Five members of the Phantom Dragons team attended the Bow Wave Dragon Boat Camp in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida last week. The camp is held annually, and Phantom Dragons coaches and paddlers have been participating for the past six years.
Lao Buddhist Team holds 1st Practice
The local dragon boat “on-the-water” training season has officially begun. The Lao Buddhist team took to the water in two of DRACO’s 10-man Mini-Dragons this past Saturday (March 29), in an effort to get a jump start on the competition.
Luke Esbenson Steers in AZ
Phantom Dragons paddler Luke Esbenson, certified last year to steer in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, got his first experience steering for teams in a major dragon boat event when he volunteered to help at the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival in Tempe, AZ on March 22-23, Luke steered for 16 races over the course of the weekend (in addition to racing with his Phantom Dragons team), and did an outstanding job!
Shown below is Luke, steering for the CRAA team (with several other Phantom Dragons helping fill out the crew, and Tom Ging drumming).
Phantom Dragons compete in Arizona Festival
Congratulations to the Phantom Dragons team for their strong showing in the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival held March 22-23, 2K14. Short-handed for the event, the Phantoms crew had much appreciated help by paddlers from Wasabi Power Surge, L.A. Harbor Dragons, DragonMax and NAC.
This year’s Arizona Festival was a very competitive event. Check out the full Race Results
Several Phantom Dragons paddlers got in quite a bit of extra racing, filling in on teams from Stanford, NAC and CRAA.
Here are a few photos taken at the event (thanks to Kwok de La Luna for those he shared on Facebook)!
Phantom Dragons train for Arizona Races
The Phantom Dragons are training hard to get ready for the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival, to be held March 22-23, 2014 on Tempe Town Lake. The team is shown here, training in the Pool Simulator designed and constructed by Team Captain / Head Coach Michael J. Boyd.
Olympic Torch ride in Dragon Boat
With Sochi’s torch relay coming to an end, this beautiful Dragon Boat leads the pack on the Volga River in Tvertsa. Sweet!
Spirit of the Lake Regatta
SPIRIT OF THE LAKE REGATTA & GRAND LAKE BREWFEST
Date: August 23, 2014
Location: Grand Lake
Grand Lake, Colorado
(A DRACO Mini-Dragon Race Series Event)
Kinetic Sculpture / Dragon Boat Race
KINETIC SCULPTURE / DRAGON BOAT RACE
Date: June 21, 2014
Location: Union Reservoir
Longmont, Colorado
(A DRACO Mini-Dragon Race Series Event)
Arizona Dragon Boat Festival
Deborah J. Boyd – Coach Bio
Deborah Boyd (Princess) got her start in dragon boating in 2004, when she was reluctantly recruited to race in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival on a team led by Michael Boyd (later to become her husband).
Deb has attended week-long dragon boat camps taught by world champion level coaches / paddlers in Florida for the past twelve years, and completed a Dragon Boat Canada Level I Recreational Coaching Certification course in 2012.
Now Co-Captain and Assistant Coach of the Phantom Dragons, Deb (a/k/a Princess) has helped her team to successfully compete in out-of-state festivals in Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland and Tempe, Arizona.