Services

Water’s Edge provides a number of different paddling development programs for you and your team.

Custom Clinics

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    Stroke Improvement Clinics

    Description: The building blocks to an efficient and effective paddle stroke include such elements as paddle entry and recovery. This six-hour session will dismantle the mystique of the paddle stroke and provide participants with a strong foundation for stroke mechanics. The morning begins with a dry-land session on stroke technique followed by an on-water session, [...]

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    Dragon Boat Steering Courses

    Description: The role of the steersperson is to ensure the safety of the crew in the boat, therefore is a crucial position that requires confidence and skill. This introductory steersperson clinic will cover the skills necessary to confidently steer a dragon boat safely in practice and race situations. The course will introduce various tools and [...]

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    Dragon Boat Coaching Level I

    Description: Dragon Boating has evolved into a popular sport with mass appeal to a broad cross-section of society. As a result of the diversity of participants, teams will require a variety of coaching approaches. This instructional course is designed to provide coaches with the necessary tools to instruct paddlers effectively and safely. Enrollment in this [...]

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    Coaches’ Critical Eye

    Description: Coaches’ Critical Eye is a four-hour coaching clinic that will give coaches the tools and methodology they need to instruct efficiently and effectively. Participants will gain an understanding of the difference between cause and effect in the paddle stroke. Through a combination of on-water instruction and video analysis, coaches will learn how to develop [...]

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    Coaches Critical Eye II

    This three hour session builds on Coaches’ Critical Eye I. Coaches’ Critical Eye II Coaching is about problem solving and working together with an athlete to create a solution. Each athlete has different technical and physical needs. It is our job as coaches to: Fine-tune our eye to get to the root of the problem [...]

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    Drum and Steering Communication

    Description: A Dragon Boat Team consists of twenty individuals who play a unique role and have different needs and wants. This can be a very challenging experience for the drummer and steersperson who play a vital role in building a cohesive team. This session will address the importance of communication between the drummer and steersperson. [...]

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    Team Blending

    This clinic is designed for those teams or individuals intent on pushing the limits both personally and collectively to achieve their highest potential. Blending the individual techniques of paddlers in a boat in an effort to create a cohesive team unit can be one of the most challenging tasks for a coach to perform. Through [...]

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    Outrigger Steering Courses

    Description: These courses focus on Open Water and Regatta/Sprint Steering. The individual in the steering position assumes a large degree of responsibility over the performance of the boat. It is s/he who is required to set a course of navigation, as well as, be responsible for motivating the crew. This position requires a diverse skill [...]

Dragon Boat Rental

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    Water’s Edge Introduces its New Dragon Boat Rental Fleet

    Water’s Edge strives for excellence in the services we offer the paddle sport community, and to continue that tradition we have recently purchased a fleet of new BUK Dragon Boats. The boats are a strategic addition to the company’s innovative line of paddle sport coaching and race event services. A light and fast boat, BUK [...]

Event Management

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    Dragon Boat Event Management

    The Water’s Edge Team specializes in organizing and producing high quality paddle sport events. In organizing dragon boat festivals and regattas, it is a priority of the Water’s Edge Team to ensure the safety of all participants, that races are fair and run in a timely manner and that all teams whether recreational or competitive [...]

Team Building

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    Team Building

    Corporate dragon boat team building events are an exciting way to motivate and build camaraderie amongst staff from all areas of a company. Our dragon boat events are extremely effective in helping participants to learn the key elements of a successful team and to promote team-centric thinking. All of our sessions include dry-land instruction, on-water [...]

Team Development

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    Experiential Team Development

    Our experiential dragon boat sessions are designed to help participants learn the key elements of successful team in sport and transfer that knowledge to the workplace. Participants will be exposed to experiential team exercises that confirm the value of the individual while imprinting the indispensability of the team in goal accomplishment. Water’s Edge provides a [...]