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E-Mail 1/29/2008 4:27P |
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Long
Beach All-Star Team Candidates ---
I've attached links (below) to Adobe
PDF files for some dragon boat-specific exercises. Please try
and integrate some or all of these exercises into your workouts.
Those of you who subscribed to Dragon Boat World magazine may
recognize these from the 2005 Spring and 2005 Summer issues. You
will need Adobe Reader available
here for
free in order to read these documents. Please be patient - these
are large files!
As Mike mentioned
at the meeting:
- training
goals to target are: as an individual, 450m in 2 minutes in an
OC-1 using a dragon boat paddle; as a team, 500m in 2 minutes in
a dragon boat
- as the
season progresses, you will have to commit to possibly 2-3
practices during the week IN ADDITION to weekends AND your own
team practices
- an
outside Olympic coach will be brought in around May or June
- we will
be using Maroon boat #8 for all practices whenever possible (the
only IDBF boat we have)
- at this
time we are looking to field 1 Premier mixed team. if there are
more people for another mixed team, Dr. Chen may field gender
teams for us
- if there
are enough people to field a Master's team, Dr. Chen will
support, but this team will be "on its own" for
organization/practices/coaching
- based on
the group assembled, Mike suggested we go with a slower stroke
rate (60+/minute) similar to the outrigger stroke
- we shouldn't
let egos get in the way; when practicing as a team, you are Long
Beach All-Stars, not Thunder Dragons or AeroDragons or Killer
Guppies, etc.
We will be
communicating by Evite for most practices. Make sure your spam
blocker accepts the Evite invitations. Please make
sure you RSVP to the Evites if you will be attending practice.
Last SUN, some folks showed up, but had not been informed that
practice was cancelled. We will only call those people that have
RSVP'd if there are changes to the scheduled practices due to
weather/sewage spill, etc.
An e-mail survey
will be e-mailed to you shortly regarding your preferences for
days/times that you prefer for practices. We will also be asking
for information about your paddling experience, side
preferences, home team, etc.
An Evite will also
be coming --- we will try again to practice THIS SUN at 12 Noon
at Mother's Beach . . .
Have a great week
and see you on the water!
--- M.
PS --- Please
forward me the e-mail addresses for others that you think may be
interested in joining us!
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