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[[old] Big seven]

Yep g'day, thought i'd jump on the bandwagon of this excellent looking forum, seeing as how its hard to find a good one with actual rowers who tend to push themselves instead of posers who i see at my local gym on the concepts, who have quite clearly never been in a boat in their life. <br /><br />Just wanted to say hi.. am i posting in the right place? Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this

[[old] george nz]

<!--QuoteBegin-Big seven+Feb 6 2006, 05:57 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Big seven @ Feb 6 2006, 05:57 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yep g'day, thought i'd jump on the bandwagon of this excellent looking forum, seeing as how its hard to find a good one with actual rowers who tend to push themselves instead of<b> posers who i see at my local gym on the concepts, who have quite clearly never been in a boat in their life. </b><br /><br />Just wanted to say hi.. am i posting in the right place? Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />As long as you dont mind some of us posers who have never been in a boat but spend a lot of hours shedding a lot of sweat and blood on Concepts at the gym reading what is maybe not the best post to introduce yourself .... I can asure you some of us push our f*%$$@!g self as much as you !!! <br /><br />On second thougts as this is an Indoor Rowing forum no maybe you are not in the right place <br /><br />George<br /><br />

[[old] Big seven]

mmm ok, didn't mean to offend anyone. i thought that indoor rowing forums tended to incorporate real rowing too, but that said, i won't make that mistake again. I still spend enough hours on concepts to know what its all about, so perhaps i can still fit in here heh. By posers i meant people who have no grasp of pushing themselves, not actual rowing technique... sorry about that

[[old] george nz]

<!--QuoteBegin-Big seven+Feb 6 2006, 09:34 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Big seven @ Feb 6 2006, 09:34 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->mmm ok, didn't mean to offend anyone. i thought that indoor rowing forums tended to incorporate real rowing too, but that said, i won't make that mistake again. I still spend enough hours on concepts to know what its all about, so perhaps i can still fit in here heh. By posers i meant people who have no grasp of pushing themselves, not actual rowing technique... sorry about that  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />No drama buddy, just making you feel welcome plus I guessed you were an Aussie (as soon as you said g'day) so what more could I do <br /><br />Good to have you aboard, I think you will enjoy the ride <br /><br />George

[[old] Daren C]

<!--QuoteBegin-Big seven+Feb 6 2006, 08:34 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Big seven @ Feb 6 2006, 08:34 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i thought that indoor rowing forums tended to incorporate real rowing too </td></tr></table><br /><br />Oh, you're not wrong. There are a lot of on-the-water rowers that post here (some of them particularly accomplished, such as Xeno), as well as the land-lubbers like myself that have never been on the water in our lives. I don't think you'll find many gym posers though; be we OTW rowers or pure ergers, we're a gritty bunch, almost all of whom regularly reduce ourselves to rasping, gasping pools of sweat on the damn machines. <br /><br />No offence taken - I just took it a typical Aussie gob spouting off.

[[old] Big seven]

a typical aussie gob <br /><br />well i guess i can't argue with that. kudos.

[[old] Citroen]

<!--QuoteBegin-Big seven+Feb 6 2006, 04:57 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Big seven @ Feb 6 2006, 04:57 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--> seeing as how its hard to find a good one with actual rowers who tend to push themselves instead of posers who i see at my local gym on the concepts, who have quite clearly never been in a boat in their life. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />It's OK, I assumed you were refering to the muscle bound meatheads who row 35 strokes a minute, damper 10 and 2:30 pace. They think they've done a good workout after 5 minutes of that. (While I may still have another 55mins left to go on the ergo at 20SPM and 2:00 pace.)<br />

[[old] jonwilko]

Cheers Big7, I spend all day with teenagers and they are not known for their diplomacy- they only open their mouths to change feet.<br /><br />I have never been in a boat in my life by the way...........<br /><br />No offence taken or meant!<br /><br />My brother lives in Oz and I have been there,it is a great place.<br /><br />Whining Pommie