Hugh Laurie on the Craig Ferguson Show. He explains why a win in Rowing is unlike winning in any other sport.
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@pioi786610 жыл бұрын
"it's a miserable sport" IT"S SO TRUE but rowing is my life and winning is the best thing ever
@flyingdutchman26492 жыл бұрын
Best description. Think back on that hours long steady state, 5*1500, or 12 by 2 min row, and ultimately that 2k test. However, again, you feel you have achieved so much, and any other fitness sports made you feel easy.
@J0hn09779 жыл бұрын
Rowing is a my passion, every rower hates it but somehow we keep waking up and going to the boatshed. When you ask a rower why they can never give you a certain answer since they do not know themselves. They do not know the motivation that drives them. Rowing is a passion, and rowers know what it is deep inside
@ItsCheball9 жыл бұрын
Johnson Lim Couldn't be more right. That second you finish a 2k, every time you feel like you can't breath, your bones are aching and your muscles are sore, every rower asks themselves why they row. I have heaps of friends ask me why I row. I try and pinpoint a reason, but in truth it's like there is none. All that matters is that I still feel compelled to row season after season. Rowing is indeed a passion. Just a very confusing, difficult and painful passion :D
@dregsta7 жыл бұрын
You guys sound like drug addicts , just replace the word row with shooting up and rowers with junkies and you have basically the script to the movie requiem of a dream or basketball diary
@MikeRoberts19647 жыл бұрын
That's actually very accurate. It is an addiction, really. Why else would I have gotten up at 4am, gotten dressed and out the door in the cold of 4:30, rode to the boathouse and wait in the dark to be let in and work my ass off for an hour in the gym, then go across the road to the pool and practice strokes for another hour, then go off to class, then come back to do more pool work or run? It was an addiction.
@flyingdutchman26492 жыл бұрын
6 AM row, when you have 8 other guys (cox) waiting for you, and once you are on the water and finished your first piece, it's worth it!
@RowingSwiftie253 ай бұрын
I love the people, that’s one thing that keeps me going.
@TowellytheGreat12 жыл бұрын
fun fact: he won british nationals in the schoolboy coxed pair. i.e. the most hellish boat ever invented
@hlysnan641810 жыл бұрын
I didn't think I could love Hugh Laurie any more than I did...
@MrJamesbond229 жыл бұрын
Just finished reading THE BOYS IN THE BOAT,about the 1936 Washington U.team that won the gold in the Berlin Games.Hugh's father Ran was on the British team.
@pakiblinder11 жыл бұрын
"Did you enjoy it" "NOOO its a miserable sport" haha soo truee
@kenziekandy12 жыл бұрын
Even more respect for this dude ^.^ Even though I just realized this is probably why my parents put me in crew. My mom is obsessed with both of them.
@67hermione12 жыл бұрын
OMFG. Hugh Laurie used to row. This is the best god damn day in my entire life.
@adamthorntonillustration9281 Жыл бұрын
He rowed for Cambridge in The Boat Race 🙂
@Griffinmc9 жыл бұрын
Classy, Hugh, not to mention your father who rowed in the 1936 Olympics.
@thomasburns8583 жыл бұрын
... and, father, Ran Laurie, won a gold medal in the coxless pair at the 1948 London olympics.
@andersonrocha197912 жыл бұрын
I love Hugh Laurie...
@Mspamplemousse112 жыл бұрын
he is right on about the looking at the people you are beating thing.
@crazypianolady13 жыл бұрын
So so true!
@sorcha12312 жыл бұрын
Agree 100% when he says it's a miserable sport!
@TheSocialIrony10 жыл бұрын
Yay, rowing!!!!!
@charliebfmv12 жыл бұрын
He's very right :)
@oneworldfamily11 жыл бұрын
He was in the Cambridge Blue Boat.
@emili971510 жыл бұрын
Soooo true :)
@charliebfmv13 жыл бұрын
rowing is a brilliant sport !
@TanaNanner10 жыл бұрын
I rowed for a year and loved it, but couldn't keep up with it due to my studies. Even though I adored it, I have to agree. It's a miserable sport.
@cazbutcher66606 жыл бұрын
It's called both in america. Crew or rowing. I say "im going to crew" because its shorter and easier to say but when I talk about it I say rowing
@alexdugom12 жыл бұрын
0:58 Best Part
@crayonfish211 жыл бұрын
Light double state champion AMA
@fictionalfan730610 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know who is interviewing Laurie? And what news organization is it, by chance? Thank you so much for the help.
@amct10198 жыл бұрын
Very late reply, the interviewer is Craig Ferguson
@TheTechnoKitteh12 жыл бұрын
The sport in the U.S. is called technically crew but they don't say "cruise" they say "row" I believe.
@dora_msc2 жыл бұрын
Omg i love house and now that i know we both used to row 😳
@mungoclarkson12 жыл бұрын
@wahaya2 While I totally agree with your recommendation, I find it hilarious that people anywhere in the entire world could *not know* about Blackadder. It's like not knowing about eating ...
@Gregusse12 жыл бұрын
@MrCamRellim Both he and Craig Ferguson are British (although Craig may be less willing to be upfront about it)
@unicyclemaster4707 жыл бұрын
been rowing for a while, still don't know what a good win feels like #highschoolstruggle
@DougKutyna7 жыл бұрын
Yes. Unfortunately there is very little variability in rowing. It is not uncommon for a team to race all through high school and never place, much less win.
@unicyclemaster4707 жыл бұрын
DougKutyna well ya, it's called being bad, schools with old programs and full boat trailers always win, and then theres club teams.
@DanimalNinja12 жыл бұрын
wow he hides his accent super well in House...
@blaiseneyroud7222 Жыл бұрын
Hugh Laurie is right about the rowers seeing the opponents they are beating. But what about the cox ;) ?
@petergard77810 ай бұрын
If your head is down and looking in the boat your airways are not straight, you are not breathing properly and probably exhausted as a result.
@balanar4o12 жыл бұрын
@balanar4o THEN TALK ABOUT ROWING
@foghornfilms12 жыл бұрын
@Gregusse thats cause Craig is Scottish and well, most Scots will call them self Scottish first. ;)
@pastnastification697 ай бұрын
The schadenfreude is palpable. You get to SEE your opponent lose.
@brainslugged79574 ай бұрын
Not only that, but even once you've won, your opponents may still be in the process of losing!
@BoatFullOfJoy13 жыл бұрын
So hilariously true!
@tootsiekilla12 жыл бұрын
@capricorn1968 I live in the US too. I row in Exeter, NH. We call it crew.
@moky8moky12 жыл бұрын
can someone write what he says? pleeeeease :)
@cestlavie25912 жыл бұрын
i hate how the call it "crew" in the states
@Lehmann108 Жыл бұрын
If you’ve never crewed or run cross country you have no fucking idea.
@JohnCBobcat Жыл бұрын
Looking at the people you're beating? Not if you have your eyes in the boat like you're supposed to!
@markC1993 ай бұрын
when you are far enough in front, if your focus is of the head in front of you you still see your victims in your peripheral vision. also if you are stroke in a pair or 4- guess what you can see in that position 😜
@MrSister12710 жыл бұрын
I live in the states and what I do is called rowing, but we don't use those lightweight little fiberglass hulls, I row wooden longboats, I think that it is the truest form of rowing, without any gear or people our boats weigh the same as your boats fully loaded