Monday, 22 May 2017

Dragon Boat Race

Assalamualaikum, Rise n Peeps Guys!

Hey guys, we meet again! In this entry I would to share with you guys about the Dragon Boat Race competition which was held at Pantai Klebang (nearby to Coconut Shake Original Klebang) on last Sunday. Since ALAM is one of the well-known team in this sport, for sure lah we registered our team as one of the participants. ALAM participated in both categories; Open Category and Close Category which is for the Open Category ALAM was represented by ALAM A and ALAM B (my team 😈) and for the Close Category ALAM registered with 3 teams ALAM A, ALAM B and ALAM C.




I would say Open Category was tougher than Close Category since there were 28 teams participated including teams from Kuala Lumpur, Pinang Paddlers Club (PIPC) and even from Singapore! Their paddlers are well-built (muscular?) as compared to our team. By right, ALAM is not at the same level with them. Hmm let’s see how.



First heat for both categories showed that ALAM’s team won almost every race which allowed all 5 teams to enter Quarter Final! What a great team work from the team members, I would say all paddlers even from ALAM C gave their best shot yesterday.
And one of the shocking moments is when ALAM C won the Quarter Final race with a big gap from the 2nd place team (if I’m not mistaken, UTeM Stingrayz)! And they even finished the race as 7th placing team out of 24 teams overall!






Semi Final

Unluckily, my team ALAM B was voted to race in a continuous race which means right after Semi Final in Close Category, we need to race again for Open Category! In Close Category, ALAM B was voted to race together with ALAM A, MMU Paddlers and MADA team. Due to some unexpected incident, ALAM A and ALAM B were both kicked out from the match as we finished the race as 3rd and 4th placing. Since ALAM B had to proceed to another Semi-Final (Open Category), we proceed again to the starting line. And our competitor this time is RMP (Royal Marine Police) and MADA team.  As we already out of energy, again we had to accept that the other 2 boats were too fast for us. Straight away ALAM B was placed as 5th place.



What is there to be sad about? Come on guys we still managed to be in the top 5 in Open Category! We even beat the Singaporeans, PIPC and our dulu-kini-dan-selamanya rival MMU team and UTeM Stingrayz. What a great day for us as Cyclone Breakers as if we look into body aspect, training, and facility we are far behind them yet still we managed to put ourselves as one of the great team in Dragon Boat Race.









Personally I really love Cyclone Break as I will still put my passion into this team even after I graduated from ALAM. 

This is our house, this is our family and this is Cyclone Break!


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