SINGAPORE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 2012: Bronze! National Championship Mixed – Open Category
Bronze!!! 3rd place in the Open National Championship Mixed 22crew. Great job Austcham Paddle Club!
Singapore Dragon Boat Festival 2012: GOLD! International business houses race (Aka. the expat race)
Well done Austcham Paddle Club – day 1, 1 GOLD! The only team to have 2 boats in the grand final – bringing home GOLD for the A Boat and 5th / 7th for the B Boat. Let’s do it all again tomorrow…
Singapore Dragonboat Festival – 30th June / 1st July – Bedok 800 metre race
Austcham Paddle Club have trained solidly for 8 weeks in the lead up to the 800 metre race at Bedok, 2012. The team are quite fit and paddling well together considering the DBS Regatta was only a few weeks ago in May. Over the last 8 weeks there’s been beefcake, milkshake, time trials, Hellweek and of […]
Correct hydration in hot temperatures – ie. Singapore
Last weekend was the HOTTEST weekend in Singapore that I can remember having in a loooooong time. And, as chances would have it, it was the weekend that I completed four paddling training sessions in the boiling hot sun. It is truly no exaggeration when I tell you this – one of my dragon boating […]
Singapore Dragon Boat Festival – 2011
On the 9th & 10th of July 2011, Dragon Boaters from across Singapore and Hong Kong took part in the Singapore Dragon Boat Festival at Bedok Reservoir. All races were 800 meters. The Aussie’s hard work and effort with training both in and out of the water in the lead up to this race really […]
Hamilton Island Cup 2011
The Austcham Paddle Club recently competed in the Hamilton Island Outrigger Cup 2011 in Australia. It was a four day event with every combination of OC paddling and distances including OC1, OC2, OC6, Stand up paddle, 8km, 16km and 42km marathon change race. Our paddlers produced an outstanding effort to bring home 3 international race […]
Bronze Medal!!
Just to keep you updated – I was lucky enough to come home with a Bronze medal in the Expat Race at the November Boat Quay Dragon Boat race. Germans 1st, Aussie A 2nd & Aussie B 3rd. Go Aussies !! – 2nd & 3rd – and so unlucky not to win considering we beat […]