4 Results for month: 06/2013
A day for visitors.
Following this year's theme of unsettled weather, several visitors turned up to paddle in dull conditions.
This meant we could get two boats out on Windermere to give the visitors some basic paddling techniques and then a 'baptism of fire' with two short races.
The afternoon session was ...
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Two fantastic coaching sessions with Keni.
Good conditions at last for a wonderful coaching session with Keni.
Paddlers worked on their stroke technique in the morning and worked on race starts and transitions for a short sprint race in the afternoon.
Peter, Helen and Chris helmed.
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Eye Dotting ceremony 2013
It is traditional each year, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (usually June) for crews of paddlers to re-enact the frantic rush to save poet and courtier Qu Yuan, by powering long narrow boats with the ferocious heads of dragons mounted on the prow through the water, to the frenzied, ...
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June Paddling Session.
The wind was still with us so another interesting day of paddling for helms Aly, Helen and Tony.
They took us through some active paddling sessions which included coaching to improve the paddling stroke and some race practices over distances of around 250 metres.
June Dragon Boat Paddling ...
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