Los Angeles Racing Dragons News

Save the Date - LARDSale

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:29:05 -0700

Hi LARDies,

Please mark your calendars and save your old clothes and housewares, because we're having a yard sale! The date: Oct 2nd, the Saturday after San Francisco. These sales are very important to the team because they help raise the money that we use to pay for boats, registration fees, insurance, food, and all the other expenses we have throughout the year.

The location is going to be Susan's house in the south bay, which she is so graciously offering again after our successful sale there in the springtime. It's a chance to see your friends without any land training involved! And just to stir up even more excitement, there will be some prizes for people who volunteer to help put it on (ie making and posting signs, setting up/taking down, etc). An evite will follow shortly, but in the meantime... mark your calendars... check your garages... save your stuff....

Please email me if you have any questions, you're interested in volunteering or you know you have stuff to contribute. And remember, your donations are tax deductible.

thanks,
Meghan

Camelbak

Kenny H Kim — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:04:24 -0700

Camelbak is now the official water bottle of The Los Angeles Racing Dragons.

2nd Annual Paddle Art Contest Winner!

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:29:24 -0700

This annual award was started 2009 in commemoration of Arthur Yeh, one of the original LARD members who tragically passed away late 2007 in a car accident. His two loves, art and dragonboating, come together in this annual contest.

This year's winner Kristina was presented with a carbon fiber paddle at the 2010 Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival in Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, July 31st, 2010.

The beautiful artwork submitted by Kristina.

Kristina receiving her Melin Carbon Fiber paddle at the Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival.

Thank you all for your submissions.

Meghan talks about Dragonboat Racing

Kenny H Kim — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:01:56 -0700

July 22nd, 2010

My name is Meghan and one of my favorite fitness activities is dragonboating. A dragonboat is basically a 40 foot long canoe that holds up to 20 paddlers (in 10 rows), a steersperson, and a caller/drummer. It's a big, heavy boat and paddling is a great workout for your entire body but especially your back, core and arms.

Read more from our very own Megha at Adventures in Fitness LA

Yearbook Update

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:38:23 -0700

Sorry for the delays, but I've finally put together the photos and stories for Baby Long Beach 2010.

There might be one ore two more stories to add as they come in.

If you find an error or an omission, please feel free to blip me an email to correct it.

Kenny

2nd Annual Paddle Art Contest

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:30:36 -0700

Attention all paddlers who are at least 15 years old and under 24 years old

The Los Angeles Racing Dragons (LARD) invites the local community to enter the second annual paddle art contest with a chance to win a carbon fiber paddle.

The purpose of the contest is to promote the sport of dragon boat. All individuals at least 15-years-old and under 24-years-old are eligible to enter.

The winner will be presented with a carbon fiber paddle at the 2010 Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival in Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, July 31st, 2010. The winning artwork will also be featured on a wooden paddle and the LARD website.

This contest is inspired by one of LARD's very own members, Arthur Yeh, who passed away in 2007. Arthur was passionate about both art and the sport of dragon boat. (For those who have seen it and don't know, the green hamster dragon was one of Arthur's creations.) In his memory, LARD established the Paddle Art contest in 2009 to promote the sport he loved and to nurture artistic creativity in the local community.

See the attached for more information, including the application forms.

Best of luck! Please don't hesitate to spread the word to other paddlers out there!

2010_Paddle_Art_Application.pdf

Kenny H Kim — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:18:55 -0700

This was my first time organizing a Lardsale and it went GREAT!!

A huge thanks to EVERYBODY that came out to help, even if for a couple of hours. We were pretty busy throughout the day and having an "army" there really helped with all the customers!

A special thanks to:

Susan for letting us take over her front yard for most of the day
Lori, Susan, Jessee, K1, Jeannie and C Dub for being troopers and helping out ALL DAY
Kenny for bringing a table and a clothes rack (especially since the wind/ heavy clothes killed the other one...)
Vi for being "refreshing drinks" and goodies
Leon for bringing goodies to share
Ken and Tammy for bring refreshing drinks at the end of the day
K1 who was our banker
Jesse (again) & Greg for walking all over the neighborhood and putting up the signs
Delwin for being "Phil" for the day

Thank you everybody again!!

K Dub

Yearbook Updated

Kenny H Kim — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:41:37 -0700

Well done at Tempe. Read what your teammates had to say about the event with photos and video in the yearbook

-Kenny

New Paddler Clinic

Kenny H Kim — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:14:44 -0700

Interested in paddling dragon boat? Come meet the LA Racing Dragons and learn how to effectively paddle a dragon boat.

Here are the details:

Session #1 - April 17th, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - Intro to paddling, on-water practice, meet the team

Session #2 - April 24th, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - More practice and instruction

Session #3 - May 1st, 9:00-11:00 a.m. -Last practice and instruction before the Long Beach Spring Race.

Race - May 2nd - Race with TeamLARD at the Long Beach Spring Race!

Where? Mother's Beach (Marine Park), Long Beach (Near PCH & 2nd Street on Appian Way)

UPDATE: Here's the Evite Link - Please RSVP if you're interested!

Check out the flyer: 2010_LARD_New_Paddler_Clinic_revd.pdf

A Few From This Past Weekend

Scott D. Wu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:03:30 -0800

Saturday we headed out to the Rosemead training facility to do erg testing and did a tiny bit of paddling in the pool - until it started pouring rain.

Sunday we were back on the water. Yet another beautiful day in Long Beach

Only a few more practices before Tempe!

On Water Practice Only This Weekend

Scott D. Wu — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:07:33 -0800

For this weekend only, LARD will have on water practices only. There will be no land training either day.

Reason?

The coaches will be running a paddling clinic for the Los Angeles Pink Dragons on Saturday.

On Sunday all of the coaches and some of our paddlers will be participating in the Chinatown Firecracker run.

Will has agreed to run practice on Sunday. Thanks, Will!

And So It Begins

Scott D. Wu — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:12:57 -0800

Next weekend is the official start of the LARD's 2010 season.

Here's the schedule:

Saturday: 8:00am Land Training - 9:00am Regular Practice

Sunday: 7:30am Regular Practice - 10:00 Land Training

This year's land training is courtesy of Dr. Will Wu.

Practice & Evites

Scott D. Wu — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:51:05 -0800

With the official start of the 2010 race season right around the corner (February 20), we're seeing the team's excitement at our off season weekend practices. I hope to see more and more of you at practice as the week's progress.

Because of new SCDBC regulations, we need your help in responding as quickly as you can to the team evites that are going out at the beginning of each week. Please respond to these evites by Wednesday afternoon so we can notify SCDBC of our boat needs for the upcoming weekend. The sooner you can "nail down" your weekend plans, the better we will be able to get the team out on the water in a timely fashion.

If you don't receive an evite by Tuesday, please email me or any of the other coaches.

Thanks,

Scott

Happy New Year

Kenny H Kim — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:21:42 -0800

We have our insurance policy and are now allowed to practice on the water if and only if you have signed the new waivers for the insurance company. If you have not signed one, you will not be allowed to paddle on the water.

Speaking of paddling on the water, there will be practice this weekend!

Saturdays are still at 9am, but our Sunday schedule has been changed for this year.

Sunday practices are now at 7:30am.

There are new attendance requirements by the SCDBC (the fine group that rents us boat time). Be sure to checkin to have your attendance taken so we can remain in compliance with these new SCDBC rules.

See you out on the water!

Annual Meeting

Kenny H Kim — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:07:23 -0800

Thank you's to everyone who assisted with the LARD Sale. These volunteer events are critical fundraising events to continue our mission to promote dragonboating.

Don't forget this weekend is our annual meeting for members to vote for your next year's board members.

These are the requirements to be able to vote:
paid 2009 membership fees
signed all your waivers
signed the code of conduct.
If you have any question on these items, check the website for your status or email the captains.

Dress Code:
Guests wearing the following items will NOT be admitted: Tennis shoes, work boots, ripped and/or oversized, cargo, or baggy jeans, revealing clothing including exposed undergarments and bare midriffs, tank tops, or sports attire such as jogging suits or jerseys, bandanas, bandana-type head coverings, beanies, shorts, and sandals. Hats must be removed before entering. A blazer or collared shirt must be worn if blue jeans are worn.

ACCEPTABLE ATTIRE:
Button up collared shirts, slacks, khaki-style pants, blazers, dresses, dress shoes.

Yard Sale

Kenny H Kim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:43 -0700

We have our yard sale coming up on the 7th of November. Please find time to help run the yard sale as well as donating (tax deductible) items for the sale. This is a great opportunity to clear out your garage. I know i have a stack of boxes of ju -- treasures to be sold this year.

If you have an account on the site, please check your email for instructions on how to signup for this event.

2nd Annual Friends and Family Day

Kenny H Kim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:22:23 -0700

Have you ever had to explain to your friends, coworkers, family members, neighbors why you are walking all funny because of HPC? Or explain to them why you have to get up butt early on the weekends? Then get incredulous looks from them because it seems like you are speaking alien gibberish?

Well, this is the opportunity to show them instead of just telling them. Instead of the usual intense practice, we'll take it nice and easy around Naple Island. Afterwards, we'll be having lunch catered by L&L. $10 for LARD members, free for guests.

So please sign up ASAP so we'll know how many people to order for.

Chuck

It's Time to Write the Ending

Kenny H Kim — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:37:58 -0700

Just think - after this weekend, you can sleep in guilt-free on weekends, paddle oc1 guilt-free, suck down that banana split guilt-free, spend some time with that neglected significant other, or whatever you desire. You deserve it. You trained hard, you represented LARD well.

BUT, we have one more weekend before you can sleep in. One more very important weekend. It's the weekend that can make or break our season - it can be either explained away with excuses or a glorious memory for all of us to enjoy. The choice is yours.

Our team demands your attention for one more weekend - your commitment for one more weekend - your heart for one more weekend and that will be it for this year.

It's time to execute. Every single stroke this weekend will be perfect. I know it. You know it. Be confident but not cocky.

I can't wait.

Let's write this ending.

~Scott

Paddle Art

Megan C Yeh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:23:53 -0700

At the Long Beach Festival we announced the winner to our annual Paddle Art Contest. For those of you that didn't get a chance to hear about it, it's a contest that is sponsored by the Arthur Yeh Memorial Fund. This contest hopes to promote the two things that my brother was passionate about; his aspirations to become an artist and dragon boating, recognized by his dedication to this team (10 years). This contest is open to anyone from high school to college age and requires the contestant to submit a piece of art that represents LARD's mission statement. The winner of this contest has to transfer his/her artwork to a paddle and as a prize receives a carbon fiber. This year's winner is Rachelle Wong (pictured below), a member of Phil's Dragonauts. We hope to make this an annual contest, so all you young'ins get ready to draw!

Left to right: Alex Yeh (brother), Megan Yeh (sister), Rachelle Wong (2009 Winner), Phil Sun (Director)

Rachelle's winning artwork.

//And a special shout out goes out to Deborah and Kim of MerlinGearUSA for their contribution of the Cd2 paddle to the community. Thanks from LARD and the Long Beach dragon boat community! - Lilly Chen//

Portland ho!

Kenny H Kim — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:51:31 -0700

Our team mates are up in Portland this weekend. We are all eagerly awaiting photos and stories! *hint hint*

Practices are a GO

Kenny H Kim — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:14:48 -0700

With only a few weekends left before our Portland and San Francisco races, practices will be resuming this wednesday and continuing this weekend.

For those of you curious, attendance points are used as one factor in determining seating for the black squad. Lets make an extra effort to make it to practice on time.

-Kenny

Practices on hold

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:40:28 -0700

Due to some unforeseen problems, all practices for all teams are on hold until further notice.

The board is looking into this and will let all of you know when practices may resume as soon as possible.

2009 Practice Shirt Order

Jessica N Lee — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:16:41 -0700

After a long wait, we can finally take orders for practice shirts. The design reflects all the HPC workouts that we have endured throughout the year. The back will have the LARD patch and the list of sponsors who help make this shirt possible. Much thanks to Leon for all tons of hours that he spent designing this wonderful shirt.

Final shirt cost is not set yet (waiting for final quote from printer). For all members, shirts will be no more than $20/ea. If you have not paid your membership yet, the shirt price could be a bit more. Shirt options are the same as last time: short sleeve, long sleeve, sleeveless (tank for women).

Please send Jessica
Your name.
Qty of each shirt type you want
Size

2009 Long Beach Dragon Boat Results

Kenny H Kim — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:06:07 -0700

The results for last weekend's tournament have been released.

Race Results from LAdragonboat.com

Lake Gregory Race

Kenny H Kim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:08:00 -0700

Some articles and additional info for those of you who have never been to Lake Gregory.

This is their 3rd annual race!

Lake Gregory Race official info

Inside So-Cal press release

Rim of the world press release

Free press news release

Latest changes

Kenny H Kim — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:16:31 -0700

Some recent changes you might want to check out.

- We now have a twitter feed on the left side of the homepage.
- You can now upload a mugshot of yourself.
- Media pages are updated regularly
- News posts (such as these) can be made by any member of the team.
- Officers: accounts and attendance is now 100% operational.
- Officers: Calendar is 90% up. The repeating events works but isn't intuitive yet (working on that). Individual events are 100% - working. Please fill out the calendar data please.

We are working on schedule to get the site 100% operational. Please let us know if there are any problems, comments or questions.

Thank you,

Eddy and Kenny

Welcome to the LARD Website 7.1

Kenny H Kim — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:48:59 -0700

We've gone through a major overhaul of the website. New graphics. New layout. New features.

Most of what we had before is functioning again. Some new features that members will want to keep track of. My Account will track any and all charges to your membership. The site automatically tracks whether you are an active member or not by payment of dues. The site also tracks Checklist items. These include waivers and liability forms for the team and each race. Please make sure that your accounts are up to date.

The site is brand spanking new as of July 28 so if there are problems please use the Contact Arrow link at the bottom right of every page.

Thanks,

Eddy and Kenny