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.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it…..Different Strokes women are on this week’s SX Magazine (Sydney’s #1 Gay & Lesbian News Magazine)! Read all about our women’s amazing journey to being world champions at the 10th Club Crew World Championships in Adelaide last month. Make sure you grab a hardcopy or you can read it online … Continue reading From Gold Coins to Gold Medals
A selection of photos from the first season of Different Strokes Dragon Boat Club. Photos are from the 2008 Dobroyd 10s, 2008 Penrith regatta, from a training session (in the pink boat!), 2009 Tacoma regatta and 2009 Chinese New Year regatta. Thank you to Brigette and Nigel for contributing photos.
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.
Thank you for coming out to our Open Day!
Cloudy, rainy and cold… it’s a great way to start off your Dragon Boat journey.
Another Race done and dusted! All those trainings with anchors/pyramids/goNows/giveMeMores, fitness test (for some, the day before) of push ups ah/pull ups of please let me reach that bar/sit ups of those are my abs?!?/beep test of come on just one more time across that line and extracurricular sessions at the gym(pokemon+real one)/outside taking selfies … Continue reading DBNSW Regatta Series – Race 2 (9 October 2016)
1st Dragon Boat Regatta of the 2016/17 season. Different Strokes came home with Gold for Premier and Masters Women backed up by Bronze for both Premier Mixed and Masters Mixed!! To top it all off we had fun racing and cheering each other on. What an amazing start to the season!
