Skills Training
— Skills Training —
Summer 2024
Skills with Ben
Further your rowing artistry. In the boat with Ben Booth, coaching individual and team instruction. Sessions will be tailored to the needs of the crew, focused on personal needs and goals. These will be divided into fundamental and advanced sessions, with fundamentals geared toward new rowers & any rower wanting to delve into the fundamentals and advanced , geared toward more nuanced skill & team building (for racing or the sheer artistry of a well-executed stroke. These 1 hour training sessions in Dharma Voyage’s gigs will be available to all current DV rowing members most Thursdays and Saturdays this summer.
The dates for the July & August sessions are TBD:
Sessions will start at 7AM and 8AM each of these days.
In efforts to be fair, August skill session sign ups will be first made available to the rowing members that did not have a chance to sign up for a session in July. Below are the guidelines and instructions for scheduling and paying for these sessions.
Each existing member of Dharma Voyage can sign up for 2 skills sessions per month.
Each rower is allowed to sign up for more than 2 sessions only if a seat is available 48 hours before a training session.
Refunds are authorized if you cancel your reservation 48 hours before your scheduled training session.
Refunds are put back on the credit card used to pay for the session.
Refunds are not authorized if you cancel your reservation after the 48 hour notice requirement. However, you can swap your reserved spot with another rower.
All payments must be made online with a credit card and the cost is $27 per session.
If a row is cancelled due to weather or other reason you will receive an email.
You must first have secured and paid for a seat in a specific time slot through Signup Genius.
Private Sessions with Ben
Ben will have some limited availability for private lessons, either in small groups or individual sessions. Small groups can be in the dory, gig or coastal quad (sliding-seat, sculling). Individual lessons can either be in a personal boat or one of the available sliding-seat sculling singles. Private sessions will be arranged on an ad hoc basis according to Ben's availability and schedule. These sessions allow individualized coaching and can cover anything from the basics to advanced skills. It is also an opportunity to choose your group - which could be a handful of your favorite rowing mates, a race team, or etc. Email info@dharmavoyage.org to be put in touch with Ben to request a private. Cost: $120 per hour, payable by check to Ben.