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What a cracker of a day! Today’s 2019/20 Regatta Series Race 2 pushed our paddlers, sweeps, drummers, and coaches to a different level. And these silverwares gave us such a 500m high!🥉Senior A Mixed🥈Premier Mixed🥇Premier Women🥇Senior A Women🥉Senior A OpensPremier Opens 6thGreat work to our new paddlers on their first race! 💪🏼And congratulations to everyone … Continue reading Race 2 – 2019

DBNSW 2019/20 Race 1: SUN, WIND, WATER AND BLINGS! Hard work and success met today! Great work from our paddlers, drummers, [spectacular] sweeps, and coaches! Awesome racing across all our crews with 55 of our members on the water: Premier Mixed - Gold 🥇Senior A Mixed - Silver 🥈Premier Women’s - Gold 🥇Senior A Women’s … Continue reading Race 1 – 2019

💜💜💜 Standing Up and Standing Out for today’s Wear It Purple Paddle Day! Have a great weekend everyone! 💜💜💜 

Different Strokes would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be putting our paddles up for a little rest until the 3rd January 2019 when we start training hard towards Nationals in April.

By Hannah Gray Representing Australia in sport is a special and privileged moment I was lucky enough to experience. On Friday the 9th of December 2018, The Aurora’s travelled to Foshan, China, for the 13th Asian Championships. I started dragon boat racing after a few mates of mine found out about it at Sydney’s Fair Day … Continue reading The rainbow team bringing inclusivity to dragon boating.

Different Strokes Dragon Boat Club celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. From its small beginnings when nine members entered the club’s first regatta in 2008, the club now has over 100 members with multiple teams competing.

It’s Mardi Gras Season! Thank you for visiting us at our Fair Day stall. If you didn’t, sorry we missed you.

Wowsers! There goes the final points regatta prior to Chinese New Year as well as State and National Championship races.  We saw great spirit, passion and drive from all the teams that went out on the water. With the morning races focusing on the mixed crews, we had Gin, Tonic, and Mixed Master go out … Continue reading DBNSW Regatta Series – Race 4 (15 January 2017)

Different Strokes is hosting our friends, family, other LGBTQ clubs and all our fellow paddlers in the dragon boat community in a fab night full of Trivia questions, raffles, games, silent auctions, and prizes galore.