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[skygal]

Just some updated news.  Our paddler is resting comfortably in the hospital and shes on morphine. The doctors are monitoring her and will release her when she feels better

We are all praying for a speedy recovery

Haha.although it does hurt like a b$tch, I'm not on morphine or any pain killer right.They are discharging me today so I can fly home and get my surgery.

I guess my paddling season is over for me now...either that or I'll have to paddle on my off side.

Thanks for your well wishes.

[puppy]

Hey Skygal

We are all pleased to hear that you are safe. We will see you in Vancouver and pray that your surgery is a success. 

THANK YOU for keeping your team inspired to race for you on the last race.

Puppy

[puppy]

Just an update, we have found one more trophy in one of the paddlers room.  He was sleeping with it yesterday night. We are not sure what he did with the trophy while in bed, but we are having it disinfected and sterilized

Final Tally

12 TROPHIES

4 PLATES

About 60 people are leaving today. Some sad faces, tears, smiles and happiness. Another girl has hurt herself yesterday. She was dancing in the street and stepped on broken glass. She cut herself and needed some medical attention. $450hk dollars later and she's still smiling

More fun stories to come from everyone.

[Illuminate]

Crazy, take care to the injured people

Hope you guys had a great time, and grats on doing well

[puppy]

FYI,the chinese team are givenn mandates to win at all cost

if they win, first the team receives 3 Million HK dollars.  Another team would receive $500,000 HK money.

In addition,if the chinese women win by a margin of 1 minute +, each paddler gets $100 HK dollars each

Next year, we will give each team 5 Million HK dollars if we win...not sure where the money will come from, but we will talk to Ann Phelps

[2010]

You are the epitome of 'doing whatever it takes' Skygal. Now get you and your walker home!

[alcanranker]

For a complete viewing of results go to http://202.181.134.86:8080/dbrss/race_search.jsp

[Illuminate]

Oh wow, Jiu Jiang's Open team got beaten by Thailand, no $3 million HK for them I guess

Thailand really cleaned up actually, Open, Mixed, Small boat Mixed & Open, just their women got 2nd against Jiu Jiang

[mandachan]

Oh wow, Jiu Jiang's Open team got beaten by Thailand, no $3 million HK for them I guess

That's right boys... smoking is bad for you.

Thailand really cleaned up actually, Open, Mixed, Small boat Mixed & Open, just their women got 2nd against Jiu Jiang

They all look like my aunties and grandmas, they eat dimsum out of tupperware between races, sleep supine on bamboo mats until their next heat, drink tea out of water bottles, get up and Chuck Norris the races all the way to Gold Cup finals.

Mad respect. Maaaaaad respect!!!

[Fat Tiger]

My HK friends they said they saw our teams on the local tv TVB. I tried to search for the video online and find the 2000m GOLD race. If you guys find more video, let us know =)

2011年6月18日香港國際龍舟邀請賽2000米繞圈賽

[rdignan]

Hey friends

 I still have a bit of jet legged and my blisters are popping yikes but they are bandaged up and healing slowly. i will miss my Royal Australian Navy buddies and the Thailand team  that I met. I got a nice jersey from Thailand too . If I had more time I would of loved to see more of the nightlife and hangout more at the Ladies Market. It was a really exciting for me because I got to do a sport I enjoy so much and race at a international level . It was scary when I heard that there was now rec. races but it all turned out to be a fun and tough competition that made you push yourselves to the limits.
It was the best experience ever and would love to do it  again. See you on the water

[Cait]

Besides blisters and jet lag Which are miserable all by themselves-- is anyone else sick?
Came home with nasty sinus infection (planes? A/c?) and the dreaded HK 2-step. Think that was from the celebration dinner. 

[Dr. Evil]

Had an awesome time in HK! Many thanks to Kerry for making this all happen.

I was blown away by the level of production and exposure this festival has. From the budget ($15 million HKD), to the media coverage to the level of competition....all added up to us paddling in a different league than here in North America. One thing that doesn't change is the camraderie & respect between paddlers that transcends language & geography. Of course, freeflowing San Miguel beer at the paddler's party helps that cause as well! 

Really proud of all the Canadian teams. Way to represent! Especially proud of my teammates on Creakside Masters & the Premier Open.  The Masters placed a respectable 4th in the top final for the Mixed (standard boat). No shame in losing to Thailand, Macau & the HK Island Paddling Club. Masters also earned a Silver in the Mixed Small Boat, losing to Thailand. Funny story there...Thailand beat us racing only 8 in the small boat (we raced 10), probably used their spares too! Much respect to the Thai Team. They rocked it.

Premier Open....for a group that did not have much time together, we really started to gel and come together as the weekend wore on. Highlight for sure was the Gold in the 2000m race. Although it should be renamed the '3200m race' as that is what the real distance was when they told us after the fact! 

Physically demanding racing so many races, many of them back to back to back (I raced 19 times that weekend) with the heat & humidity, plus the more challenging water conditions. On many an occasion, we had to get off the boat & jump into another one at the docks.  We had to work it out  between the race officials & team managers to get us checked off on the roster as we did not have time to re-marshall.

All in all, a great experience. Thanks to all the teams, team managers, sponsors & especially you Kerry, for making this all possible.

[What_the?]

It was an amazing experience being out in Hong Kong that I wish more people would be able to experience.  The diversity and the depth of competition was an eye-opener.  There are obvious technical differences between north american and asian teams, but also just the differences in the culture of dragonboating.  Here you'll see lots of warmup and stretching, but the asian teams don't really do much of that at all?

What I found interesting was the size of alot of the paddlers there.  Walking around hong kong, I expected small asian guys, but these guys were huge.  Everyone looked like they were on steroids.  Huge and ripped upper bodies for lots of the comp teams.  But I guess that physique is necessary to pull off their technique.

Anyways, overall i'm glad I didn't flip, and had a wonderful experience.  Thank you to everyone for making it happen and of course to Kerry for all your hard work! 

[rkranas]

i envy you guys how i wish i had a chance to join and experience hk db.