Dragon Boat West

For those that are interested, CCWC race grid is out:

http://www.2006ccwc.com/schedule.html

Looks like its gonna be some great racing! What I wouldn't give to be a part of that experience!

Best of luck to all the teams....but especially to all the Canadian & US Crews up and down the West Coast that'll be there....make us proud!!! :clap:

looking forward to some great racing and HOT weather.  8)

 Its crazy hot there like 46 yesterday ...................I'm going to melt .Should have trained w/ a parka on ....damn

what team are you on paddle boy?

i think the better question would be "which teams haven't you paddled with yet?"

thats a good idea.  we should all wear full-on winter clothing tomorrow night, toques and all.

 right now ........2 really really good ones ,lol  8)

 Ok...I'm bringing the parka and wooly mits and toque, & ski pants to the remaining practices

Yeah, me too!  Maybe one year I'll be good 'enuf (fit, fast, light, strong, skillled ... take your pick of one or more of the preceeding not-yet/un-obtaniums) to make the cut.

Oh, yeah ... and rich (or at least "non poor"), too ...

Yeah, right!   :lol:

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What a tightly-packed - and confusing! - race sched!  Do they really plan to run 5-minute race intervals?  Spectating willl be like watching the Molson Indy (which Hogtown still has, but not us!) ... no time to go fer a brown pop ... or even a p*ss ... might miss something!! 

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Let's not forget the National Team Trials at Welland, Aug 8th & 9th, the week before the CCWCs.  Some (or all?) of the FCRCC teams are also entered in the NTTs (don't know if anyone else from here is entered, tho').

In some ways, I suspect this is as (if not more) important to many crews than the CCWC ... 'cuz the NTT is a big part of the crew selection process for the Offiical Team Canuck entry to the IDBF DB Worlds (which alternate year-by-year with the CCWC) next year down in Oz.  I'm not sure of exactly how much the NTT figures in the process - but the FCRCC guys I know are all really stoked about it.

Only thing I can find on the NTT is at http://www.dragonboatcanada.org/ntt.html - and that's just the blank entry forms, and the info bulletin put out mid-May.  Can't seem to find any other info about the races, the venue, etc., on the DBC site. And "Welland National Watersport Center" (& variations thereof) doesn't give anything useful on Google, etc., nor did I find an address of the WNWC for use on Google Maps, Mapquest, etc.

(may I grumble & grouch fer 'af-a-mo' ... beats me why someone - in this case DB Canada -  bothers to put up a web site, then doesn't keep it up to date!!  :shock:
And on that sh** list too - hello, FCRCC web site??   :P  Sigh ...)

So good luck - especially to all our local folks: FCRCC, Pac Reach, Roli, Laoyam & St'Keya.

Let 'em eat yer spray, boys & girls!!  The Left Coast RULES ...

Dan

i'm a poor student, and i'm going.  and if i can go, so can you.  just gotta be willing to bust your ass and work hard. 


its going to be hard taking photos. :(

agreed.  not much info out there about it at all.  i tried google-ing the location as well, and found nothing.    and i agree about fcrcc's site too.  aside from the most recent update about the OC1 shed at burrard, i dont' think its been updated in any significant manner since last year sometime.  maybe whoever was running the site left?

 Dan

 NTT : We are up on tuesday

 PREMIER

 9am .. 1000 meter .. men

 11 am ....200 meter .....men

 1pm ......200 meter.... mixed

 3 pm.....500 meter ...men

 5 pm .....500 meter.... mixed

 Weds ...Roli hits the water at the NTT in the senior division

 hopes this helps and thx for the support people !!
 

 
 

the women race in there too.  ;)

Wasn't really the money (I have LOTS of Aeroplan & AirMiles points!).

I didn't make the cut, plain & simple - wasn't quite good enough a water-stabber (in GM time trials), that's all.  Being on the tag end of a month-plus cruddy flu didn't help ... but I gotta train better & smarter, next year!

(tho' yes, I'd certainly still prefer to be un-poor ...  :wink:)


And I know the FCRCC GrandMasters are racing on Tues or Weds (a couple of my teamies are on the GMs) in the NTT, for a chance to be the Canuck GM team for Oz 2007.  They are not staying over as a team (tho' some members are, on the Roli Seniors) for the CCWC, however.

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YOW!!  1 day, 5 races (one a 1K), 2 hours between, 5 warm-ups ... hmmm ... and just how hot did someone say it was going to be back there next week?  46 ºC ???

So where does KJ say you should plug in the IV water tube??

DBC still should post the full grid on their web site!  How else are we to know whom (of the OTHER teams) to lay a hex on, at the annointed hours?  Race site photos, maps (the WNWC is a "national" place, after all - it says so right in the name), maybe a street address would be nice.  Yet Bulletin 2 is still "coming soon", when the dance is less than a week away?  Faugh!

Hate to admit it, but the CCWC web site actualy was useful, in that sense anyway. (Ouch!!  That was painful, saying something nice-ish - even if back-handed - about Hogtown ...)

Bring back pix (as well as medals & Tall Tales), you guys!!  DBW seems to have LOTS of space!

LUCK!  :Cheers:

D

i guess i have zero clue who you are in person.  lol  having the flu sucks, just like being perpetually "injured".  :?

mmmm wads of cash would be nice.......
i raced 5 races on the last day of alcan....     and lost 7lbs over the weekend.  maybe it'll help for the CCs :lol:  but yeah, not looking forward to the blistering heat.

at the very least, there will be some stories.   itching for some hardware too, of course ;)

Thanks!

The False Creek Masters team (over 50) are racing in the NTT on Tuesday at 12:40 in the 200 Meter and at 4:40 in the 500 meters. Just as a note of interest. The Over 50 category is the most hotly contested group. Six teams, 3 Eastern two Western (FCRCC and St'kye from Victoria) all shooting for one spot in Oz in 2007. 8 members from the Roli Seniors, and the rest from a collection of old geezers from the Creek. Coaches are Pat Barker and Kate Zubick. We get one shot at qualifying. No heats, just one shot. The False Creek teams are:
NTT
FCRCC Grand Masters (Over 50) mixed
FCRCC Men and Mixed in Premier
Roli Canada Masters (over 40) mixed
WCC
FCRCC Men/Mixed/Women in Premier
Roli Canada Masters Mixed
Pacific Reach Masters Mixed
Everyone in the FCRCC should be very proud of these paddlers. Not ony have the paddlers worked very hard, but have ponied up some hard cash to get to these competitions. Good Luck to all teams. Make the snot fly!i

Found this on an Eastern dragon boat forum....

In the 1000 open ,Toronto just edged out FCRCC by less that 1/2 a second I believe .Time was around mid 3.40's .In the 500 again TO just edged out FCRCC at the finish w/ a mid 1.40 something .The 200 it appeared FCRCC spun their wheels on the start and TO edged them out by 4 seats maybe,To had a 40 and FCRCC was a 42

Awesome races to watch .Fcrcc gave them 1 heck of a race and earned some respect I think .They were so close coming down the course and at times it was back and forth .Congrats to both teams for jobs well done

The Premier mixed was the same w/ TO just barely pulling it off on FCRCC at the finish and both races it was hard to tell who won .

The national womens team rocked,they were very strong and solid

Some very fast times today ,seniors up tomorrow

from what i recall (should have taken note of the results, or photographed the papers or something) of the premier men's...
1000m: TO - 3:43, FCRCC - 3:44 (fraction of a second difference)
200m:   TO - 0:41, FCRCC - 0:42 (i think just about a full second.  3-4 seats behind TO)
500m:   TO - 1:42, FCRCC - 1:43 (i can't remember the exact #s)

Premier Mixed:
almost identical times for both the 200m and 500m, with a smaller time gap in the 200m.  some exciting and VERY close races. 

looking forward to the CCs which start tomorrow morning.   msn(u)

Just got a text message that I would like to share with everyone...

"FCRCC mixed came first overall in 200m mixed"

Pacific Reach also took Bronze today in Senior Mixed 200 meters.

to add on that, fcrcc women came in 2nd behind montreal, and fcrcc men came first.   :D

ah, what would a dragonboat festival be without a little controversy?  the rules for turning and how to take turns in the 2000m are kind of vague as they are written, and to confuse things even more, the race officials held a pre-race meeting for the steers/drummers giving them rules that weren't really following the written rules to the "T", but these rules were repeated and stressed upon the attendees repeatedly as being the way the race was to be run. 

the result?  fcrcc mens' dragon head caught macau mens' dragon tail as macau cut them off for a better line half-way through the final turn.  that bump dislodged the dragon head from fcrcc's boat, as well as disqualifying them.  *sigh*   ain't life fun? :)

 FCRCC pretty much has cleaned up at the club crews so far in mens & mixed . Roli today was second bringing home silver in the 500 beating out Eat Trout who took third and Pacific Reach was 4th .Roli went a 1.59 to PR's 2.01 .Layoam swept the jr's pretty much dominating every event . In the 2000 Roli was 3rd and Reach was 6 th .FCRCC went 1st in their heat but was protested after a collision w/ China so not sure where it sits at this point as they were disqualified but were protesting the decision

 This has been a awesome showing for the west and for Canada .Both my teams rocked and we are bringing home lots of cups and hardware !

kudos to Laoyam,

and of course to Pac Reach, and all the other western teams.

w/e happened to Kai?

Great work to all the teams from Canada! It's evident that the Western teams are narrowing the gap between the Eastern teams but it's still a work in progress.

Hey Paddleboy, no offense to Pacific Reach b/c they are a great team, but were they really your main competition? I heard that there were bigger "fish" in the water out there like "Eat Trout" and the Canadian Senior DB team!??

IMHO, focusing on the bigger fish will take you further...and there are some really big ones out in the East!

Yes your right .The senior division had some very tough competitors such as the Cdn Senior d/b club ( pretty much the national senior team that went to Berlin worlds and ranked #1 & 2 in distance ) and Eat Trout ( set the fastest 500 time at the North American Clubs Crews last yr) so we had our work cut out for us .
 
 In the 200 meter it was The Cdn Snr's first and then Eat Trout and then the third was hard to tell who won between Roli and Pac Reach but after photo review it was determined Pac Reach .

 In the 500 it was Cdn Senior and then Roli followed by Eat Trout and then Pac Reach . That had to of been Roli's best race ever as we were determined to win this one and we just unloaded on the start and got out in front and  just stayed on the power and in the end we ended up w/ silver(second ) in the 500 beating Eat Trout by at least 1/2 a boat .The boat just flew....... it was an awesome race

 Congrats to all the Western teams from BC ...we all rocked and showed that the west truely has what it takes to win at the world level

 Not sure where Kai ended up but they weren't in the premier finals from what I remember ( could be wrong)...too bad as I know they had their hearts set on it.The competition at the worlds this time around is extremely tough.Probably the toughest ever as N. America brought alot of very tough teams to this event and teams that dominated last time at Cape Town were easily taken out this time around .

 

Results are finally being posted on the CCWC page.  I've copied and pasted the results for the Grand Finals only and posted them here (http://www.swordfishdragonboat.ca/ccwc.htm).  Since the site doesn't say which races are the finals, I've had to cross reference with the Event Schedule.  If there's any mistakes, please let me know.

Good work to all the teams from the West Coast!

  Another blunder for Roli

 Turns out in the 2000 meter Roli was 3rd and their medals were given to the aussies and they were not able to get them back so they issued Roli w/ generic bronzes last night

 

Nice work.  Thanks for doing this, Swordfish!

Here are all the results from the CCWC site... http://www.2006ccwc.com/results.html

Anyway, i have to say that FC is quite impressive. Congrats to all the west coast teams. I'm glad a Canadian team won instead of anyone else. It was definitely a great weekend!

I still can't believe the stroke rate of the Macau and Chinese teams!

 Thx sun .Speaking for myself ... FCRCC is a awesome team (mens,mixed,women) to be a part of and we are a very close bunch and train very hard to get to where we are . We are very supportive of each other and it shows in their performance as a team .... hopefully the team will continue to thrive and continue w/ success .

 Yeah Teams !!

 Also I got the chance to be a part of FCRCC-Roli  ... a very cool relaxed team ( except for me,lol) .They worked their butts off before going into the club crews making changes and learning from mistakes and doing the NTT was the best decision as we learned alot before they headed to the CCWC and as you can see the slight changes paid off .

The officials just updated the results on official CCWC website.  For those that did not believe paddleboy and others, it is official Roli was 3rd in the 2000m.  Fair and square  :D.

Roli worked hard and did what was required when required, they deserve every medal they got.  FCRCC was awesome, too bad they played bumper cars with Macau in the 2000m since they may have walked away with another gold.  Overall a very well run event, everyone should be proud (every BC based team came home with some hardware, YAY).

Back to analyzing the Victoria race grid  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: