Zwift Rowing and Skiing

I’d like to row on Zwift’s waters. I tried EXR and it’s just TOO limited route wise.

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We have no plans in the near to medium term (read as next 24 months or so) to add Rowing or Skiing to Zwift.

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One baby step for rowing would be when we get banding support for club rides. The power averaging at least simulates being in a boat with other rowers. You could argue that banding is actually a lot more like rowing than cycling. We did a couple of rows/rides in my PainSledders club then I pretty much iced it until we get banding, FWIW.

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That’s likely coming shortly. We still have no plans to develop rowing in the short to medium term.

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Yup, totally get that. Probably an unpopular opinion on this thread, which I have been on for a few years, but speaking as the PainSled / RowedBiker developer, if I were Zwift I wouldn’t divert to add rowing either.

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There’s already skiing of course :slight_smile:

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By skiing, I assume you are referring to taking hairpin turns at 70kph on ice while descending the Alpe? :slight_smile:

I meant the guy recently using some sort of skierg with a watts multiplier to blow away A+ riders in a ZRL race. And post his stream up on youtube and FB :slight_smile:

Crap, hope he wasn’t using RowedBiker :crying_cat_face:

He was using PainSled I think (Zwift Racing League - Ski Erg - YouTube).

But he did apologise and say he wasn’t going to race WTRL (ZRL) any more using it.

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Oh right, PainSled Android, that would make sense.

I got a rower during the brief period when Zwift said it would support rowing…Doh.
Still enjoy the rower, and probably would have gotten it anyway, but zwift was the tipping point, so again…doh.

That said I link it via painsled and run paths and find that quite enjoyable. Doing the Tour de Zwift as we speak, riding the rides and rowing the runs.

Still…PUT ROWING IN.

Also, add a “weight room” so i can do zwift weight lifting.

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Who wants rowing on Zwift? I have recently injure my leg and looks like running is starting to catch up with my body. I recently got into rowing and there is anything out there much for rowers. I ask the Zwift Team and they said this needs to get attention from the Zwift community to get the devs attention. So here is my first post.

We need rowing Modules!! Zwift could own the market for this!!!

Who’s with me? :slight_smile:

Search the forum for other threads on this. Rowing was ‘imminent’ for a while, but now appears to be on the back burner for the foreseeable future.

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You are going to have to wait a long time I am guessing, Eric Min says it is not coming any time zoon.

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Funny. In June he said the complete opposite…

But then they asked cyclists if they wanted rowing via a survey that wasn’t theirs…

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Rowing on Zwift is already possible:
How to use your Concept2 Rower on Zwift

It works flawless for me and is great fun. I don´t care if my avatar is a rower or a cyclist.

Who wants rowing

Since you ask. Not me. Sorry

I joined Zwift specifically for cycling and am getting quite frustrated at the slow progress of fixing & improving the cycling content. My perception is that the addition of rowing just further slows this progress.

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I’m about to hit level 39, 95% on a rower so yeah, you can do it, if you are OK with treating it as a fitness game that you happen to control with a rower. I have a blog post about how to do it with a couple of apps I developed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38157103

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