I am fairly new to this forum and have been reading alot of messages and find that this forum is geared toward the eastern part of Canada. Has anyone ever thought that Dragon Boating occurs all over Canada and the US and propably has teams out there that can beat any team from Ontario.

I'm not saying the Ontario teams are not good but I have seen alot of Western teams that could beat any Ontario team that thinks there the best thing to Dragon Boating.

Also when reading some of the messages on the forum there are alot of people talking negative about festival and what not. I think that this forum should be geared towards how good the sport of Dragon Boating is for the entire Country. If people would spend more time talking positive about Dragon Boating and festivals around Ontario and Canada, I think more people would enjoy this forum alot more and attend more festivals.

That's my thought!!!!!!

I do have to agree with you on some. There is alot of people out there that talk a lot of crap and have tooooo much time on there hands to been on this forum all day and night. I have always thought that there should be some sort of control on this forum. Many people are anno. on this forum and can't have the guts to mention themselves.

Dragon Boaters all over Ontario and Canada should spend more time on the water training and less time on the internet.

Whatever. Fuck off.

"This site is dedicated to ranking the top dragon boat teams in eastern Canada"

There's your answer.

Well, you're right that this forum is geared mainly to the East.

However, the West has their own site here: http://www.dragonboatwest.net if you're interested.

Plus, lots of us already know tons about the West. Jetstart did Vancouver this year, not to mention Edmonton and San Fran last year. Tempest just got back from Kelowna. Para Huti Huti made it out to GWN this year (plus they're even included in our East Rankings as a result).

I've personally been beaten by several excellent Western teams: ROLI, False Creek, BAD, LARD, San Diego, Pacific Reach, Gorging, Wasabi, Subaru, Success... the list goes on and on!

yes i agree there is a lot of negativity towards festivals but if we don't post all these threads then how are those festivals going to change and improve on their mistakes

how?...what about contacting the people who run the festivals instead?
lots of negativity here, but you have to get used to it and ignore most of the crap that you read.
actually most of it is crap, but for unfortuantely it's all that i know about...all that we have.
everything else, i think others have answered already.

New to Forum ... What is the point of your post?

The opening page to this Forum states that the focus is dragonboating in Eastern Canada.

Yeah, there's a lot of negativity. Haven't we been through this before? Crap is entertaining. But most people are also smart enough to separate intelligent comments from fluff. And as long as posts can be made anonymously, the crap will continue.

That's very nice that you're new to the DB forum and community but I do think that you have your facts wrong regarding "a lot of Western teams beating any Ontario team"..

Case in point:
False Creek won Alcan - arguably the strongest field in the west. Got spanked last year at the NACCC... badly.

Case in point:
A watered down Tempest crew, arguably ranked 15th in Ontario, came top 7th in Kelowna

Case in point:
Everytime a race off happens here between the West and East (Crewsers & FCRCC), the east wins.

The Western teams had their time in the spotlight when DB was in its infancy here. The crown goes to the east now.

These crews could probably rock all of the West: Mayfair, Simon River, Imps, G&G, Missy, GWN SENIORS, Hammerheads ... hmmm, have I missed anyone? Probably another 10 teams.

Why not liven it up with an East vs West FLAME WAR!

Bomb Saskatchewan now!

Don't bother bombing Sask., nobody would notice.

LoL....there is no comparision between the Fcrcc team that lost at last yrs NACCC and what they have now ,absolutley none. FCRCC is much faster than they have ever been and I'm sure they very much look forward to coming back east again to give it a shot next yr . After pulling off a 1.52 in Calgary ,there are very very few mixed teams that can do that .Equally Pacific Reach is a completely different team than we have seen before .Both teams are extremely strong and you should not even consider the results that happened in Kelowna as true to the fact.

Both FCRCC & Pacific Reach backed off training right after the race-offs and gave their crews time off from all the intense training . In Kelowna they didn't even have their true crews but were paddling w/ alot of spares and both teams were missing their key stronger paddlers .

Tempest ,if they had gone up again the race-off crews that were in Calgary and, that will be at the cc's next yr ,they would have been beaten alot more severely than they were .Unless you were in Calgary ,you never got to see the true CC crews .I bet both teams were missing 6-8 of their key paddles each.

I really hope you all under estimate these 2 teams next yr ; )

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1.52 in Calgary, eh? What's the current speed on that course again?

Calgary is a resivoir so I doubt it has any significant current ,nice try though .There was no fighting to hold the boat and there was no huge tailwind either when they did that .There actually was a bit of a headwind .

Well, in that case all I can say is that West coast crews are way better. Like 10 seconds better. They rule. West coast has the best everything. Everything. The best patchouli, the best underarm hair, the best leg braids. And the best dragonboaters. And the best excuses. By far the best excuses.

The resevoir in Calgary is DEEP water. War canoe times there from CCA in 1983 and 87 were VERY fast with decent, but not amazing crews. I'd say it is similar in water quality to the new Welland course (i.e north of the causeway) which is very deep fast water and unaffected by current. That's all the explanation you need for that 1:52.