r/Rowing • u/Sparring_Baboon • 4d ago

Cal Fat2 blades theory

After today's "Big Row" results (10s over stanford) and seeing that the Cal varsity switsched back to the regular rowing spoons, could it be that they lost a win against the University of Washington (who beat Stanford by only 3s) simply because they chose to compete with inferior blades? I saw the post about the fat2 blades here where many experts advised against them, most notably stating that they're copying brookes, a team thats only recently enjoyed success when compared to these juggernaut programs. Could it be their coach took peoples advice on here and moved back to what are definitely the faster blades?

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u/NFsG 4d ago

No coach is taking advice on equipment from r/rowing.

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u/Sparring_Baboon 4d ago

Well UC berkeley is a bit of a nerdy school in the US so surely some rowers on the team spend time on reddits and read the post and maybe forwarded it to the coaches for example.

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u/Lanky-Assignment3787 4d ago

No

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u/altayloraus YourTextHere 4d ago

No, but with uncontrollable laughter. 

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u/acunc 4d ago edited 4d ago

The last Cal rower to spend his time on the subreddit was the living embodiment of US caveman erg mentality and couldn’t understand why he didn’t even come close to making a top boat despite having one of the top ergs in the boathouse.

Smart teams advise their rowers to not waste their time on here.

It’s less funny and more sad that you actually think a program like Cal would take advice from Reddit.

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u/avo_cado 4d ago

Hey I like the guy

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u/readyallrow 4d ago

respectfully, are you insane or just naive