Gung Haggis dragon boat team practiced hard on the last Sunday before the Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival

Here is video from out last Sunday's practice.
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Everybody who came out is paddling hard. 

Our final practice before Festival is this Tuesday - tomorrow.

The June 19/20 Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival is the largest dragon boat festival in North America.

Last Tuesday we had a great race winning against GVRD 44 Cheeks - who usually beats us, and the previous Sunday, we placed in A Division for the first time at Dragon Zone regatta, and on May 1st, we placed in the top division at Lotus Regatta... which leads me to think this could be our best Gung Haggis dragon boat team ever.

We've worked hard to develop this year's team.  We have amazing rookies.  We have wonderful veterans.  We are looking to improve on last year's results.  We have been working hard to prepare the team for technique, endurance, strength and working together. These are all things paddlers said they wanted to improve on.

We are also applied to enter extra races in Dragon Zone race, and age category race, so our paddlers get more races and opportunities to have extra medals.