Top 22 Holiday Gifts for Dragon Boaters
A Few of My Favorite Things If your family exchanges gifts for the holidays, your loved ones may be struggling with finding great paddling-oriented gifts. With the help of some paddling
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Are You Faking It? How Over-Reaching Can Be Detrimental to Your Stroke
Are you faking it on the dragon boat? Does your reach look amazing in terms of distance, but ends up being ineffective? Recently, I noticed some of the paddlers on my
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10 Reasons I’m Thankful for Dragon Boating
As it is Thanksgiving in the United States, I can’t help but think about all the reasons I’m thankful for dragon boating. Like most people, when I first picked up
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4 Reasons You Should Get On An Outrigger Canoe: How Outrigger Paddling Will Help Your Dragon Boat Skills
A new dragon boat paddler doesn’t get many weeks in a boat until they’re asked, “But, have you ever tried outrigger?” An astute new paddler will note that dragon boating
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Top 25 End-of-Year Award Ideas for Dragon Boat Paddlers: Ways to Honor Your Teammates
We’ve trained all season, we’ve worked hard, we’ve won (and sometimes lost) medals. Everyone sees the work that happens on the water or in the gym. We get rewarded for
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Just Breathe: Regulating Your Breathing While Paddling
Whether you are a “mouth breather,” a “heavy breather,” or a “silent breather,” the truth of the matter is: EVERYONE HAS TO BREATHE! But the question often is, “When do I
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Top Ten Paddlers You DON’T Want on Your Team: Are You One of Them?
We’ve all got teammates who aren’t even close to being on our list of “cool people we want to hang out with.” Some drive us crazy, some we can’t stand,
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Competitive vs. All-Inclusive: Which Approach is Best for a Smaller Team?
If your team has recently become competitive, you are likely still working to grow and expand. On a relatively small team the pool of paddlers is not very deep and therefore can
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