500m SprintPersonal Best
1:35.5
HK Indoor Rowing Championships
Chapter 02 · Sport
New Rowing Club · 2023 - Present · Pinghe School Rowing Team since 2026
Competitive
Rowing.
Six to eight hours on the water every week. World #6 ranking. Shanghai Rowing Open 2026: 4th, Mixed Quad. Shanghai Dream Regatta 2026: Gold & Bronze. Nanjing 2026: Gold & Silver. The discipline that shapes everything else.
#6
World Ranking · U19 Relay
6-8h
Training per week
3
Years competing
1:35.5
500m PR (Indoor)
Chapter One
The
The
Discipline.
5:30am, cold dock, first stroke is always ugly. By the tenth, your body remembers. New Rowing Club and Pinghe School: year-round, no off-season, six to eight hours a week.
Rowing teaches you what happens to technique when you're destroyed. At 1200m of a 2000m piece, every instinct says shorten the stroke. Holding form when it costs the most: that's the whole sport.
"The water doesn't care how you feel. It only responds to what you actually do."
I run video analysis and race-day prep for the team. Your body lies to you about what your stroke looks like; the video doesn't.
Weekly Volume
6-8h
Year-round, no off-season
Technical Focus
Splits
Frame-by-frame technique review
Formats
Sculls & Sweep
Dual-discipline: quad sculls and sweep eight
Chapter Two
Personal
Personal
Records.
My 2000m is now 7:18.8 on the Concept2 erg (U14, October 2026), down from 7:28.9, which already sat at the 83rd percentile for U14, faster than 83% of competitors worldwide, with no dedicated indoor training block. Every PR was earned in the last quarter, when the only question is how much you'll hurt.
1000m MiddlePersonal Best
3:33
HK Indoor Rowing Championships
2000m StandardPersonal Best
7:18.8
Concept2 · U14 · October 2026 · Down from 7:28.9 (83rd Percentile · Faster than 83%)
Chapter Three
On the
On the
International
Stage.
From the Huangpu River to the world stage. World #6 at WRICH 2026. Shanghai Rowing Open 2026: 4th, Mixed Quad. Shanghai Dream Regatta 2026: Gold & Bronze. Nanjing 2026: Gold & Silver, dual-discipline at open water level.
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Sep 2026Shanghai Rowing Open 2026Mixed Quad Sculls (4×) · Suzhou Creek, city-centre course · Pinghe School crew4thMixed 4×
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May 2026Sculls & SweepShanghai Dream Regatta 2026Men's Doubles (2×) · University Men's Eights (8+) · Open water outdoor competitionGoldUniversity Men's Eights8+ · SweepingBronzeMen's Doubles2× · ScullingGold+ Bronze
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Apr 2026Sculls & SweepNanjing Rowing Masters & Youth Club LeagueQuad Sculls (4×) · Mixed Eight Sweep (8+) · Dual-discipline open water competitionGoldMixed Eight Sweep8+ Mixed · SweepingSilverQuad Sculls4× · ScullingGold+ Silver
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Mar 2026WRICH 2026 · World Rowing Indoor ChampionshipsU19 Mixed 5000m Relay & U17 Men 1000m · International competition#6 WorldU19 Mixed Relay
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Mar 2026WRICH 2026 · World Rowing Indoor ChampionshipsU17 Men 1000m · Individual event#29 WorldU17 Men 1000m
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2026HKRIC 2026 · HK Rowing Indoor ChampionshipsU14-16 Men 1000m · 2000m time: 7:28.9#8U14-16 Men 1000m
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2026SSSA Indoor Rowing Championship 2026U16 Male Relay · Shanghai Secondary School AthleticsChampionU16 Male Relay
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2026HK Indoor Rowing Championships500m · 1000m · 2000m: personal bests set across all three distancesPB SetAll 3 Distances
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2025Shanghai Youth Open 2025Multiple events: strongest domestic showing of the season2× Silver4× Bronze
Photo Archive
On the
On the
water.
The Takeaway
What rowing
What rowing
built in me.
At 1600m of the WRICH relay, everything either falls apart or locks in. I held it: not willpower, but three years of trained habit. That same instinct shows up everywhere: staying calm when an autonomous routine fails mid-run, holding structure when a debate case gets torn apart. Rowing rewired how I handle pressure.
Transferable Skill
Pressure Execution
Trained instinct under race conditions. Transfers to every competition.
Transferable Skill
Data-Driven Improvement
Every split logged. Gut feeling is unreliable; measurement is honest.
Transferable Skill
Team Synchronisation
Matching rhythm with people who are just as wrecked as you.
Built From It
Rowing
Rowing
Lab.
The ergometer has told me my split every stroke for three years. It has never once told me why. I built the thing that answers the second question.
Built by George Hu · Shipped, paid, bilingual
The gap I felt myself
I was the first user
I did not survey a market. I wanted a thing that did not exist, for me, on a Tuesday morning: proof that the change I made to my catch was the change I thought I made. Building what you personally need is the only brief where you can tell instantly whether the answer is any good.
How I had to learn it
Nobody teaches this at fourteen
Pose estimation, stroke segmentation, projective geometry, dynamic time warping. None of it was on a syllabus. I read papers until the notation stopped being noise, implemented the wrong version twice, and kept the version that survived being checked against footage of my own rowing.
Where the detail went
Nine checks, not one score
A single number tells a rower nothing they can act on. So every stroke is scored on nine separate bands and each one returns a proportion, with the interval widening honestly when there were only a few strokes to look at. Being precise about uncertainty is harder than sounding confident, and it is the part I care most about.
Who it is really for
Written twice, on purpose
Chinese junior rowing is growing far faster than the supply of coaches who can analyse technique. Every screen exists in English and Simplified Chinese, and the WeChat Mini Program is a real native build rather than a wrapped page, because a rower in a club here should get the same instrument as one in a funded Western programme.
Someone I will never meet has now uploaded a video of their rowing and been told something true about it. That is a stranger reason to get out of bed than any medal I have won.
Pace Lab
Enter a split.
Enter a split.
See how it stacks up.
500m
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PR1:35.5
1000m
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PR3:33
2000m
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PR7:18.8
2000m race pacing strategy: four 500m segments
Faster
On target
Slower
PRs on Concept2 erg. Watts via Concept2 formula: 2.80 ÷ (split/500)³. Green = faster than George's PR.
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Full Record · Awards
All Results
Every split, every medal. World #6, Dream Regatta, Nanjing: the full competitive record, one page.
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