The Zen of Rowing

We had a fun time over the course of a few days shooting stills and video for the Zen of Rowing article in the Austin Statesman. Plus, who doesn’t love talking about how much they love rowing? Thanks to everyone who participated in the photo shoot, videos and article.

VERY early in the morning, Fit City blogger Pam LeBlanc came out in a quad with ARC President Camille Jobe, ARC Director Sara-Mai Conway, and ARC member Virginia Hoffman. She took to rowing right away, and we were even rowing all four, well, by the end of the 1 hour session. Here’s a gallery of photos from that first morning out on the water, thanks to Statesman photographer Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon.

We followed up that early AM row with another early morning later in the week, and got some great video of the Friday morning Club Crews out in action. Also, wonderful interview skills by our ARC members Regina Rogoff, Kyle de Haas and David Bradford!

All of it came together nicely in this article for the Statesman. Many thanks to our media director, Brock Sampson, for putting this together – and waking up early to take all those photogs out on the water. So much fun to see ARC taking up the front page of the Life section in this morning’s paper!

NLTRD Media Madness

Wow. We’re all over the place lately! Thanks to the local Austin news organizations, we promoted the heck out of National Learn to Row Day and got over 160 rowers to try out this amazing sport for the first time.  Here’s a collection of all the fun video stuff we’ve been up to lately.

First, we showed We Are Austin‘s Jason that rowing is a great summer activity and a full body exercise. This was his second time in a rowing shell with us, so he picked it up again pretty quickly. Here’s video of ARC Director Sara-Mai Conway talking about the total-body benefit of rowing.

Later in the week, YNN Austin Active Now’s Julia Morales out on the water. Here’s the video of her testing things out in the double.

We Are Austin joined us again the following week for a full promo for National Learn to Row Day, and our first appearance on LIVE TV! Whew. Hunter Ellis took to rowing quickly, and we had fun testing things out in the double.

You know what would be awesome? If news organizations would let you embed video.