Chattanooga Dragon Boat Club

🚣 Did You Know?

Dragon boating dates back more than 2,000 years to ancient China, where it began as part of the annual Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival.

According to tradition, the festival honors Qu Yuan, a respected poet and government official who lived around 278 BC. After being exiled from his kingdom, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River in protest of government corruption.

Legend says the local villagers rushed out in their fishing boats to try to save him. They beat drums to scare away fish and evil spirits, splashed the water with their paddles, and tossed balls of sticky rice into the river so the fish would eat the rice instead of Qu Yuan’s body.

Over time, those rescue efforts evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival, and eventually into the sport of dragon boating enjoyed around the world today.

Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still celebrated every year in many countries, and dragon boating has grown into one of the world’s fastest-growing team sports.

Interested in giving it a try? We’d love to have you on the water with us! Fill out the interest form in our bio to learn more.

🐉 Stay tuned for our next Did You Know? post!

 Practice is canceled tonight due to weather.

Practice is canceled this morning due to weather. See you all Tuesday!

Another hot Tuesday on the water. ☀️

We started practice with a team safety briefing led by Cindy Kelley before heading out—a great reminder that safety always comes first. Thank you, Cindy, for taking the time to review important safety procedures with the team.

Thanks to everyone who came out and battled the heat with us. Great work, team! 💙

🚨 **Practice Update** 🚨

There will be **no practice tomorrow (Saturday, June 27)** as several of our members will be attending the **Mekong Dragon Boat Camp** to continue developing their paddling skills.

We're excited to share that **six members of the Chattanooga Dragon Boat Club** will be representing our team at camp this weekend! We're proud of their commitment to learning and growing, and we can't wait for them to bring new knowledge back to the team.

Join us in wishing them good luck as they fine-tune their dragon boat skills! 🐉💙

Last week, we had some ladies from Tellico Heat come out and practice with us, and it was so much fun! We love the community that dragon boating creates and getting to connect with paddlers from other teams.

Thank you, Donna Dee and Jodi, for coming out to paddle with us! We loved having you all. 🐉

We had the best time in Montgomery this past weekend! Can’t wait until next year😁

Team picture day. 💙🚣‍♀️

5 DAYS OUT!

The countdown is on! In just 5 days, the Chattanooga Dragon Boat Club will be heading to Montgomery, Alabama to kick off another exciting race weekend.

Our team has been putting in the work on the water, and we're ready to represent Chattanooga at the Montgomery Dragon Boat Festival. We can't wait to race, make memories, and spend the day with the incredible dragon boat community.

Wish our paddlers luck as we prepare for race day! 💚💙

Interested in joining us? Fill out our interest form in our bio and come see what dragon boating is all about.

PICTURE DAY! Hey everyone! We are wanting to get a team picture with everyone in their blue CDBC shirts. If everyone could please wear their shirts to practice tomorrow (6/9)so we can get a group picture that would be great!💙