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6 Man Outrigger Sprint Clinic with Don Irvine
October 29, 2016 @ 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The clinic will be a 6 – hour water based clinic with some classroom time and video discussion. It will include crew selection, crew set up, steering, starts and turns. Discussion will include technique, race format/progression, racing in lanes, paddle selection and racing down. There will be opportunity to ask questions.
Don Irvine – has competed at national levels in Canada in marathon canoe racing. He has also competed successfully at international levels in whitewater kayaking, sprint kayaking, sprint and long distance outrigger canoeing (OC-1 & OC-6), and dragon boat racing. Paddling career highlights for Don include competing in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in sprint kayaking, and winning a silver medal in the 1992 IVF World Outrigger Sprints in the open men’s V1 category (to this day, this is the best ever finish in this division by a non-Tahitian).He has coached literally hundreds of paddlers in his distinguished career including the first ever Canadian Women’s Dragon Boat crew to win the World Dragonboat Championships in Hong Kong.