Previously described by a journalist as the "Rowing Enigma", Dirk Uittenbogaard has been on the international rowing scene since 2006. Originally a footballer Dirk made the switch to rowing and has never looked back, winning a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and becoming World Champion in 2019 as part of the outstanding Dutch Mens Quad.

In this interview Martin asks Dirk about his use of a sports psychologist in recent years, meditation, how the dutch team now only use RP3 machines instead of Concept 2s and tries to understand just what happened between the 2018 and 2019 seasons that made them so much faster!

The full interview has been split into three parts, this is the first part of the three.

0:00 Introductions and how to pronounce ‘Uittenbogaard’
0:45 What are you doing for training during lockdown?
1:30 Do all 4 members of the squad train together when you’re out in singles?
1:50 Where do you fit into the ranking of the Dutch scullers?
2:35 You won a world cup in the single?
3:00 What’s your fastest time in a single?
3:40 Have you been out in the 4x?
4:20 How did you react to the news of the Olympic cancellation?
6:00 Have you come to terms with it and be able to focus on 2021?
7:05 Did you read Mahe Drysdale’s blog about the dip in motivation he experienced?
8:15 Will you continue to Paris?
9:15 As a full time athlete, what’s life like, can you see yourself in another light?
10:20 You played football before, how did you transfer to rowing?
11:55 Was it love at first sight with rowing or did it take a while?
13:25 You weren’t in Sarasota in 2017, why was that?
15:00 Reading interviews you’ve done in the past, one calls you the “Rowing Enigma”, why do you have that title?
16:20 So you’re a socially skilled introvert? You’ve been using a sports psychologist recently, what drove that decision?
17:40 How has it helped you? How are you different?
19:10 Have you heard of the term imposter syndome? Did you have similar thoughts?
20:00 Do you do exercises or was it simply the process of discussing it that helped?
20:25 Do you use the app headspace?
21:25 Do any of your teammates do the same or is it just you?

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