November 2003,
Yes! We finally did it! We're holding our first local
race this weekend as part of Tempe Aloha Week on
November 23. We've got 8 corporate teams and 2 teams
from the AZDBA. Along with the Dragon Boat race, there will be outrigger
races and crew races. We've got 15 crew boats and 6 outriggers. We've
been getting a bit of news coverage on TV, radio and the newspapers, too
which will can only really help our first festival planned for March 20-21. The members of the corporate teams are joining in the
spirit. None of the paddlers had ever even heard
of dragon boating before they signed up for it.
Now they're all having fun learning to steer, drum, paddle and wear wholly
unattractive and outrageous headgear.
During the past few months I've appreciated the phone calls and the emails from all providing advice on planning our March Festival.
I've also appreciated the interest you've
expressed in coming out in March. I'll still be
calling and emailing all of you with questions during the next 4 months.
See you here in March,
Marcie
AZDBA, President
www.azdba.com
Hi
Everyone
A
fellow paddler came across the following Conference Notes from the Dragon
North 2003 Conference in
Vancouver
,
British Columbia
,
Canada
back in
March 14-16, 2003
. F!
or a new paddler, there is a depth of information and theory about physiology,
paddling, racing, and coaching that I find interesting and thought others
might benefit from the information as well.
http://members.shaw.ca/DragonNorth/Dragon%20North%202003%20conference%20notes.pdf
25th Anniversary Dragon Boat Race in Penang scheduled on 7-8/06/2003
Postponed to 19-20/06/2004
Due to unforeseen & unavoidable
circumstances arising from the current world situations (Iraq War & SARS),
I’m sad to announce that after very serious considerations, the Penang
Dragon Boat Association has decided that the 25th Anniversary Penang
International Dragon Boat Festival 2003 scheduled on 7 – 8 June 2003
@ the Teluk Bahang Dam will be postponed to 19 – 20
June 2004. Any inconvenience caused by this unfortunate postponement is very
much regretted. Our sincere apologies! Fresh invitations will be sent to
you again later this year. We shall try to maintain the accommodation package
& all the facilities offered this year for the 25th APIDBF 2004 next
year.
I sincerely hope that you will still consider to accept the new dates &
come to Penang for this delayed historical commemorative event next year.
Thanks for the great support. Happy paddling & bye!
Best regards,
Chin Yin Fat
11-12/07/2003
All Western US cancer & breast cancer teams are invited to the 3rd
annual Kent Lion's Club Corncucopia Days Dragon Boat Races on beautiful Lake
Meridian in Kent, Wa. We have a general cancer division and are encouraging
any and all teams to attend our races. We have special dragon boat room
rates at a couple of our local motels. One is on the golf course @ $69.00 US
dollars complete with a great continental breakfast with eggs. The other
plain, clean and large rooms @$58.45. plus a continental breakfast. Contact
Cheryl Corbin -Race Director @ 253-735-6368--fax:253-735-4452-e-mail address
is
dandc1@juno.com
Thanks for your consideration !!
11/12/2002
The False Creek Racing Canoe Club and Water’s Edge Sports Performance are
pleased to offer you a preliminary invitation to;
The 2nd Annual Dragon Boat Coaching Conference,
Dragon North: Grassroots to Gold Medals
Vancouver, Canada
March 14-16, 2003.
This conference is a continuation of our very successful first annual
Dragon Boat Coaching Conference: Form and Function held last February 1-3,
2002. Over 100 coaches from across Canada and the US and 20 skilled presenters
were present in 2002, and we hope to improve on this record in 2003.
If you could circulate this document among the Dragon Boat coaches known to
your association or post the information on your website we would appreciate
your help in bringing Dragon Boat coaches together to learn.
Dragon North: Grassroots to Gold Medals is hosted by the False Creek Racing
Canoe Club and Water’s Edge Sports Performance and supported by the Coaching
Association of Canada.
For more information please contact Alan Carlsson
fcrcc@telus.net
Sincerely,
Alan Carlsson
Thanks so much for passing on the information to
www.dragon-boats.net
We are happy to post the information!
Good Luck with the course!
Jackie Maz
07/11/2002
Hi Jackie,
Thanks for the information.
I would like to announce the formation of a brand new dragon boat club. The
name of the club is The Grand Master Dragon Boat Club of Canada. This club is
formed members of the dragon boat community whose age is 55 years and up.
Paddlers who are from 50 - 55 may be accepted as associate members. Interested
and qualified paddlers are invited to contact Stephen Kwok, at
stephenkwok@rogers.com,
or call 416 235-5302 for detailed membership information.
Stephen Kwok
07/11/2002
This Saturday, November 9th, my uncle Richard (and others) are heading up
an event for people interesting in helping the start of Dragon Boat Racing
in Orange County. TRW "Water Dragon" team members and friends are
invited to come on down and share their excitement about dragon boating with
others on this day as well as go out paddling on the boat.
When: Start time is 9 AM
Where: Newport Aquatic Center -
http://www.newportaquaticcenter.com/
One Whitecliffs Drive
Newport Beach CA 92660
Who: Members and captain(s) of the LARD team and all those interested in
promoting Dragon Boat racing in Orange County
NOTE: While this is not designed to be a regular practice site for our TRW
team, everyone from the TRW team is welcome to practice there weekly. I'll be
there this Saturday, Nov. 9th to lend my support.
If you have any questions or know of people who live in the O.C. area who may
be interested in becoming part of the emerging Orange County dragon boat race
scene please have them contact Richard Thill at
ocdragonboat@juno.com
October 15/2002
Subject: OC Dragon Boating - this Saturday Nov. 9th
This Saturday, November 9th, my uncle Richard (and others) are heading up
an event for people interesting in helping the start of Dragon Boat Racing
in Orange County. TRW "Water Dragon" team members and friends are
invited to come on down and share their excitement about dragon boating with
others on this day as well as go out paddling on the boat.
When: Start time is 9 AM
Where: Newport Aquatic Center -
http://www.newportaquaticcenter.com/
One Whitecliffs Drive
Newport Beach CA 92660
Who: Members and captain(s) of the LARD team and all those interested in
promoting Dragon Boat racing in Orange County
NOTE: While this is not designed to be a regular practice site for our TRW
team, everyone from the TRW team is welcome to practice there weekly. I'll be
there this Saturday, Nov. 9th to lend my support.
If you have any questions or know of people who live in the O.C. area who may
be interested in becoming part of the emerging Orange County dragon boat race
scene please have them contact Richard Thill at ocdragonboat@juno.com
Thanks!
Mike
World
Club Crew Championships 2004, Osaka,
Japan
The Wong's Dragon Boat Club is
looking to form a serious Men's crew starting this fall 2002.
The goal is to win the entry for The 2004 World Club Crew Championships
in Osaka, Japan.
If you've ever dreamed of being part of a serious committed crew with goals
of winning at the World class level, you won't be disappointed. Join a Club
with a proven system of management and coaching that brought the Wong's mixed
team, Dragonslayers, to this year's World Club Crew Championships in Rome. 
This is open to all interested. We believe everyone has a chance to make
the team through commitment, hard work, sacrifice and above all, the attitude
to be a winner.
If you are interested, be sure to let us know at
wwsadragonboat@yahoo.com.
Regards,
Milton Hum
General Manager
Wong's Dragon Boat Club
Date: 09 July, 2002
Time: 07:19:10 PM
As a competitor or fan, we invite you to come to
The 12th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York, scheduled for
August 10 and 11, 2002. HKDBF-NY, a multi-cultural celebration and sporting
event, is the largest multi-cultural festival in New York, and the largest of
its kind in the United States. For eleven years, HKDBF-NY has attracted a
culturally diverse audience of more than 30,000 attendees. In 2001 more than
80 teams involving over 1,000 participants competed on the waters of Meadow
Lake in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, New York (the former home of
the World’s Fair and now site of the U.S. Tennis Stadium). For the 2002
competition, organizers expect the same number of teams, some coming from
around the country.
The races go off at 9:30 AM and continue throughout the day to 5 PM. Teams
compete in various divisions, including the U.S. Dragon Boat Open Championship
Race, with the winner receiving a $10,000 cash prize. Six new boats for the
competitors are in place for this year’s paddlers. Please visit our Website,
www.hkdbf-ny.org , to download
applications forms and access other general information.
The organizers have put together a travel package for out-of-town teams and
fans. Details also on the HKDBF-NY web site
www.hkdbf-ny.org
New York City’s first ever Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival and Race took
place 12 years ago with 11 paddling teams plying the waters of the Hudson
River to race along the shore line of lower Manhattan, in the shadow of the
former World Trade Center. A few years later it moved to its current location
in order to accommodate all the teams and a growing land festival featuring
arts and crafts, multi-cultural entertainment on the stage, a food court and
more.
Admission the HKDBF-NY is free, and scheduled ran-or-shine. It is easily
reached by car, or subway system from Manhattan or other boroughs
18th May 2002
Blind River Dragon Boat Races
The Town of Blind River Festivals Committee is working in partnership with the
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation in planning its first annual dragon boat
races. This event will create an excellent opportunity for family and friends to
participate in a fun and exciting physical activity together. Each boat,
measuring forty feet in length, needs a total of 20 strong paddlers, one
steersman, and a drummer. Entry fees are $1000 per boat and each paddler is
requested to raise at least $100 in pledges to be donated to CBCF (pledge forms
will be distributed upon registration). Over 20 boats are expected to enter in
our inaugural year. The race will take place at Berthelot Park, Blind River on
June
22, 2002 at 8am.
For more information, please call Festivals at 705-356-2251 x24, fax
705-356-4107 or email
blindriver@adss.on.ca
NEWSFLASH FROM NEW ZEALAND
14th May 2002
The Inaugural South Pacific Breast Cancer Regatta
· Dates have been confirmed as 15th-16th March 2003 for the Auckland
Dragon Boat Festival, which will take place in the Viaduct Harbour, Auckland.
As previously stated in the preliminary Invitation the weekend would commence
with an Opening Ceremony and Breast Cancer Teams Dinner on Friday Evening,
followed by two days of competition, camaraderie and fun.
During the week there will be loads of time for sightseeing/ leisure time
plus practice time available to all teams, before we all head off for another
weekend Regatta in our Capital City Wellington.
Dates for this regatta 22nd-23rd March 2003.
We are working hard to ensure you will all have a great time Down Under in
what will be our wonderful Summer.
So to remind you what's on offer here's the list again:
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team from Busting With Life can promise you an enjoyable and exciting 10
or more days in New Zealand summer-so what about it?
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Escape the worst of your winter and
come and visit us!
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practice sessions available for all teams
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accommodation available a short ride away from the to Viaduct
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Blue skies
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evening for supporters while paddlers are
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restaurants with great food
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All expressions of
interest in what will be a really exciting event please contact
Heather McLeish at
hmcleish@xtra.co.nz
10/04/2002
An article written in Germany about Alain Captain of the
Jetstart Team of Toronto. Follow the link for more.
http://www.supercanoa.de/people/people12.htm
12th
Edition 04/07/02
21/11/01
Hello
Dedicated
to the sport of Dragon-Boats.
We
are fast approaching 2002
If you manage a Dragon
Boat Race Festival please send us your
2002 race dates and contact information so we can update
our listing for your race to reflect the new information.
We would also greatly
appreciate a link from your site to ours.
If
you know of a race that's not on our list send us as much info as possible
and we will search for and confirm contact information.
Our
Team
list , If we have your team listed please check it
to ensure the url and contact
information is correct. If your team is not listed please send in
your info.
We would also greatly
appreciate a link from your site to ours.
We have a new area on
the site that is being developed with a focus on youth events and
contacts. If you run a Youth event or are interested in doing
support work ie coaching, safety boat etc. in your area please fill in the
form on the youth page and we will list you, your event or service enabling
interested parties to contact you.
This is a great way to
raise both the profile of the sport and your team or club.
Our
Site Supports
Cancer Research
Our website will be
going through a substantial revision in the later part of December. If
you have any suggestions, recommendations, wish list items send them in and
we will try our best to make it happen.
We incorporate the
updated information daily.
Happy Paddling and enjoy
a great upcoming season in 2002
Ramsay
06/11/01
Webcast: Re. options to treat breast cancer.
Internet meeting 14/11/01 open for questions to specialists. Webcast organized
by Dr. Mark Levine, a breast cancer specialist at the Hamilton Regional Cancer
Centre and chair of a Health Canada committee to develop national treatment
guide lines.
Some of the Participates are:
Dr. Mark Levine (as above and more)
Dr. Timothy Whelan
Director Supportive Cancer Care Research Unit, Hamilton Regional Cancer
Centre.
Dr. Hugh Scarth
Clinical Department Head of general surgery at St. John Regional Hospital
Dr. Maria Hugi
Canadian Breast Cancer Network in Vancouver
Chris Emery
Oncology Nurse, British Columbia Cancer Agency
And US
People from many walks of life with inquiring minds, a desire to improve
and a touch of net savvy.
An opportunity to learn !!!
06/11/2001
The world club crew championships are going to be held at Rome in 2002 and
right now three different regions of Canada are allowed to send one mixed, one
men's and one women's team.
10/30/01
According to the Minutes of the IDBF Congress meeting in Philadelphia in
August 2001 - Item 9.17 "...........the 3 Gorges Race ....a distance of
76 kilometres ..........recorded in the Guiness Book of Records as the longest
Dragon Boat Race in the World." There you have it.........
October 5 2001
There was a
meeting yesterday at the request of some individuals in
the sporting
community of Dragon Boat. It was basically a discussion on what to do with the
lands currently around the Unwin Street, which is the ugly Portland area where
GWN currently has it's downtown practices.
This group, made
up of city councillors, former Olympians, and sport
and civic
individuals wish to propose the building of the Port Lands
Watercourse and
Park for this area. It will basically be a watercourse,
to international
standards 2300m long, 140m wide and 4m deep. It will have a world class
Rowing, Flat Water Paddling and most importantly (ok a little bias here)
Dragon Boat capabilities.
There will be
over 2km of newly created beach, no concrete, increased park, a natural grass
style grandstand, improved bike trails, the capacity to hold triathlons,
running races (thus alleviating pollution in the downtown core), fishing,
swimming (read clean water) 2.3km of ice skating in the winter and would be
open to the general public for free. We, meaning
Dragon Boaters,
would have a clean water source to practice (no weird infections or repugnant
smells) and stage events, can anyone say good for a World Championship. It is
really an amazing venture to clean up the area and give the whole community,
sports enthusiasts and families alike, a place for safe and clean recreational
and sporting activities in Toronto. We would like to begin gathering
feedback from
the community if you would like our organization to
work towards
achieving this goal. I think it is an incredible venture.
Please forward
e-mails to me on your opinions, either for or against, or if you have more
questions in general. Shortly we will draft a letter to send to all team
captains to get a true opinion for whether or not our committee should
actively work to support such a proposal.
The value of
having a paddler based organization is beginning to
show it's worth.
I do hope individuals provide us feedback, positive and negative. A special
committee will be formed to address this issue, and as always we are always
looking for committee and volunteer members.
CCDBA
Paul Zapotochny
pzap2@hotmail.com
16/09/2001
The GWN Dragon Boat Challenge was a roaring success. For
what seemed like the first time in this events history we had friendly skies.
The water was calm with little to no cross wind. 150 plus teams participated
raising $160,000 dollars for breast cancer research. 4000 athletes, 200
support people, event staff, friends and spectators all converged on the
Ontario place grounds for two days of competition.
I believe only one team was able to make it up from the USA.
Given the events of the last few days it was encouraging to see that the
boarders were open and life goes on. The team was given a
resounding cheer when they went up for medals carrying an large USA flag at
half mast.
The only down side to the event was the occasional large boat
that was escorted down the course to gain access to lake Ontario. One boat
that returned was Booed by the athletes on shore. Given the fact
that so few boats disrupted the event I think it had to be a miracle of
organization and courtesy by both the boaters and the race organizers. The
"Boo" uncalled for and may reflect on the event and paddlers next
year.
Ramsay
Drummond-Young
04/09/2001
Stratford Ontario
Our festival in Stratford Ontario will take place this
weekend Sept.
9, 10. We actually have what I think is the largest gathering of
Breast Cancer Survivor teams anywhere. At present we have 9 teams
registered from right across Ontario and Montreal. We have enlisted
support from The Stratford Shakespearean Festival troupe to do a
tribute to this group of ladies on the water plus onstage. We are
making arrangements to broadcast it on the internet on Saturday.
I am happy to announce that this year the 6th annual The Stratford
Rotary Dragon Boat Festival will be broadcasted live on the worldwide
net this weekend. Just go to our web site at
www.rotarystratford.com
on Saturday and Sunday and watch all the action. Races run from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
The Breast Cancer Tribute Finale will take place around 5:15 p.m. on
Saturday and should prove to be pretty exciting. Spread the word to
all your friends and relatives who can't make it down this weekend.
Regards
Kevin McCann
01/08/2001
4
Annual IDBF world championships webcast 2-5/08/2001 Check it out
Philadelphia,
Hello
04/07/2001
San Francisco, CA
6th Annual Northern
California Int'l Dragon Boat Championship
Hello One and All
Would you like to participate in this event,
Normand
Is looking for twelve more paddlers. This is your chance to be a player, join
the team. Contact: Normand Beaulieu,
normandbeaulieu@juno.com
