No, wed is my paddling off days.

It sounds like a bit much, but i remember times last year where there was a lot of time in between races, enough for frisbees, frolicking in the water, and general horsing around :thumbsup:

:haha::haha:

You not going to Harrison w/ other teams?

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I'm pretty sure you can. Ask the FCRCC Outrigger program people.

I do believe its available as well.

haha, yeah i saw michelle's posting on dbwest, some of the responses were hilarious

RGL going to Last Gasp/ Kelowna?

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What's Dragon Hearts Breaker btw?

DH Breaker's a new rec team from Dragon Hearts, our blanket organization. :)

And yes, those two weeks are going to be real frantic, but some of us are taking that as an excuse to skip Last Gasp. (I'd love to go.)

Wow, I still remember Beat having trouble getting ppl on the boat at the beginning of the season. Where you'd get these ppl from lol

Absolutely no idea. I'm assuming Denis did some background mafia work.

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Ah, that's Andrew Sugi, he hulis pretty much every single time he goes out. Those K1 can't be recovered midwater. :P

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Mandatory OC sessions because she needs work on her technique (1st year paddler), and OC1 is best for practicing technique.

I dont know abt JetStart, but Masters might not go since they are lacking paddlers, so we'll represent alright! :thumbsup:

We had some roster issues ourselves since the SF race is expensive and not everyone can afford the CAD$ 800-1000 for the trip

Beginning of the season are always like that as that's typical of the Beat. They almost always do pick up tons of paddlers midway through the season.
Sometimes so much so that it warrants a whole new team. Making the Beat our mid - high rec team...think SI Black, Blue, Liquid Silver or FCRCC A, B, C, etc haha

I believe the current Dragon Hearts family consists of:
1) Magnum
2) Beat
3) Breakers
4) Goju-Go
5) WW

One BIG happy family :haha:

So you were there? I was the guy that came down to talk to Denis while our steer were swimming back to dock.

Hugging the boat makes for less effort in swimming back to the dock. If he didn't huli close to the dock, the typical proc is to swim to the rocks (if you have socks to prevent barnacles from cutting up ur feet) and drain the K1 and get back on it from the rocks.

Our steer and Denis are actually pretty decent on the K1, they only normally huli when sitting on the more advanced K1 (Tiger, Triton, Lancer)
I myself huli'ed 6 times the first time I took out the Laser :haha: and didnt have my socks on, so on several occasions I found myself swimming from the the 150-200m mark back to dock...that's 5+ mins of swimming :haha::haha:

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Oh yeah, I heard Masters is going to Shanghai for an expo thing. I know Jeff Chen from FCRCC is going to Shanghai

Haha, I'm having my parents fund Magnum only because they're actually capable of winning races and they're my team. :D I'm sure we'll have a couple of spare seats for you if you're serious about heading down to SF, since we're losing some paddlers after Harrison. ;)

Also, Sunday's the day I've penciled down as my official return to paddling on an OC. Yay!

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Are you trying to bait me or something? If you've learned anything from the stories, you'd know that if I went, I'd be single by the end of the night.... in the bad way. :(

Besides, I'm working. ;)

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Hm.... no promises. Don't drink and drive, and you'll be sure that I won't get you for it. ;)

Well we're still looking for some serious, comp paddlers to go to San Fran with us cause we're looking to TAKE IT ALL! :D:D But we don't have a full roster yet but it'll work out if you go to Magnum practices cause we practice on the days RGL has off... It just means you probably won't get to go on OC a lot, but you'll be dbing 5-6 times a week haha :thumbsup:

What? wait...now, I'm not sure who you are talking abt lol
Which one are you talking abt? and who is the sister?

Yeah, I didnt notice you either coz I started my convo w/ Denis the moment I came down. besides, two shirtless guys was one too many :haha:

I believe it was 4 from masters and 2 from FCRCC, Im not sure abt the rest of the 10 man crew.

that sounds so bad, you better hope there's no Beat paddlers here hahaha

Less OC = Magnum DB prac = Max Rapage @ SF :thumbsup:
I believe we're also getting some SI Black Paddlers come on board. We'll know by this weekend.

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Oh hahah, nah..not picking, more like wanting them to improve to better themselves..besides, our coach is hard on them like every one of us who had something to improve on once, once you get better, he gets off your case abt it :D

That's pretty funny though, how come they got separated? what's the story on the supposed 'rejection'?

Yea SIB is still going to Montreal, but all that hoopla is ending by August, one whole month b4 SF, So I'm guessing those SIB paddlers are itching for more competition.

:haha: at least it'll be equal proportion of big dudes all around...Asian, White and Brown...I'm starting to sound awfully close to Russell Peter's latest stand up special :haha:

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