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 FCRCC Masters Dragonboat Team (formerly Roli masters) is currently recruiting men/women 40+ in age in good physical condition with prior competitive racing experience

 FCRCC (Roli) is a masters team ( 40 + yrs old....... NOTE: we can take 39 yr old as long you are 40 by jan/1/2008 ) that will be participating ,this August/2007, in the World Club Crew qualifiers in Calgary to qualify for the World club crew championships in Malaysia in 2008. The team had a very successful 2006 season in which they won a silver and bronze medal at the World Club Crew Championships in Toronto.

 If you're presently a commited outrigger/marathon paddler thats ok as well and you're more than welcome to join us ..... we can work with you and your schedule

 please contact : Greg Lamb at   [email protected]

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 ROLI/FCRCC -boat #2 turning it on for the win at the 2006 World Club Crew Championships - Can you see yourself as a part of it all in 2008 ?




 


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"with prior competitive racing experience" would be preferred but not essential.  You will learn from one of the top coaches on the West Coast, with personal one on one coaching. Roli will be training and racing extensively in outrigger and other small boats (OC1,K-1, kayak...) this season.  Please feel free to come out for a 'test drive' if you are one of the many wanting to improve your dragonboat and outrigger skills and still have a good time  :dance:

Cheers!
Special K

PS:  If you are 39 (and holding) you do qualify as a Masters.

FYI, currently Roli practice time slots are Sunday 9:00am (small boats) and Thursday's 7:00pm (OC6).  As the season progresses more practice's will be added.

Cheers!
Special K

 If you're worried because you have no small boat or outrigger training ........don't worry ......you will be given one on one training and it takes no time to learn and adapt .........its great crosstraining

 :P

 still looking for strong women over the age of 39 and men too ........ give it a try !!! ......There is nothing that compares as to making it this exciting world level of racing ......... its something you will always look back on and remember .You will be racing against all the top crews from around the world ........the best of the best

 Again please note : If you're a paddler w/ racing experience and time commitments or commitments to other training/racing prevents you from coming out to practice ,thats ok ,we can work with you.... just talk to us and I'm sure we can come up with something that will work and still allow you to be a part of this masters team .Even if you are from outside of the lower mainland and can make it to a couple of practices a month we would like to hear from you

 still looking ..........don't be shy

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My understanding is that Roli is now the "FCRCC Masters OC & DB Program" (http://www.fcrcc.com/Programs/details.html#masters (http://www.fcrcc.com/Programs/details.html#masters))

*gulp* swallowed them whole... :shock:

I am curious.
Is the Roli/FCRCC Masters program in any way connected/affiliated with the Men's Distance Program or the Men's Sprint program??  Does the FCRCC administration have any position on having Roli as a sponsor of a
FCRCC program???

They're all connected in that they're all FCRCC club programs but they're run completely independently as far as I know. There might be a few extremists paddling in multiple programs but usually people stick to just one (or at least one main one and maybe dabbling in another). Also note the difference between training programs and teams (which may use training programs and time trial results for their selection process). As for getting sponsors for teams, I haven't heard anyone object and I can't think why this would be a problem. Don't take this as the definitive word from the club, however, as things can be a bit murky with respect to how things are really organized as opposed to how one might think they are organized.  :)

As far as I know............the sponsor "Roli " did not come through this year and therefore the team will more than likely be renamed and I wouldn't be surprised if the team falls under the FCRCC name from here on in .FCRCC has alot of very good masters within its ranks but most of them already paddle with the sprint teams and for some time there has been talk of forming a serious masters sprint team to take a shot at qualifying for the World Championships in Russia in 2009 as well as the 2008 Club Crews in Malaysia


 This is a team that alot of paddlers over 40 should take a good look at and consider stepping up to .It's as tough and fast a division as any open division is ....just look at the times turned in the last worlds and national team trials . If you have ever wanted to race at the world level maybe this team is for you .....

 

Only Canadians, no?

 Not sure on that one..........but I would think you would have to live in Canada or have dual citizenship

How hard is it to immigrate?

 not hard apparantly ( people have been doing it for yrs ) ......all you have to do is hide in a container (w/ your paddle) and when they unload it off the freighter onto the dock make a run for it  :shock:

Perhaps you can claim refugee status.

Or list your occupation as "exotic dancer" on the immigration form.

Seriously, does one have a to be Canadian to race on this master's crew?  This team is not representing Canada but instead a club.  Who knows the real scoop on this issue?  Tiger, Guido???

you have to be canadian ....... and be on the roster and compete with the team .Its the club crew they are going for so you would have to be from BC .Now if this was for Russia in 2009 then it could be Canada wide

Wouldn't you need to be a member of, and practice with, the CLUB to be on a CLUB Crew? Isn't that hard to do if you don't live in the same country, province, city? Are the Clubs this needy? Seems kind of a ridiculous category to race under if the rules are that lax.

Greg Lamb would have all the definitive answers.  If you really need to know try contacting him through Water's Edge.

apparently not ..........in the last club crew teams used paddlers from around BC ......... some Vancouver teams allowed paddlers from Victoria to race with them as long as they did make some practices and did time trials but they kept it to BC

ALSO at the last club crews....   there was a "Jamaican" team made up of GTA paddlers.  :lol:

yeah it was a bit of a joke........the Toronto team failed to qualify to go to the club crews so they then decided to enter based on their ancestral background which was Jamaican born Chinese claiming they were going to bring dragonboating to this country.........hopefully they closed that loophole but something gives me the feeling they haven't

 apparently not ..........in the last club crew teams used paddlers from around BC ......... some Vancouver teams allowed paddlers from Victoria to race with them as long as they did make some practices and did time trials but they kept it to BC
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"Some practices", Vancouver to Victoria is one heck of a commute for an hour or two practice. Wonder how the local club members who made "most" of the practices felt about loosing their seats?

Seems like it's a mockery of a CLUB CREW ideal. Shame really,  it seemed like a good, new championship that appears to be going down the tubes rather quickly with these kinds of loop-holes and lack of control.

 The team members knew before what the plan was and that was to put forward the best crew they could within the rules and they did just that ........Everyone had their fair chance

 And yes the rules need to be tightened up for the future but its a tough thing to try to control . How can you stop someone that lives a little ways away and wants to make the effort to attend and do the time trials from being part of the crew ?? ...They worked just as hard as everyone else and brought what was needed to grab a seat .

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