Author Topic: The future of Dragonboat in Singapore (Read 8602 times)

Nautilus · « **on:** March 17, 2007, 18:35 »

The Tertiary Men champ is the NUS team. Also, NUS swept all the titles for canoeing and kayaking events. That is as much as I have been paying attention to. Anyone else with anymore updates?

RPaddler · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2007, 20:04 »

woah. they are good. wonder what's next?

Cartman · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2007, 20:57 »

Hmm ... looks like NUS is unstoppable.

Nautilus · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2007, 00:55 »

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I'm watching a replay of RP paddle now. they seem to be doing EVERYTHING that i hav been taught is wrong... no follow through, no forward catch, no twisting.. maybe that's what i've been making my team do wrong all this while. perhaps singaporeans should re asses they way we paddle.. the fact that RP was isolated from the rest of the world gave them a clean slate to work with. and steve got it right.

I couldn't agree more. They are the only team that do not reach forward by bending down their torso, and yet with seemingly little upper body motion, they are 1 second from NUS tradition long strokes, and beat NTU's traditional, short, fast spectacularly uniform strokes, albeit by a 0.03sec.

Perhaps its about spending more time on the water, and paddling longer distances.

Then again they have home ground advantage, this being Lower Seletar Reservoir.

dboater · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2007, 01:12 »

You can check your results for Saturday race here.

http://www.sava.com.sg/results%20for%2017mar07.pdf

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but their canoeing team literally masacared the entire field with 10 boat leads and an amazing first place finish in all their heats.. This is the first time i have seen them race (in canoes and kayaks) and it is really quite amazing that a local team can be that much faster than everyone else.

Then again NUS canoe team sweeping all the canoe kayak titles not surprising considering they are coach by the national team coach and they train every single day.

Cartman · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2007, 18:12 »

NTU Canoe retains title! You guys should have seen their last burst of fury. It's fast and furious!!!

hoosies · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2007, 18:29 »

for sat and sun.. i believe, its everyone's game. every race, the opens, tertiary or inter corporate... every race was a great race. congrats to everyone for participating! enjoyed every race that i went to. wish u all good luck for master series next week! but NUS canoe.. totally rocked...

RPaddler · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2007, 18:44 »

Yup.. Everyone did a great job! Thumbs up! :lol:

KahiroSamo · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2007, 18:47 »

it was great experience! although it seems like an NUS race than anything else.

Qn: Why are there so much water weeds in the reservoir? :?:

Nautilus · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2007, 18:51 »

haha everyone seems to be asking the same question about the water weeds. Perhaps the water is nutritious?

Personally I feel this race was a good platform for athletes to come and check out each others strength and weaknesses, learn from the experience and grow stronger. Also, the fact that NUS was tops in almost all of the events showed that all the teams in Singapore has to benchmark their own performance against NUS. Which is a good thing, because if you do not have a benchmark, then there is no way to train realistically.