IDBF has clear regulations on the carbon dragon boat paddle blade's thickness : the blade edge thickness should be min 4mm between 10mm and 360mm from the blade tip. unfortunately that some manufacturers reduce raw material on paddle blade construction in order to make lightweight, a lot of carbon dragon boat paddles in current market is of very thin thickness, less than 4mm, do not meet the IDBF requirements at all. Although these carbon dragon boat paddles have IDBF label.
We sincerely recommend that pls kindly measure the thickness of your paddle blade to check whether it is 4mm thickness and indeed IDBF approved.
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-from international canoe federation
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]]>Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four top traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Over the past 40 years, the sport of dragon boat racing has grown beyond the Dragon Boat Festival’s official holiday celebration on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month every year. Today, there’s a full summer race schedule spanning from February through October in cities across the United States.
Here’s a look at six of .
1. Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race Established in 1989, the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is an annual cultural event hosted by the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association. The event features as many as 96 dragon boat teams from all over the world who race in Taiwan-style dragon boats.
2. Boston Dragon Boat Festival Established in 1979, the Boston Dragon Boat Festival is the first and oldest such festival in North America. It has grown from a small neighborhood event to the largest Chinese American cultural event in New England, drawing more than 20,000 participants and spectators annually. 3. Colorado Dragon Boat Festival Established in 2001, the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival now attracts more than 125,000 guests to its annual two day event. The races are a popular and free family summertime event that focus on cultural education, leadership development and athletic competition.
4.Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival The Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival represents cooperation, friendship and trade between Kansas City, Mexico and China. The festival’s dragon boats are gifts from China to “The Society for Friendship with China” of Kansas City and were the first shipment opening a trade route from Shanghai, China, to Lazaros Cardenas, Mexico, to Kansas City, Missouri.
5. The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York Established in 1990, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York provides audiences with traditional Chinese foods and performances, and hosts over 120 dragon boat teams from across North America, making it one of the largest dragon boat festivals in the United States.
6. San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival Established in 1996, the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival hosts more than 120 teams from around the world and has grown to include cultural activities, creative arts, exhibits, live performances and immersive experiences for both kids and adults in a family-friendly space.
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]]>The Carolina Pro-Am Presented by Salt Life and Infinity Surf is a three-day Stand Up Paddle (SUP) Surf event, drawing the world’s best Professional and Amateur Paddle Surfers along with the First Comp divisions and the exciting Bully Board tandem body board division.
The Carolina Pro-Am was brought to life in 2014 by local businessmen and avid surfers Haywood Newkirk and Jason Colclough with a vision of bringing the best sup surfers from around the world to come and take in the North Carolina surf and local hospitality. The event also presents the Haywood Newkirk Sr. Award which is awarded to the competitor with the best combined results in both Pro Open and Pro Longboard divisions. Past recipients include Jarrod Covington 2014 (NC), Kieran Grant 2015 (Florida), Bullet Obra 2016 (Hawaii) Martin Letourneur 2017 (France), Izzi Gomez 2019 (CA), Bernd Roediger 2021 (HI) and Candice Appleby 2022 (USA).
“The Carolina Pro Am is a grass roots vibe along while having the top sup surfers in the world to Wrightsville Beach, NC”, states Haywood Newkirk, CPA founder. Newkirk continues, “We are proud to showcase the sport and at our home break that offers some of the best surf on the East Coast.”
Since 2014, the Carolina Pro-Am has attracted the top amateur and world class competitors including Colin McPhillips (3-time World Longboard Champion), Caio Vaz (2016 APP World Champion), Izzy Gomez (2-time APP World Champion), Emmy Merrill (2-time ISA World Champion), Mo Freitas, Giorgio Gomez and the 2022 winner, Candice Appleby (many times champion, Sup and Surf). More importantly, the Carolina Pro-Am supports the amateur divisions to help the grow the sport and the local community that has allowed the Carolina Pro-Am to become one of the top sup surfing contests in the country and the longest running Pro-Am event in the world.
With the continued support and recognition provided the World Paddle Association and many media outlets, the Carolina Pro Am is the SUP surf industries premier events. In addition, CPA offers the “First Comp” division for first time sup surf competitors, Masters Pro division (40+) and the Bully Board tandem body board division for all levels of competitors and family to enjoy.
From World Paddle Association
]]>The canoes and kayaks have barely had time to dry since the Tokyo Olympic Games, but in six months’ time at London’s Lee Valley the world’s best athletes will need to put everything on the line again as they battle to earn a place at next year’s Olympic Games in London.
The 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships will also double as the Paris 2024 Olympic qualifiers, a chance for athletes to earn country quotas for the Games. It’s a cut-throat competition, with each country only able to earn one quota per event.
The 2012 Olympic venue also hosted the Olympic qualifiers in 2015 ahead of the Rio Games, an event full of thrills, surprises and upsets. Great Britain’s Joe Clarke and France’s Denis Gargaud Chanut, who went on to win Olympic gold in the K1 and C1 respectively in Brazil, did not even make the finals at the Olympic qualifiers.
Spain’s Maialen Chourraut, the women’s K1 gold medalist in Rio, finished fifth in London at the qualifiers.
Generally those who become world champions the year before the Olympics haven’t gone on to win Games’ gold. Czech Jiri Prskavec bucked the trend in the men’s K1 in Tokyo, the first athlete since Slovakia’s Michal Martikan pulled off the double in 2007-08 in the men’s C1.
This year in London 15 quotas in each of the men’s and women’s K1 will be on offer, and 12 in each of the men’s and women’s C1. The three quotas in each of the men’s and women’s kayak cross won’t be decided until a special qualifying event in early 2024.
This year’s world championships is likely to be the last for several of the world’s best paddlers of the past decade or longer. Two-time world champion and 2016 Olympic silver medalist, Peter Kauzer, extended his career by three years after initially planning to retire after Tokyo, while another four-time Olympian and Games silver medalist, New Zealand’s Luuka Jones, has also announced this will be her last campaign.
This is likely to also be the last world championships for Olympic gold medalists Chourraut and Gargaud Chanut, while Slovakia’s Alexander Slafkovsky and Austria’s Corinna Kuhnle have both mentioned retirement, however are continuing to race.
The 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross World Championships will be held from September 19 until the 24th at London’s Lee Valley.
From International Canoe Federation
]]>Half of the population in the world are women. Unfortunately, this is not reflected by equal access to all areas of life in a lot of countries around the world.
Even on International Women’s Day 2023 women have still to fight for equal rights.
Fortunately, not in our Federation.
Canoeing cannot change the world but can make in terms of gender equity and access the world a better place.
Almost half of our millions of paddlers around the world are women. Our Olympic program is gender balanced, in terms of both events and numbers. All our disciplines offer access for both genders.
Nowadays it`s normal that every ICF decision is considered under the light of gender impact, and we do not allow any decisions that do not take gender equity into account or disadvantage women.
More and more women are being elected to important positions in ICF bodies.
Thanks to a lot of dedicated women and a few dedicated men, the general mindset in our Federation changed completely during the last decades. Gender equality has become a common goal for all our stakeholders.
Despite all of this, we are still far away from gender equality at the ICF, but we are getting better. And because this topic is an important and common aspiration, I`m sure we will still get better in the future.
Already it is the new normal not to discuss gender equality anymore, but simply to expect it with each of our decisions.
Please let`s consider together in our clubs, National Federations and in all of our ICF bodies this goal as one of the crucial aims for a successful future for canoeing.
Our sport and our federation would be much poorer without the spirit and the ideas of our women. We are blessed with a lot of role models, including female athletes and female officials who have performed a lot of the heavy lifting for our sport . Many of these women have made great sacrifices but their passion has inspired people across canoeing.
Today I want to say thanks to all our women in canoeing, wherever in the world they are doing our sport, or however they are helping to develop our sport. Canoeing would be not the same and in such a strong position without your tireless efforts.
From International Canoe Federation
]]>Based on the available bids and following a virtual meeting last week to review the documentation, the European Rowing Board is now delighted to announce these events were attributed as follows:
The European Rowing Board would like to thank the Hungarian and Serbian federations for their bids, and the World Rowing Events team for their support in assessing the bids. The dates of both events will be confirmed as soon as possible.
“We are delighted to be able to confirm these two attributions for our premier event, the European Championships, in 2024 and 2025, said Annamarie Phelps, Chair of the European Rowing Board. Next year in Szeged the Championships will also incorporate Paris 2024 qualification races, offering the opportunity for eligible crews to earn slots at Olympic or Paralympic Games for the first time, making this a must-watch event. Serbia has hosted a number of World events recently but the European Championships return to Belgrade for the first time since 2014. With so many recent events under their belt I am sure the Organising Committee will deliver a fantastic event for athletes and spectators. “
“It is a great honour for us that Szeged can host the European Rowing Championships and the Continental Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta, added Ottó Cseh, President of the Hungarian Rowing Association. Organising the event is extremely important for the Hungarian rowing community as well, as it is a great opportunity to give bigger popularity to rowing in our country and region. The event will take place at the Szeged Olympic Canoe and Rowing Centre, which has now become an excellent venue for rowing regattas due to the upgrades and infrastructure improvements in the past few years.”
“The Rowing Federation of Serbia was happy to receive the news that European Rowing agreed to have the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, stated Vladimir Antic, Secretary General of the Serbian Rowing Federation. Belgrade welcomed the European Rowing Championships in 2014, and after successfully organising the European Rowing Junior Championships in 2020, and then World Rowing Cup I in 2022 at the Ada Ciganlija course, we will host this year the largest rowing competition in the world – the World Rowing Championships. We want to continue turning Belgrade into a quality destination on the map of rowing, and will make sure that the European Championships in 2025 will bring good memories to all participants. I hereby once again sincerely thank the European Rowing Board for their trust.”
The European Rowing Championships are among the oldest pan-continental sporting events and are able to trace their history back to 1893. The event has progressed a long way from its 19th century origins – with just three races and all for men.
The European Rowing Championships are among the oldest pan-continental sporting events and are able to trace their history back to 1893. The event has progressed a long way from its 19th century origins – with just three races and all for men.
The European Rowing Championships were staged almost annually from 1893 to 1973 after which they were replaced by the World Rowing Championships. A European Championships event was reintroduced into the international rowing calendar in 2007. In 2013, the championships were moved to an early season spot and thus have become an integral event for many teams.
-From World Rowing
-----News from World Rowing
]]>For most people, a paddle board trip in summer is definitely a perfect experience. Whether you're a SUP beginner or an experienced paddle boarder, we've put together a summary to help you dress like a pro.
Sports swimsuit
When paddling, your focus is more on the motion of the paddle and the direction the paddle is going. Apart from that, the choice of swimwear is also something you need to pay attention to. Sporty swimsuits feature UV protection and quick-drying technology, plus a great fit to help you move more freely. That's why sports swimwear designed for swimming and surfing is your ideal choice.
Sun protection clothing
When you alternate between paddling and surfing in calmer waters, sun protection clothing not only protects your skin from UV rays, but also protects your skin from the wear and tear of the board.
Sunscreen
We know this isn't strictly speaking clothing, but we feel it's our duty to tell you to put on sunscreen before you're going to use your SUP. This will give you extra peace of mind.
Hat
A hat may be a personal preference, but when paddling long distances in the sun, a hat may be a better way to cover your cheeks and keep your head cool. Make sure the hat fits the circumference of your head and won't be blown away by the wind.
Polarized sunglasses
There is a big difference between polarized and polarized sunglasses. When the sun reflects off the water, it's easy to distract you. Polarized sunglasses help eliminate glare so you can see clearly without distractions. Therefore, polarized sunglasses are essential.
Wade Shoes
In most cases, you can paddle without shoes. But if you're paddling in backwaters or where there's bushes and debris, it's a good idea to have a pair of wading shoes on hand. When choosing wading shoes, choose rubber soles, which create more friction on the paddle board.
If you know exactly how to dress in summer, spring and fall, all you have to do is round up some summer essentials and get paddling.
The Right Fabric
In spring and autumn, when you first enter the water, it may feel a little cold. Wear absorbent fabrics or fleeces that dry quickly and regulate body temperature as the weather changes. Note that cotton is not in our consideration because when cotton gets wet, it gets soggy and does nothing to help regulate body temperature.
Trench coa
The sudden gust of wind brings cold to people. You are vulnerable to these winds when paddling in fall and spring (especially in coastal waters). A windbreaker is the ideal top to protect you from the cold, it's lighter than a normal coat and won't weigh you down.
Rubber boots
When the water floods the paddle board, the feet feel the cold shiver even more. And rubber booties are a great option to help keep your feet warm and dry.
If you're researching what to wear for paddling in winter, take a look at our recommendations. We want to make sure you can handle the conditions when paddling in winter.
Wetsuit
The right choice when wearing a wetsuit when the temperature plummets. Wetsuits designed for cold-weather surfing work well for stand-up paddling and paddle boarding. A well-fitting wetsuit can help you maintain your body temperature without compromising your range of motion.
water proof coat
If wetsuits aren't your thing, consider opting for a warm and waterproof jacket. Whether it's paddle board fishing or paddle board surfing, outdoor enthusiasts need shelter from wind and rain in inclement weather.
Rubber boots
No matter what activity you do, your feet can get wet, so rubber booties can help keep your feet dry and not bulky while paddling.
Rubber gloves
Cold air dries out your skin, and there's nothing worse than cracking your knuckles. Rubber gloves keep your hands warm so you can easily grip the paddle and keep your pace.
No matter the season, wearing the right clothing when paddling is essential to your SUP experience.
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