Update BCS teams in Germany - 1st quarter
By Svenja-BruhnThe development in Germany continues to be a very positive one. Many embrace this rehabilitative sport and there are several initiatives to start a new pink team. Latest example is the pink paddler Orga-team within the Ghostdragons at the 1.Hallescher Drachenboot Verein (City: Halle) looking for new BCS paddlers. Not easy in Corona times. On the other hand it is often not a bad way to start looking for members first as we have seen in Argentina, where they had no dragonboat at the...
June 18, 2020Update on Austria/Vienna Pink Dragons - 1st quarter 2020
By Svenja Franke-Bruhn, Annelore Palac & Helen JohnstonSince the beginning of the year the Vienna Pink Dragons have seen many dramatic changes like so many other clubs around the world. In January and February we were still out on the water paddling in combined sessions with the Vienna Dragons, while others walked or biked around the Alte Donau. This was followed by the newly introduced team lunch, which proved to also be a great way to introduce our newbies to our group. Who could foresee t...
June 18, 2020Working out during a pandemic
By coach Linda KuskaLives have been changed, lives have been lost, jobs have been lost, businesses have suffered, everyone is self-quarantining, social distance/physical distancing are everyday words now.With all this happening around the World, dragon boating just doesn't seem very important right now......right?? Yes, that is true but physical activity is so good for our mental and physical health.Most dragon boat festivals have been canceled, paddling in a dragon boat is not possible since yo...
June 18, 2020Get ready to register for the Dragon Boat Festival 2022
Oh my goodness, no doubt you will have received the countdown notices. The clock has certainly been ticking. Whilst registration was due to open on the 1st April 2020, due to the current worldwide situation with COVID-19 the Festival organising committee (AWTO Trust) and the IBCPC Future Festivals Committee issued a joint statement advising that the registration has been delayed until 1st July 2020. So that gives you an extra time to plan and get ready in time to register. We can reassure y...
May 7, 2020IBCPC's Strategic Planning Session
Updated: Jun 19, 2020Since inception IBCPC’s global membership has continued to grow from that early start with 57 teams represented at the first IBCPC Congress in 2010.As you will see with the achievements over the past 20 months (listed below) we have been really busy (remember too that we are all volunteers with day jobs other than lucky Betty Solley who is retired). We realise that it is high time that we thought strategically “where to from here”. We had hoped to start ...
May 7, 2020Life on the "Front Lines" during Covid-19 - a Nurse's Perspective
By Linda Kuska in CanadaLife has been much different for the entire WORLD with Covid-19 but what is it like for a Health Care Worker?What is life on the "Front Lines"?How are hospital workers dealing with this?You all know me for my articles in this Newsletter as the "High-Performance Coach", I am the Team Captain of the Rowbust BCS Dragon Boat Team in London, Ontario, Canada........... but in my "real" life, I am a Registered Nurse at the London Health Sciences Centre ...
May 7, 2020Living in a dream world. Dreams become reality.
by Virginia Mezzo, Chicas Pink, Santa FeDreamers, Passionate, Romantic, Fun, Fine, Smart, Drive, Fighters, together we travelled to Escobar, Argentina for the 2nd national meeting of Pink Women from across Argentina.Everything was Pink, what a paradox, so exciting to all be together living this dream with these survivors from Argentina. On Saturday morning, the Pink hosts, ROSAS DEL PLATA, welcomed us all with so much warmth. The place next to the lake was swathed in Pink. We were so excite...
May 7, 2020Rosas del Plata celebrate the 2nd Argentina Pink meeting as seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old
My name is Paul Yadid. I am 17 years old and I am starting my last year of high school next week.On Saturday, March 7th my brother Lucas and I were involved in helping with registration at the 2nd Argentine Pink festival that gathered together over 100 pink paddlers from all over our country, Argentina. My uncle Roberto Yahni who is a gynaecologist/obstetrician (my mom, Matilde Yahni spares no one in the family) was also involved by giving a lecture about the benefits of exercise post ...
May 7, 2020Chinese Dragon Sisters follow their dream during Coronavirus Quarantine
Report by IBCPC China Rep Beirong (Bei) Xiong March 21, 2020China’s women, men and children have experienced a most unusual 2020 Chinese New Year and the longest homestay quarantine in history, all in aid of containing the COVID-19 virus. It has been over 9 weeks now since communities across the country locked down.We checked in with members of the newly minted breast cancer survivor dragon boat teams in Shanghai and Beijing to see how they are coping. Despite the difficult and unusu...
May 5, 2020Italy in lockdown from Lucia’s perspective
All of us around the world live in very hard times right now because of the sneaky COVID-19 virus. This virus has no borders, it comes and goes wherever it likes and as it pleases. My country, Italy, is suffering very much, we are shedding many tears over the >10,000 deaths. The tireless work of all the medical staff is so very moving to observe, they are taking care of all patients, not only as professional staff but also offering the last words comfort and kindness to these people...
May 5, 2020IBCPC Newsletter - March 2019
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March 1, 2020From the desk of IBCPC President Meri Gibson
Best wishes for a very Happy New Year everyone. It seems such a long time ago since we turned over the pages of the calendar to 2020 and so much seems to have happened for so many of you since our last greeting in December 2019.The northern Hemisphere has been sheltering from the cold, although a few hearty souls have recently been “paddling” at the Ice Dragon Boat festival in Ottawa, Canada and I am sure we will have an update from the BC attendees. One of my colleagues from New Zealand wen...
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