills in rowing or to coach disabled people in rowing. Scottish Rowing plan for the four years from 2013-2017 is available to Whether it’s just the sensation of getting out download on the Scottish Rowing website. on the water on a quiet morning or the thrill of the race, Rowing is a sport that requires The Scottish Rowing Centre at Strathclyde fitness, commitment and discipline. In Country Park is the main centre for adaptive Scotland there are 27 affiliated clubs with an rowing, offering regular coached sessions as estimated total membership of around 2,500. well as opportunities to come and try the Scottish Rowing represents rowing’s sport. For more information about getting interests with British Rowing, sportscotland, involved, contact Sophie Warburton on government and nongovernmental 01698 250206 or email organisations. As the governing body, [email protected]. Scottish Rowing also: Para-rowing and the Provide racing licences to allow Paralympic Games participants to compete in events; Run Strathclyde Park Regatta, the FISA, the international governing body for Scottish Rowing Championships and rowing, recently agreed to rename adaptive the Scottish Indoor Rowing rowing as Para -rowing. Championships; Scottish Rowing use the term Adaptive Help clubs develop and grow their Rowing for all rowing for disabled people and membership; Para-rowing for disabled athletes on the Provide access to coach education performance pathway. and volunteer training; Adaptive rowing provides opportunities for Support aspiring performance athletes people with a physical, sensory or learning on the GB pathway through disability to participate in rowing. Para- partnerships with sportscotland and rowing events were added to the World the Scottish Institute for Sport. Rowing Championships in 2002 and to the Scottish Rowing’s vision is to drive and 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, inspire people to take part and achieve their China. Since rowing’s inclusion to the potential in rowing, making rowing Scotland’s Paralympic programme, the GB Rowing water sport of choice. For more details on Team has won gold medals in Beijing and in how they aim to achieve this, their strategic London and are now training towards Rio. The Summer Paralympic Games take place For Level 2: http://www.scottish- once every four years and it is an elite, multi- rowing.org.uk/.../coaching/ukcccoachingcour sport event for athletes with physical ses impairments including those with mobility For Level 3: issues, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral http://www.britishrowing.org/education- Palsy. The Paralympics are a direct parallel training/coaching/level-3 to the Olympic Games - hence the name. The FISA Classifications Helpful Resources Para-rowing YouTube case study: Scottish Rowing welcome people with all www.youtube.com/watch?v=px8F8dIwgkk abilities to try and take up rowing, whether they would be classifiable under FISA Facts & Figures classification rules or not. FISA, the first international sports Under FISA rules there are three categories federation, was founded in 1892. for para-rowers: Rowers with a visual impairment race LTA - Legs, Trunk, Arms: Use of at wearing black-out goggles. least one leg, trunk and arms. Also for Rowing is the only sport where those with visual and intellectual competitors cross the finish line impairments. Rowed with standard backwards. boats and sliding seats; Physiologists claim that rowing a TA - Trunk and Arms: Only use of 2,000-meter race is equal to playing trunk muscles. Boat has fixed seat; back-to-back basketball games. AS - Arms and Shoulders: Limited trunk control. Boat has fixed seat and rower is strapped at upper chest level to only allow shoulder and arm movements. At FISA events there are five boat events (standard nomenclature is used): 4+ Mixed LTA 2x Mixed LTA (not a Paralympic event) 2x Mixed TA 1x Men AS 1x Women AS Racing is held over 1,000 m (rather than the standard 2,000 m). In mixed events half the GB Rowing Team crew must be male and other half female At London 2012 the GB mixed coxed four of (coxswain may be of either gender and may Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, be able bodied). Single shells for the Arms James Roe and cox Lily van den Broecke and Shoulders category must have won gold, while four-times World Rowing stabilising pontoons attached to the riggers. Champion Tom Aggar and the mixed double scull of Nick Beighton and Sam Scowen Coach Education finished just outside the medals in fourth. UKCC endorsement for a sport means that Aggar and women's single sculler Helene the coach education programme meets a set Raynsford both won gold in Beijing 2008 of agreed industry wide standards. Rowing where Naomi Riches also won a bronze in offers a Level 2 and Level 3 coaching award. the mixed coxed four- the only member of Level 4 is currently under development. the crew to go on and compete at London More information on these courses can be 2012. found at: The GB Rowing Team's Para-Rowing squad hold trials three times a year. For more information on attending trials, or if you think Scottish Rowing Head Office you have potential to represent Great Britain Scottish Rowing in this sport, please contact Hannah Lawton: Scottish Rowing Centre [email protected]. 366 Hamilton Road Motherwell ML1 3ED E: [email protected] T: 01698 250206 Key Contacts Regional Development Manager (West) & Adaptive Rowing Lead: Sophie Warburton [email protected] Tel: 01698 250206 Coaching & Development Manager Mark Senter [email protected] Tel: 01698 250206 Scottish Rowing Centre Manager John Blair [email protected] Talent Identification Coach Hannah Lawton [email protected] Key Websites Scottish Rowing www.scottish-rowing.org.uk British Rowing www.britishrowing.org World Rowing www.worldrowing.com/rowing/para-rowing Para-Sport parasport.org.uk IPC www.paralympic.org Concept 2 www.concept2.co.uk .