The Dragon Roars Again !
Nashville Dragon Boat Races and Festival
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Riverfront Park, Nashville, Tennessee
To sign up for this year's races, contact Brooke through
email or by calling 615-430-4900
Congratulations to:
The Nashville Outlaws Rugby Club
2008 Grand Champions
Results Are Here.
Here is the Shared Photo Page
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Best Team Building Exercise: Dragon Boat Racing
(full story here - http://tinyurl.com/6mxeq4)
Teamwork is key to winning Nashville’s newest tradition, the dragon boat race. Twenty rowers, sitting in a long canoe-like vessel, must paddle in absolute harmony or victory is unattainable. A drummer sitting at the head of the boat sets the pace—think Spartacus with less dying. Dragon boating started in China 2,500 years ago. The prows of the boats are decorated with a large, fearsome dragon head while a scaly, dragon tail curls from the stern. The race was held here for the first time in August on the Cumberland. The Scene fielded a team—Dragon Ass—and through practice, paddling and heckling the other teams, employees who at first didn’t even know each others’ names became pals. We may not have won first place, but it beat the hell out of trust falls and ropes courses at a corporate picnic. —P.J. TOBIA