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  1. ??HUH?? says:

    FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Hoopie says:

    There’s a REASON that the guy in back has the name he has.

  3. erklaerbaer says:

    “Whoops. Sorry, i thougt i was meant to swear at you. Don’t you look where you row?”

    • Soph says:

      Being a coswain… Sometimes we don’t. BUT, I’ve never hit anything! Only missed the dock by 10 feet.

      • Sbell says:

        I agree! It’s extremely difficult to see where you’re going with 8 people between you and the finish line. Bow loaders ftw!

        PS I’ve never hit anything either… Except the pillar on the dock BEFORE the boat even went in the water. That was embarrassing…

  4. o0omrjacko0o says:

    lol….STOP FUCKING ROWING GDAMNIT!!!!

  5. FetteWorst says:

    STOP GOING! STOP GOING! XD
    Seriously…….some people are dumb…..pretty dumb
    I wonder how much one of those paddle is costs

  6. izzyboy says:

    Hahaha! “Stop Rowing! Stop Rowing!”

  7. Backeman says:

    Haha, what did the steerman think of?

  8. Lord says:

    Shit happens.

  9. Jacklyn says:

    Row row row your boat, gently into a pole!

  10. Rubbish says:

    That was Rabbish.

  11. What a turd. That guy totally steered them into that pole!

    • cicili says:

      You must need a hearing aid.

    • You've Got Fail says:

      Looks like a freak occurrence where the coxswain’s (often a small, light person) view of the pole was completely blocked by the crew. The coxswain maintained a rock steady course, so the pole never moved out from behind the crew, and was possibly never seen by the coxswain.

      • cicili says:

        Bravo! Well said!

      • Cloral says:

        Which explains why he kept yelling at them to stop rowing…

        • cicili says:

          That was Michael Caine freaking out on the docks. Not the coxswain.

        • You've Got Fail says:

          oh yeah, right…that explains why, even though the coxswain was distant and facing away from us, we could hear him yelling as clearly as if he was right by the camera mic…uh huh

        • You've Got Fail says:

          So cicili, you’re saying that even though the coxswain is some distance away and facing away from the camera, we hear him…as if he’s right next to the microphone?

      • Falenes says:

        I am pretty sure I saw the pole actually move in behind the boat. The whole thing was a set-up. Damn terrorist poles.

      • SuffusionOfYellow says:

        Pity he didn’t look up, that pole had to be about 20 foot high…

      • Gargamel says:

        The coxswain knew the pole was there, it’s his home course, they train there every day.

      • doctordeath says:

        It’s called the blind zone. The cox can’t see a small segment directly in front of the boat for a considerable distance, ‘cos there’s eight big people in the way. Thus, looking at the course the cox was steering, she wouldn’t have been able to see the pole until the last few seconds, and she does finally steer the boat off a direct collision course. If the pole had impacted on the bow, they would have destroyed the eight and probably the people sitting at bow and two seat. It it had hit the riggers on the stroke side, it would have ripped the side of the boat off. Really, it could have been much worse.

      • Dr Hugh says:

        That would be true if they had employed a garden gnome for the job and he was wearing a big hat and a welding mask… That is a big pole and one assumes it didn’t just materialise in the middle of the river as the boat got to it.

      • Kate says:

        Yes, it’s true that the coxswain maintained a steady course so they did see the pole . . . but it’s also the coxswain’s job to look around the rowers to make sure that there’s nothing in the way. I was a pretty short coxswain compared to my rowers, so I constantly had to peek around them to make sure there was nothing in the way.

        There’s no excuse for not seeing that pole-it’s not like it jumped out of nowhere . . .

  12. Chicknstu says:

    I don’t get it

  13. Bah says:

    STOP ROWING!

  14. oleschri says:

    Hey, did I hear someone say “stop rowing?”

  15. KV says:

    What the crap?? Idiots.

  16. raskin says:

    “STOP ROWING! STOP ROWING! AAAAAAAAH!”

    classic.

  17. lime says:

    First…………fail or win?

  18. Arrian says:

    That was Oaribble.

  19. erklaerbaer says:

    BTW steering fail.
    The rowers do their very best.

  20. LOLFACE says:

    FUCK YOU ALL HAHAHAH

    fags

  21. cicili says:

    “CHANGE YOUR COARSE!!!”
    Now, change your pants!

  22. Failerella says:

    the guy yelling sounds like the guy at the end of that one Pink Floyd song – I kept expecting him to yell that if they hit the pole they couldn’t have any pudding…

  23. abstract says:

    24ND my mom, used to row crew

  24. Cloral says:

    I don’t know that this quite qualifies as a failboat, but at least it is close…

  25. toth says:

    Coxswain fail?

  26. munch says:

    I like the audible “OOwww!” from the boat, as the last rower looks at his arm as if to start crying from a booboo. :)

  27. AlleyQ says:

    THe command isn’t “stop rowing,” it’s “weigh enough.” Either that, or get your port rowers to row harder to AVOID the pole. Therefore, this is a coxswain fail.

    • EdTheREd says:

      The coxswain’s command to a crew isn’t “stop rowing,” but the referee’s command to a cox *is*.

      The ref’s first instruction was for the coxswain to correct his course (he could also have said “OBSTACLE!”)…when it became clear that a course adjustment would take too long, the ref switched to “STOP ROWING!” Which they should have done.

      Big time coxswain fail.

      • Dr Hugh says:

        I don’t think it would have mattered if he had shouted “WEDDING TACKLE” or “DEAD HERRING” or anything else. I would have been tempted to throw a half brick, anchor or possibly a boat hook at the cox to get his attention.

    • cicili says:

      What language is it that you UNDERSTAND?

    • SuffusionOfYellow says:

      FAIL. You’ve given the command for US rowers. That isn’t the universal command. It may well not be understood in, say, Australia. Which is where I reckon this video is from, judging by the accents.

      “Stop rowing!” should be pretty clear to anyone who speaks English, though.

    • someone who knows much more than alleyq says:

      ITS NOT WEIGH ENOUGH, its HOLD WATER (USA) or HOLD HER HARD (UK) both mean emergency stop.

      alleyq….your are the worst kind of dumb

  28. Avis says:

    Ok, this is killing me. Does any one else have the “hilarious costumes” advert?
    Have you looked at the one for the genie? Specifically the wording on the costume?

    • scott says:

      I turn your irony WIN into a painfully obvious FAIL.

      And Marius, I wouldn’t bet against it being a giant Allen.

  29. Blåbär says:

    hahahahaha xD

  30. Hermes says:

    this is the dumbest fail that i have seen here.

  31. Carlos says:

    That coxswain is an idiot, i’ve never seen anything like that. I’m amazed that no one was seriously hurt. i thought there would have been a few more ejections. oh man…. rowing isn’t for everyone.

  32. Dabamash says:

    Ooops. I accidenty the boat.

  33. Jay Ray says:

    ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

  34. So disappointed... says:

    …that they didn’t row straight away into the pole, and all dump into the river.

  35. cooliehawk says:

    And they say men shouldn’t listen to their cox.

  36. Soph says:

    Crap, and I thought missing my race by twenty minutes was bad enough. At least I didn’t fucking break the 20,000 DOLLAR BOAT.

  37. KC says:

    Did you see that one guy fell into the water?

    • AsTheCrowFlies says:

      no, but I saw him “fall” into the water, and then after he “fell” I saw him not falling anymore

  38. panda says:

    Up a creek without… 1… 2… 3 paddles? Four? Anyone count?

  39. ducksinthewind AZ says:

    it occurs to me that the dummy in the stern, the one that doesnt do any paddling, is supposed to be steering. that would be why they are facing forward….

    where the posts and stuff are.

  40. bubblepup13 says:

    It’s a shame no one was warning them. someone should have yelled “stop rowing” or something like that.

  41. Thisisagreatplace says:

    Well I’ll be! This guy’s hindsight must be 20/FAIL.

  42. Sara J says:

    Now, now… what’s the row all about?

  43. A minute’s silence for the kayak. :’(

    Except for me. SOMEBODY HAS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS OBSERVING THE SILENCE. >:(

  44. Mr Win says:

    They were Women, what do you expect.

  45. Jonathan says:

    Anyone recognize the crew? I think it’s UW. It looks like Seattle.

  46. deaddrift says:

    Some of these fails fail so hard at being worthy of failblog that words escape me.

    What the F*&%! A crew team hits a pole?

    LAME.

  47. poopinator says:

    I am Poopdor, poopinating the countryside

  48. bzzhuh says:

    WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TRY TO WARN THEM?

    • thepowerofblue says:

      [Bush administration]
      No one could have forseen the presence of a pole in the water.
      [/Bush administration]

  49. Wilfred says:

    *balancing oar on head* Ta-da! *little applause, audible cough*

  50. zeonchar says:

    I love the guy screaming, “STOP ROWING!!!”

  51. lumpitylump says:

    oh man, if the principal of this school new about this he’d shit himself. Its a school from the GPS competition in Australia, they’re a really upper class school in sydney, and they are VERY prided about their success in rowing… (they USUALLY do pretty well in the schools competition)

  52. Jamie says:

    Wow, that was quite an impressive failure, and they can’t say loudmouth didn’t warn them.

    This is my first time posting on this site, what normally happens here? Just reading through the comments I’ve been stunned by the intelligent discourse, not at all what I was expecting. Then there are all the way to the endless “First” posts, which is kind of what I thought blog comments would be.

  53. QQQ says:

    some bitches dont get it

  54. Hermes says:

    Rowing is for tards

  55. Brit in America says:

    I believe that this is either an Oxford or Cambridge boat doing a warm up piece a couple of weeks before that do their varsity race around easter time. By the way the eights are usually worth around £20,000 which would make it about 32,000USD then you have to add on the 8 oars at around £300 a pop. Not a cheap toy. The people in the boat are highly trained athletes at the top of their game, they will usually train for about 5 hours a day, everyday. The boats are usually packed full of olympians and world class athletes with nothing better to do than take a year out to do a ‘masters’ and try to win one of the most coveted events in the rowing world.

    • SuffusionOfYellow says:

      No, this is an Aussie school. You must have been away from the UK a long time to think it can look that warm in Britain in February/March…

      Although a few years back the Cambridge crew did pile at full speed into 15 tonne launch, and about 20 years earlier, Cambridge managed to wreck their boat on a barge while going up to the start…

  56. cawe says:

    hehehe… funny video… :)

  57. Gollum says:

    On a scale of 1 to FAIL I give this a meh.

  58. Lol says:

    Typical private school kids

  59. See Man says:

    “If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?!”

  60. ryszard says:

    My girlfriend lives a quarter of a mile from the Chattahoochee River in north Georgia and typically rows 2-3 times a week, plus competitions. (But she doesn’t visit this blog, which is why I’m commenting.)

    The technically-correct command to stop rowing is “Weigh Enough”–possibly to keep crews from being confused by trolls on the shore shouting things like, “Stop rowing!”

    Coxswains (“coxes”), male and female, are typically built like jockeys, e.g., tiny, and often cannot see over or around the crew to the water ahead. They rely on coaches in separate launches to guide them around obstacles–and the correct command from coach to cox is, “Weigh Enough.” Referees don’t enter into it. [Someone above said the "referee's" command was "Stop Rowing"--not so.]

    My girlfriend and her team get LOTS of practice in all of this, as the ‘Hooch is not straight, is shallow and rocky, and may be occupied by many other craft while they are practicing. Which makes them KILLERS when they are put on an unobstructed competitive course!

    Richard
    Atlanta GA

    • SuffusionOfYellow says:

      Except, the technically correct term in this case would have been “hold it up” or “hold hard” depending on which English speaking country you are in. If you’re in the US (which your girlfriend is but the Australian crew ramming the giant pole isn’t) then “weigh enough” is the command where you stop rowing but allow the boat to glide serenely onwards under its own momentum. Not a good call when the boat is about to hit a giant pole.

  61. Awesome says:

    LOL did u heer the guy? “NO! STOP ROWING! STOP ROWING! THERE’S A POLE!! STOP ROWING!!” man. priceless……

  62. eric says:

    “did he say stop rowing? Or start Rowing. Cant tell the differnce. Well lets start rowing some more shall we.”

  63. sanDmAN says:

    STOP ROWING!!!! STOP ROWING!!! WATCH THE POLE!!!

  64. knob says:

    Damn glad these coments are normally hidden…thought i might get some extra info on the video , but thats not gonna happen with so many tools posting rubish like this

  65. Kyle says:

    That’s my school…*sigh*

  66. adam says:

    lol well croker oars, which these are, i have a set for my boat, – for just the standards, £300 each, that $600 each, x4 broken =$2400 ……if they where superlights like mine then £500 each, $1000 so $4000

    expensive fail anyway!

    • JB Whatchacallit says:

      Since you’ve done this before, I’ve always had a question about the sport. Can the rowers actually hear and understand the coach? The distance plus all of the water splash must make this difficult (esp Olympic crew)? Was that why they didn’t react?

  67. katara says:

    EPIC COXYN FAIL
    yeah your supposed 2 say “way enough”
    but that works too if you saved a bunch of money on your boat insurance by switiching to geico

  68. katara says:

    yeah as a 3rd year rower ive seen one of our own new coxyns steer one of our 4s into a concret pillar and just bout broke the boat.
    ive also seen our coach hit a fence with our boats on the trailer and break bout the last foot off the end of it

  69. Dane says:

    i was there when that happen , the guy that fell out of the boat broke his arm funny though , go riverview

  70. hotfuzz459 says:

    stupid fuckheads

  71. j-money says:

    coxswain fail!

  72. JonnoJ says:

    Intelligence fail. Hearing fail.

  73. cAS says:

    this is another way how gymnastics prevents a guy from getting layed….lol

  74. he said stop rowing like 5 times


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