is what I promised in my last blog. I still am in awe of the Village Dragon boat crew members, especially after witnessing their races in Disney this past week-end,\u00a0and was able to\u00a0\u00a0 gather a few more impressive facts that should interest our residents. They recently raced in Hong Kong China this past summer. The Villages was represented by two teams, one was a Standard boat team of 25 crew and one short boat team with 14 crew. How great is that, and I even have another bit of information to impress you with and that is three Village men qualified for the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Dragon Boat Team USA for the Milan, Italy world championships in Aug-Sept. 2012. The Village men were integrated into the Masters Competition racing in the 200M, 500M, and 2000M events with the masters standard and short boat men and mixed teams.\u00a0 I’m sure none of them ever imagined the experiences they would have upon becoming a Villager.\u00a0 I don’t think any of them thought I’m\u00a0buying in The Villages because I want to go to China and Italy.\u00a0 They could buy anywhere and still take a trip, \u00a0but I don’t know of any other place that would offer the opportunity to be accompanied by a dragon…boat that is.\u00a0 Congratulations to all those that qualified and attended those races.\u00a0\u00a0I’m not\u00a0sure what criteria is used when\u00a0picking a name for a\u00a0team, but I’m sure there is great discussion\u00a0as\u00a0I think the name conjures up an attitude and that can be important when competing.\u00a0 As I said previously the three Village teams in Orlando were the Silver Dragons, the Leatherneck Warriors and the Leathernecks.\u00a0 Hearing those names\u00a0gives you a general idea of who they are.\u00a0 Many names gave you locations Windy City Thunder,\u00a0 JAX Fire Dragons Chix with Stix, Philadelphia Flying Phoenix,\u00a0the Capital Drakainas, Toronto Firefighters, Miami Dragon Slayers, Beltway Dragons, and the Charleston Firefighters to name a few.\u00a0 Then there were the all woman teams which included a team of breast cancer survivors, which was very moving.\u00a0 Some of their names were: Seas the Day, Kentucky Thoroughbreasts, Girls Gotta Row, Dragonborn Ladies, Bare Naked Bladies, Dragon Sisters United,\u00a0 Bosom Buddies and Mammoglams.\u00a0\u00a0 Then there were the very descriptive names such as: \u00a0Geeks in the Creek, Insanity Rules, Team Insanity, Why Don’t We Get Drunk & Crew,\u00a0 We’ll Have Another, Organized Chaos, Aquaholics Dragon Boat Club, Fire Breathing Bubbas and\u00a0on the magical side:\u00a0\u00a0Hope Floats, Magic Dragons and Disney Dragons.\u00a0 Downtown Disney holds the Dragon Boat competition\u00a0every year and I highly recommend you join the fun and cheer our teams on…we beat all the other teams and it would be fun to have the largest group of fans in attendance…I’m sure we could do that.\u00a0 Stay tuned for next years date, and I’ll see you in the stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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