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Dick and Peter Dreissigacker

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“Wanted Aerob Yeah, I think we had a great idea for altitude training, but we didn't really understand it or know how to do it. So we got quite fit, but not fast. And there were a lot of good pair rowers.”
2024-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we had an interesting plan, I guess you'd say Our plan was to drive across the country and do altitude training. We would camp and row and it was great conditioning. I mean, some of the lakes we found were like two miles high.”
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“I guess when you jump into a boat, you say, Well, I can do this. You know, this is nothing. Look at all these people out there. And you get in there and you realize you have no clue of what to do. And that puts you at very disadvantage for the first time you go out there. Then what happened is that after my sort of discus throwing was done with, Dick said, well, why don't you come down and we can row a pair together, we'll get in the boat, teach how to row. I think I picked it up pretty quickly. We got into some races and we beat some people in pairs and when you beat people, you feel good about the sport all of a sudden when you start doing well.”
2024-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Something clicked with you and rowing because you then got into it, certainly when your brother was the coach at Stanford, you got more involved. Tell me how that happened. How did you go from hating it to all of a sudden? On me, but all of a sudden, but to liking it”
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“Not bad, not bad, not bad. This is something I'm curious about because you hated rowing when you first tried it in 1972 or something. When you first tried it in Philadelphia, you didn't like it. But eventually...”
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“Yeah, it wasn't right away. It wasn't really until we got into doing a couple of classes together that had to do with starting a business and writing a business plan. Right. And oddly enough, our business plan was called Concept two. The product design program that I was in, there was a final year-long project. And I had chosen to work with North Face company on a backpack project. And we used that as the subject of our business plan.”
2024-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Of course, I was athletic. And so he said, why don't you try rowing? And I said, okay, great. So he put me in a single, which is, it's got to be about 10 inches wide, I think, this single, and pushed me off the dock. And in Philadelphia, there's a dam just downstream from the boat houses. I sort of drifted around out there trying not to flip over. I really thought I was petrified. I really couldn't move. And boats were coming right at me, and I had to shout out to say, stop. I can't move. And finally, I sort of picked my way around and got back to the dock, but it was probably half an hour later before I got back to the dock. That was my first experience. Terrible.”
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“Discus, right? In shock. Discus and shot foot. I mean, I was sort of in high school, I ended up getting fairly good at discus. Part of it also threw the discus in high school and this kind of he and his buddies would practice out in the field and I'd be the little brother out in the field throwing it back to them. And so as they got better and better, I got better and better too to get it back all the way to them. And so by the time Dick graduated from high school, I was basically throwing as far as he was when I just got into high school.”
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“I've been on the national team for a couple of years. Went back to Vesper. There were a couple of other guys that were there and we started to row and continued to improve over the summer. And we started winning smaller races. And we wound up winning the trials. But it was kind of an uphill battle. I think we peaked at the trials. And then very shortly after we were over on the course in Munich, I think we were quite ready to make the jump from trials to the Olympics and we didn't do as well as we thought.”
2024-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I'm kind of bearing the lead here, which is you were really good at this, like you would eventually be part of five U.S. champion teams between 1970 and 1972, and in 72 you made the US Olympic team. You went to Munich to row for the United States.”
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“I think it is the team aspect of it that draws you in because you're doing it with, in the case of the college AIDS, you're doing it with these seven other guys. So there's a real kind of bonding effect there. And you know that you're not in it alone in these other guys are relying on you to do your best”
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“Synchronously. It's not like even on a basketball team or soccer team, you're working together, but rowing is different. You are literally doing the same movement, motion exactly in time in order to win.”
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“I played football for two years But I started rowing freshman year. I had seen it in New Haven. I watched the Yale crew row at least once or twice on Houstonic. And I said, well, you know, that's kind of an interesting sport that looks like it would be good for me. You know, it looks like I'd be built for it. And, you know, Rowan's one of these things that if you're so inclined, it's very easy to get hooked on. It's a different than most sports because it's very team-oriented, yet it's a race. There aren't too many sports that's both a race and a team. And a team where you have to work together totally.”
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“It was a little bit Norman Rockwell, I guess. Bike riding, you know, zooming through the neighborhoods. Of their kids. We did the things that people did, went to visit grandparents and cousins and did plenty of stuff. And then, of course, in school, we did sports all the time in school.”
2024-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Concept2 Rowing Machines: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of the sport and their engineering know how. The luck came from the CrossFit movement, which embraced the rowing machine and helped to popularize it. The machines are still assembled in Vermont where the brothers first began putting them together. Peter and Dick were trained as engineers and their dad was an engineer too. They grew up in the 1950s and 60s near New Haven, Connecticut”
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“Level rowers who were looking for a way to get an edge on the competition. They started by making something that was totally new at the time, ores made from carbon fiber instead of wood. These ores were lighter and faster and more durable, but after a few years the brothers realized the market for selling ores to competitive rowers is decidedly limited, so they eventually moved towards the product that they're now best known for. Stationary rowing machines, machines that capture the sensation of being on the water. Now, at the time, the product was still very niche, but today you'll find Concept 2 rowers and fitness centers all around the world. And how did they do that? Well, as regular fans of this show may have guessed, it was a mixture of luck and skill. The skill came from Peter and Dick's deep knowledge.”
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“In the 90s, we were making some attempts to make it mainstream in clubs. And we said, we have got this great idea. You need at least 10 machines, we'll train your staff to instruct how to row in a team kind of workout. And that was the same year that spinning started.”
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