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The Plan of Jenifer Humming To Expand?The Sport

?Of Long-Distance?Rowing/Sculling to Make Enough Money

To Save The World Since She Will Be Doing It Anyway.

I am an inventor starting with an already successfully marketed ground-breaking medical device, quite a few fitness sports-related inventions in prototype stage and a longer-range very large renewable energy project I am strategizing to fund by monetizing every last little thing I do anyway. I have always monetized my lifestyle. It?s so much better than working.

Coming from a background of an avid sportswoman in the sports of tennis, sailing, snow skiing, competition mountain biking, century road cycling (100 mile events), heavy weight training and a long-time a long-distance sculler, I am extremely conscious of the importance of a consistent lifestyle of exercise and fitness as being essential to human well-being.

20 years ago I was among the pioneers of the sport of mountain biking ? one of the very few woman racers back then. I also wrote a mountain biking publication that made me a celebrity with avid mountain bikers in the South East and was approached by the Office of Economic Development in the Capital of Alabama to arrange to make my publication a regional magazine.

My background prior to becoming an inventor was I designed and hosted an intense boot-camp health retreat. I am, succinctly put, a health and fitness expert/innovator who lives my beliefs congruently. I am a curiously gifted athlete in strength and endurance. There is a reason why I can do what I can do and I can impart how to go about achieving the same results as well as providing essential tools/accessories.

My intention is to be a major influence to expand the sport of sculling/rowing in the direction of long-distance (both flat and open water). As apart of this plan, I am preparing to break the world long distance sculling record.

Open water rowing and long distance (I mean REAL long distance) rowing is the fastest growing expansion area of sport steeped in tradition. Just as mountain biking expanded the sport of cycling, expanding the sport of rowing in this direction will have the same impact. The advent of Mountain biking only 25 years ago has sparked the innovation of entirely different geometry, materials, components and construction parameters for the bikes as well as an entirely different style of riding. They both involve bikes, but as a former competition mountain biker and seasoned road century cyclist, I can tell you they are two different sports! Mountain biking has probably more than doubled the equally traditionally steeped sport of cycling in this short of time. The same can be done with rowing/sculling,

To give you a frame-of-reference, Google long-distance sculling. You will find mostly references to ?Head Races? which are 3 miles. In conventional rowing, that is considered long-distance. Last time out I rowed 36 miles non-stop, and my longest row to date was 50 miles on March 12th. (Great Story: Deluge Aftermath Pitch Dark Sculling, 101) The record I will be breaking is 104 miles. I am not exaggerating to tell you I am in a minority.

Point of information: the words rowing and sculling are used interchangeably but technically sculling involves two oars and rowing is one oar with a crew.

I see myself being a pioneer in rowing by expanding the sport not so much to open water, which I mentioned before is my background, but to true long-distance rowing. Just by the nature of the distances involved and the variables of weather and traffic conditions, long-distance rowing will require open water-worthy boats and rowers with open water rowing skills. The market for this is:

?? Marathon runners, tri-athletes, century cyclists ? looking for a sport that does not risk their lives or ruin their joints ? that they can do well into their senior years

?? Established sculler/rowers who want to take their participation in the sport to another level

?? People who are mesmerized by the elegance and beauty of sculling and rowing and want to enter the sport in a way that is accessible and embracing.

? Novice high school and college athletes and teams with possible Olympic aspirations to gain an unprecedented competitive edge.

? Cities and countries wishing to raise their status in the world by supporting, hosting and excelling in one of the most elegant and fastest?growing sports on the globe.

I know from experience in the medical field that governing entities are often self-appointed. US Rowing and FISA probably are too.?I wish to establish The Global Rowing Club as a promoting and standard-setting entity for the expansion of the sport of long-distance rowing world-wide.

Therefore, innovation of boats to be appropriate for an entirely different objective in the sport of rowing could be ?sanctioned? by the entity that rules the new sport.

I have several rowing-related inventions already prototyped and well-tested and a couple of versions of rowing machines that train not only for strength but for balance and form that I want to prototype soon. And I am also getting quite a bit of attention for a radical new boat design drawing I posted that Rowing Illustrated discovered before I even launched the site. I still haven?t really launched it.

Once I have these products available, promoting long-distance rowing as a booming expansion-area of the sport of rowing worldwide will be quite lucrative.

I want to have my products at least far enough along to where I have production models available for people to see and be able to take orders. I then will arrange with rowing clubs all over the country and beyond, to visit and hold long-distance sculling clinics and long-distance rowing events to draw in participants from near-bye clubs at first, then father afield as the events become established. This will be appealing to a lot of people who wish they could stay in their boats longer, but haven?t solved the problems for how to do it logistically. I have.

It will also expand the sport by enticing accomplished masters athletes to get into the elegant sport of sculling/rowing from other endurance sports like I did, such as: marathon runners, tri-athletes, century cyclists ? who are ready to move on to a sport that does not risk their lives or ruin their joints ? that they can do well into their senior years

Conducting these clinics would not only involve divulging my secrets for how to stay in the boat for long periods of time, but also demonstrating my innovative free-weight, body-weight and isometric training techniques that build the necessary muscles for the kind of strength and endurance that is called for in rowing marathons.

My plan for how to tie my rowing into my grand renewable energy vision is coming into form. That I haven?t been exactly sure of the specifics of my strategy is why I have made no effort to promote this website yet. It just got discovered because of the new boat, and that still is the source of most of my traffic ? so I can only assume that if I produce this boat in whatever the final form will be, that it will be popular whether it can be raced in US Rowing events or not.

While visiting rowing clubs to hold clinics, part of the program would be holding an informal long-distance row, say a 50 miler ? perhaps a 25 mile out-and-back where anyone who wants to participate can put in at various places along the course to row predetermined distances according to their abilities.?Or probably a better idea would be a 12.5 mile out and back (on rivers) going two directions with the rowing club in the center, giving participants two times to start if they want to row along with me: when I start and when I pass the rowing club halfway through.?If it is held on a Sunday after a Saturday clinic and they purchase some of my accessories, they may find they can row many more miles immediately. We could arrange to video these weekends and I would post them on the website edited into fun and amusing mini-documentaries under 10 minutes so they can be put up on YouTube.

From doing this at numerous clubs that are located on conducive bodies of water, regular yearly events would inevitably evolve that would be ?sanctioned? Global Rowing Club events. This would provide the impetus for growth in sales of all boats, including open water boats: that there are more events to appeal to and draw in the vast market of long-distance endurance athletes looking for cross-training and new challenges. That?s what got me into it. It would grow the sport of rowing simply by offering a branch of the sport that is not already dominated by the conservatism of long-standing tradition (something I admire but see as problematic in many ways). For new people, it can be intimidating ? just like serious road cycling racing is intimidating because the sport is populated by competitive elitist egotists. I loved mountain biking because everybody was friendly and helpful to each other. I went from there to being heavily involved with century cycling and found the general attitude of road cyclists to be very off-putting.

Another project ahead is to establish a ?Bed & Breakfast & Rowing? resort with a large genteel house or small charming hotel and additional cabins for guests to stay on-sight ? that not only offers instruction and training in rowing for Juniors to Masters from all over the world, but offers the benefits of my health retreat background, an organic cafe, a work-shop staffed with capable artisans for maintaining, refurbishing and fine-tuning our center?s and guest?s boats, a resident rigging expert, a fleet of sculls and sweeps fully equipped with Speed Coaches and additional fitness training and recreational options ? on a sizable lake. I searched for a place like that to go last year as a guest, and it does not exist. Therefore, such a center located in a strategic year-round destination would have a world-wide draw.