InspirASIAN Dragons - First Practice This Saturday 6/2/18 10am

Hello Team,

Our first practice is this Saturday.

Let's meet at the mother's beach meet up at 10am.

If you are beginner paddler then please come a little early to make sure we go over the basics at 10am.

Thank you and see you out on the beach.

Items to bring for practice:

Required- Signed ICEA & SCDBC Waiver form (I will bring some extra at practice). This is required before you get on the boat.  This can be downloaded from Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival website at http://www.lbdragonboat.com/downloads/SCDBCWaiver2018.pdf

Festival Participant Waiver Form.

 

Recommended- sunscreen (sun protection), sunglasses (eye protection), hat (additional sun protection), water (it's a workout), towel (to dry yourself since you'll get wet), quarters (if parking at meter lot)

 

Optional- folding chair (if you want comfortable place to sit), change of clothes (if you want to get out of wet clothes), sandals/aqua shoes (some folks like it barefoot, other sandals, I like the aqua socks), snacks (especially if you didn't have time for breakfast), water gloves (it's nice to have them to grab on to the paddle)

 

Where to meet:

Our first practice for the Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival race will be on Saturday 6/2/2018 Time: 10:00am at the Mother Beach/Marine Park, Long Beach. When using your GPS, type-in 5739 Appian Way, Long Beach, CA 90803, which is about, where the entrance to the meter parking is. This is metered parking lot and the parking fee is enforced starting at 8:00am. (15 min = 25 cents) There is also free parking area which is linked below on Google map along with our meet location at the park. This is roughly our meet spot at the park on page 1. Free parking area (Boy Scout Parking) is shown on page 2: click here.

 

More Info:

Paddlers must be able to attend at least 4 practice sessions beginning June 2 through July 21, 2018 (Saturdays) and MUST attend both full days of the festival on Saturday July 28 and Sunday July 29, 2018. Paddlers will be asked to sign a waiver. A practice time varies. Normal start time is between 10:00am to 10:30am and end time is between 12:40pm to 1:40pm. Festival times are between 7:00am to 5:00pm.

 

For new paddlers, it is very important for you to attend first 2 practices since we'll be going over the basics.

 

After certain practices, we’ll have boot camp type of workout session to be announce later.

 

Practices, boot camp, and workout home work will all be counted toward “point” to win the participation award to be awarded at the race.

 

I recommend that new paddler come on time so that we can go over the dragon boat basics. You can also follow us on Facebook APCA Dragons and/or twitter @APCA_Dragons and/or blog at http://apcadragons.blogspot.com/