ORAL PRESENTATION

INTRODUCTION

HISTORY

Rowing started with fishermen. When they went to fishing they always competed bwecause the first to arrive at the port sold more of fish. And finally it converted in a competition.

ME

I have been rowing for one and a half year because Cristina my friend needed girls to complet a team and Maria, Cristina and I went to try, but we thought that we wouldn’t like it but when we tried rowing we liked it very much.

TEAM

We row for the Club Xon’s Rem Empuriabrava. There are two seniors team, one Junior and twe vetarns team. Until now we were cadets but this year we are Juniors. In my team we are: Maria, Cristina, Lydia, Andrea, Marta, Gema, Núria, Sonia and Jenny and our tranier Jorxi.

COMPETITIONS

SENIORS 1500

JUNIOR 1000

CADETS 500

In Catalonia there are a lot of clubs: TORREDEMBARRA, CAMBRILS, AMPOSTA, FLIX, ROSES, BADALONA, LLORET DE MAR. But we only competed against Cambrils, Flix, Bétulo, Sta. Cristina, Pescadors, and Torredembarra.

COMPETITIONS 2

Normaly Cambrils or Flix win and we lost but this league we started very well. Firs we won the Catalonia’s competition against other junior categories when we were still cadets. Because we won we could go to the Spanish competition. There we spent 3days in Dènia In the competition there were 20 clubs and we were 4th of Spain.

After that competition league started.

This year we have been in eight competitions and we were 4th because we lost one competition when we were 1st and because of that our mark drupped.

TYPES

In rowing there are 2 differents types.

We tried two, but we practice more fixed bench than olimpic rowing

TRAINING

We training three times a week but because here often it windy or rain we have do ergometre. This is a machine to substitute the action of rowing but after that we do exercices called PEBA in spanish is PIERNAS ESPALDA BRAZOS Y ABDMINALES

FAMOUS

Rowing is an excellent sport for men and women It is a sport enjoyed all over the world. One of the most famous rowing races is between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Every year the two teams race on the river Thames in Oxfordshir and last year Oxford won.