ranger wrote:aharmer wrote: You show that simple piece that you do every day and everybody here will give you the respect you long for.
This is the funniest thing I have heard so far.
Been there, done that.
You have no understanding of the depth, pitch, and ineradicable ill-will in the tight, snobbish rowing community.
In 2003, I broke the WR twice in a row and it only heightened the pitch of nasty nay-saying, which had already been going on for a year.
So, in response, three weeks later, I broke the WR a third time.
Robert Brody, coach of the USIRT, probably lost his job over the issue, and now, there _is_ no USIRT.
No wonder.
After twenty years with the company, at Concept2, they had to lock Brody's computer and tell him to go home.
I am happy to have a discussion about training with some decent human beings, but nay-sayers are not human beings, and nay-saying is not a conversation about training.
Nay-sayers are vermin--insecure, small-minded, passive-agressive wimps, who, being lame themselves, don't want anyone else to succeed, especially if those who are succeeding are doing something that they aren't doing--or can't, or won't.
Anyone have some rat poison?
ranger