Joey and Maria’s Wedding was hilarious. Yosemite Sam was good in it as the priest and the Godfather but another of the rowers was even better in it, as the drunken bridesmaid Tina. She is on the extremely chesty side, and I was amazed she didn’t pop out of her dress while reeling around. (Side digression: I was going to refer to her as RowerJew, as she’s been known to affect a More Jewish Than Thou attitude. However, I don’t like to use a nom that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic, and I don’t want to have to explain that I’m Jewish every time I refer to her. Maybe I’ll just call her Drunk Tina. Or maybe I’ll stop worrying about what people might think. Yeah, right, that will happen soon.)
All of the guys playing ushers were pretty funny and very alive, though I don’t know any of them. That could change, as one of them asked one of the women (ExecuRower) with us for her phone number. We never did figure out if he was asking for real or as part of the show.
This morning was windy and rough out on the lake; we took the Intermendiates out in an eight and let them deal with it, which they did with gusto, if not with style. It’s good practice for them, both in just rowing in rougher water (which we always seem to get for regattas) and in trying not to let the extra challenge make them lose good form. It did, of course, but they’re still new enough at this not to have consistently good form. It’s all good practice. We didn’t let the beginners go out at all -- too rough for people who havennn’t even done a full stroke yet. Instead, we worked with them on the ergs, and made them do calisthenics. We teach them the basic stroke on the erg before they ever go out on the water; I think it’s valuable for them to try it again once they have some experience of being in a real boat. If I could have chosen, I’d have given them one or two more days in the boat before doing this, though.
Posted by dichroic at May 19, 2001 08:31 AM