A crew of dragon boat racers aren’t letting just a little frozen water stop them from working towards.
The Manitoba Dragon Boat Group, which additionally competes for Group Canada, is practising its sport on ice after seeing nations like China proceed to coach year-round.
Jerome Seremak, the coach of the crew, instructed CTV Information that they connect skates to the underside of the boat to allow them to proceed to practise their approach whereas the water of Winnipeg’s River Path is frozen.
“We’ve just a little cradle, we put them on, tie them with straps and away she goes,” he mentioned.
The crew practises this manner at the very least thrice per week, skating their boat as much as 10 kilometres. It’s all in an effort to maintain the athletes in form for hotter climate.
Practising has develop into essential train for the crew, with lots of their competitions cancelled as a result of pandemic and the world’s largest ice dragon boat pageant in Ottawa going digital later this month.
Whereas ice might not cease the crew, the acute chilly would possibly. With temperatures dipping under -30 C some days after the solar goes down, the crew often has to pack it in earlier than dusk.
