Coaching
Friends of Paddlers for Life
There are many people and groups in the locality and across the country and wider world who have given our team generous support.
One such group is the Three River Serpents, the ‘Serpees’, who are a UK league dragon boat team based in Durham.
This is one of their dragon boats on loan at the Paddlers for Life inaugural seminar in 2008. They brought it over on a trailer to show at the event as Paddlers for Life had not yet taken delivery of their new boats.
They took two of their dragon boats to Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway so that a local group could have a taster day for dragon boat paddling.
They have paddled in the boat with us and in their own boat alongside us at Solstice Paddle events paddling the length of Windermere.
We have visited Durham Rowing Club to paddle with them prior to our paddling season.
Keni has coached us every year that we have been paddling.
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Down and ready. The power start to a race. 2010
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Looks like there is some work to do on timing for the team of paddlers. 2010
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No excuses for not seeing what you need to do. 2011
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No excuses for not seeing what you need to do. 2011
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A good vantage point to see the technique of both paddling teams. 2011
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Friendly rivalry! 2011
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Coaching sessions are not always about hard work! 2011
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Timing is important with everyone ‘in sync’. 2012
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Coaching sessions were an important preparation for the IBCPC international festival in Peterborough, Canada. 2012
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Final thoughts to improve the ‘race start’. 2013
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Coaching sessions always include opportunities to race. 2013
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The forward and backward movement adds length to the paddling stroke. 2013
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Our beautiful paddling location. 2013
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The coach is able to seek out every little bit of power in the stroke. 2015
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Awaiting the second crew. We need two teams to race. 2013
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Coaching sessions are always popular with paddlers even though we know hard work awaits us. 2013
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Timing of the stroke is improving. 2013
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Coaching with Keni 2013 13
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What’s not to enjoy when paddling and learning in these beautiful surroundings. 2013
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Keni has much paddling experience and has the knack of refining everyones’ skills. 2015
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The coach is able to explain and demonstrate things clearly. 2015
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Our coach Keni brought along the new arrival to her family who was presented with her own dragon boat paddle. 2015
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Listen to the detail, there are lots of refinements to the paddling technique. 2013
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The new paddle, signed by paddlers, was well received. 2015
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Paddlers have to deliver for the coach sometimes in quite challenging conditions.. 2016
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Sometimes everything comes together and sometimes it doesn’t. 2016
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Look how attentive the paddlers are to these words of paddling wisdom. 2016
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A quick refresher of basic paddling technique before paddlers set off. 2017
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Look at the smiles as Keni takes paddlers through the paddling techniques to build skills. 2017
Now they are doing a Tahitian challenge to raise additional funds for their OC6 outrigger canoe. The challenge is to cover the distance the canoe traveled from Tahiti to Durham, 17,726.32 km by human powered means. Some Paddlers for Life Windermere paddlers are helping with the challenge and many members have donated.
You can see a video promoting their challenge here.
Update: The Serpees completed their tahitian Challenge and clocked up the distance total and also raised a little over their £5000 target for the purchase of their OC6 outrigeer canoe.
If you haven’t donated please consider doing so by going here.
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