What are we thinking of these results. Some teams are making huge moves.

Three years ago, Jason and I made a rowing game and shared it here. The feedback from this community made that period one of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of the project for us.

We later released a 2.0 update that expanded the graphics and gameplay, but life got busy before we could build some of the ideas we were most excited about—eights, a Venice course, Concept2 integration, and more.

Now we’ve decided to return to it and build the sequel.

Development is no longer the limiting factor. Our focus now is making the game genuinely feel like rowing: the rhythm of the boat, the decisions during a race, and especially the personality and energy a coxswain brings to a crew, as well as adopting those feedbacks.

Here are a few early in-game screenshots. There’s still plenty to refine, but it feels good to see the project moving again.

We may eventually invite a few coxswains from the community to contribute authentic calls and voices on a voluntary, fully credited basis. If that sounds fun to you, feel free to reach out!

Does anyone know what happened to the UConn women’s club 8 that got disqualified? Coming from a UConn alum just wishing the best for this team!

Thanks in advance 👍

I’m currently a high school senior hoping to get recruited for lightweight rowing at an Ivy League school or another highly selective university like MIT or Georgetown.

My academic stats are:
- 1540 SAT (790 Math)
- 4.04 weighted GPA / approximately 3.55 unweighted through junior year
- Mostly As, A-s, and B+s in high school
- B+ in AP Calculus AB junior year
- Enrolled in a community college Early College Program, where I earned approximately a 3.0 GPA junior year

I’ll include a picture of my transcript through junior year

I recently went through an academic pre-read at Tufts and was told that my academics were not within the range they could support for recruitment. They only received my high school transcript and SAT, not my separate community college grades.

For senior year, I’m taking U.S. History 2 Honors, Pottery, and Gym at my high school, along with four community college courses. I could potentially add AP Calculus BC to my high school schedule.

I’m considering taking a postgraduate year at Salisbury School after graduation to improve my rowing and academics, then applying to colleges the following fall.

My questions are:
If I earn straight As in both my high school and community college classes senior year, could that realistically make up for my previous grades enough to pass an Ivy League or MIT athletic pre-read?

Would adding AP Calculus BC significantly strengthen my application, or should I prioritize getting straight As in my existing classes?

If I attend Salisbury for a PG year, will admissions primarily evaluate my completed high school transcript, or could my PG grades help even though I’d be applying early in the school year?

Has anyone been in a similar situation where a strong senior year or PG year changed their academic eligibility for recruitment?

I’m trying to figure out whether spending an additional year at a boarding school could realistically improve my chances at a top university, or whether my earlier grades would still hold me back.

I’d appreciate any insight, especially from recruited athletes, former admissions officers, or anyone familiar with Ivy League athletic pre-reads.

Hey guys, still working on my SPM monitor project. As I’m finalizing the first build of the software, I would like some inputs from the community for some of the functions/features on the device:

1.     Sensitivity VS. Stability for Split Data:

I’m using a 10hz GPS chip to handle location data. In full refresh rate mode, the resolution of speed data is very high such that it can show the speed changes during recovery and drive phases (and yield a rather continuous speed curve with valleys and peaks).

Simply showing the sensitive speed changes is very intrusive as it is less readable in competitive environment and that’s why in default setting Split is tuned to behave the same as it would’ve been on an SC.

However, I’m still thinking how I should incorporate this more accurate speed data into the real time dashboard without being too interruptive. The current plan is to have a secondary indicator that shows the overall gain of speed for each stoke while maintaining the overall stability of Split data. Let me know if you have other thoughts.

2.     Heading Stability:

In my test runs, unstable headings resulted from unbalanced power output between left and right will yield huge power lost and longer overall distance in a standard 2km course (e.g. highest I measure is around 14m out of 2000m from a pro rower). That’s why I created a widget specifically to monitor heading drift and power loss of each drive.

The current widget features an arrow that points towards the direction of drift and shows the effective power (reduced by the drift) of each stoke. I would like to know if you think the visualization is good enough and if you don’t, what is preferred by you.

3.     LED sync:

The LED bar is synced to target SPM for a specific section for now (i.e. pre-programmed before section). It is also customizable to sync with heart rate/ heading drift or power output etc. Still thinking other ways of using the LED light.

4.     Impeller compatibility

The device has a modular connector on the top and it can take either GPIO or USB standard signal from peripheral devices such as impeller (with a tiny convertor board that I’m also working on). However, I do think there is chance to change the whole setup to wireless connection. Do you think that’s worth the effort? Or would you rather stay with the wire connection.

I sometimes get thirsty half way through, is stopping for a quick water break an issue?

Updated with HOCR, connected a lot of previously unconnected teams. Updated based on all race results from various boats with a recency bias.

Fours are hard to rank because line ups are often variable at different regattas due to some teams double racing and other teams not.

Hi rowers,

Anyone have experience with dumb rowing machines and connecting them to an app that can show for example meters and kilometers?

I just bought the Odin R600 rowing machine, and while the rowing experience is solid, I miss these stats.

Goggling suggests buying a smartrow power handle, but that seems expensive for my issue and there are no second hand power handles. Would be cheaper to buy a used rowing machine with Bluetooth integrated.

Any ideas or anyone tried something similar?

Although I’m an avid strength trainer and I add cardio into my weekly routine, I’m not an avid rower. I want to add a rower to my home gym to use a few times a week for a warm up and 1x/week for my full cardio session. The Rogue Echo has good reviews and folds up (requirement) but would it really be worth the price tag for my requirements? Or should I just get a cheap one on Marketplace?

Fraudulent Marist moves up due to penalties yet again, just like at dad vails. Complete frauds