Of course the Canadian Seniors should have won the club crews senior division ,they are the national team for cryin out loud the rest were club teams

They allowed a national team to race at a club crew event ,what did you expect

Stop hyping them over their wins ,it was expected .

DWB Reader, it should have been "you're" and not "your". Remember you're = you are. Unless you didn't make it through high school, you should have known that.

Ugh! THANK you...!!

Okay, now do "their", "there", and "they're"!!

How did Mac's team do against the flattie team two days before world's at trials.

Oh yeah - they were rocked, again.

6:00 - Don't forget the tough ones: "through", "though", and "thought".

'Sounds like one of those guys who says "EC cetera", and "nuc-u-lar"

Oh yeah - they were rocked, again.
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They lost.

I think Konrad did a pretty decent job of being even handed in his reporting. The senior national team WAS the most successful team of the CCWC. Some of theams they beat were stacked . Mac did a bit of enhancing as well but everybody raced by the rules. No , I am not with the SNP , I was on the teams they beat.
Konrad was a bit off based with his conclusion that pure DBers are competative with flaties. The SNP was humbled in Welland by Jim, especially the men.

Which teams were stacked ?

I don't know which were, but I can tell you the BCS teams definitely were not.








(sorry)

Mac's mens crew did lose all three races to the Outer Harbour Program.
However, the mixed races and women's were much closer than you may have been lead to believe.

Oh come on, guys. Who cares? They were great races with crews of very good paddlers willing to travel to paddle with these outstanding - each in his own way - coaches. (I've raced and trained with them all.)

(Remember, participation in the various kinds of race-offs and World Championships is funded 100% by the participants - not a cheap venture.)


The real paddlers in any of these senior crews raced hard, had fun doing it,came either first or second with grace, let that race go and immediately started working towards the next one.

Those folks who are still going on about whether crews were stacked, or even who beat who are not yet real paddlers. It's about attitude, not times, or number of medals, or other paddling experience.


And, it's the not-yet-real-paddlers who make such a fuss on the forum.


Happy paddling.

G&G's senoir team from what I understand had a great time, lots of fun beers, ladies, and did pretty well for never having a practice. Thats what it is all about. Good times! Thanks Gary I will remember it for the rest of my life.

"...and did pretty well for never having a practice."

I guess that was their first time ever paddling in a dragon boat too? Possibly their first time paddling ? In fact, I think that was the first time they ever got off their couches, blinked their eyes in the bright, bright sun and beheld this "lake" thing they had seen in Dorito's commercials.

I am the "Konrad did a pretty good .." poster. Saying teams were stacked was NOT meant to be negative.It was meant to reflect positively on the quality of Mac's teams and his program. I wouldn't paddle for him but he does a fine job for those that are suited to his phylosify. I would suggest that many teams at the CCWC added a few bodies.Its is within the rules , it is racing , it is a world championship. We all raced hard , the best teams won , the weather was great , the course was pretty good.
At Welland the mixed and womens races were sort of close , not a blow-out , but never in doubt.In fact one or 2 of the mixed senior races were closish between 3 crews. I think trout were the third crew. The mens races were not even close.Macs crews were good but Jim's teams have been stepping it up since before Berlin. Got to beat Shun De.

"Got to beat Shun De."

Absolutely! Once in Berlin was sweet - it's a great goal.

I am only aware of Shun De being beaten twice ever.In something like 15 years. Once in Hong Kong way back by Canada , once in Berlin by Jim. In China they were so fast we ( Canadian Seniors) got washed out right of the start.

Chinese paddler-farmers the best in the world?
Dragon boat racing has been described as the fastest growing sport in the world and certainly festivals pitting teams racing these ungainly craft against each other have become ubiquitous across Ontario. When paddlers from this province went to the World Championships in Shanghai last fall, they discovered that the fastest dragon boat team in the world may very well be a bunch of farmers from the city of Shun De, in the mainland Chinese province of Guang Dong, near Hong Kong.
The Shun De men's team is composed of farmers over 40 years of age who ply the canals around their rice paddy fields. A single paddler spends hours every day propelling a 17-to 20-foot grass boat carrying agricultural supplies to their fields and the harvest back to the market.
The parents of Richmond Hill dragon boater John Law grew up near Shun De. Law says the farmer-paddlers make about 2,000 yuan ($300 Cdn) a month tilling fields, and netted about 45,000 yuan for winning three events at the World Dragon Boat Championships in Shanghai last fall. In some instances, their times on 250, 500 and 1,000 metre courses were faster than the younger "premier" men's team from China. Why are the older paddlers faster? Law speculates that the younger paddlers aren't as fit.
"Those young guys drive" to work, Law says.
The older Shun De team further confounded the paddling experts by indulging in tobacco, even minutes before their race. While the Canadian team was warming up by jogging and stretching, the Shun De team members were sitting in the stands in a wreath of smoke. BF

I guess we all need to start recruting farmers. Any farmers on any Canadian teams ?

Is it just me, or is seeing the title of this thread at the top of the list every day really starting to get annoying?

(Then again, by contributing to it, I only continue to keep it up there. How delightfully ironic.)

Ok Konrad ,lol

Its his magazine and therefore his opinion. If you have a different opinion start your own magazine.

OK Konrad Black.

Ya and I am going to name it Dragon Boat Univers!!!

Get it the universe is bigger that the world.

Ahhh hahhhahhhh

Take that Konrad!!

Enemies are necessary for surviving?

Sad but true.

(WTF...! Do you have to be a teenager to write to this forum? I ask only because most of the responses are barely legible as is, for example, the post that's two above this one. What the hell language is that, anyway?)

(I don't know what language that is either but why are we writing everything in brackets?)

(It's because we don't want to appear rude.)


(Ok, now act naturally, they're reading.)