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for meets. The drills help with timing, coordination,
strength and stamina, all of which are useful for the
different types of races they may enter at a competition
or festival.
"You could go to a festival virtually every weekend, if
you wanted to," Printz said. "We probably choose one a
month or maybe one every other month and we'll do local
festivals in Hernando, Tavares, Clermont, Mount Dora,
Tampa, Jacksonville - there's so many to choose from.
We'll do, in a season, probably about 8 to 10 festivals."
Ness and others on the team have dozens of medals
from previous competitions hanging in their homes, and
they enjoy traveling around Central Florida to festivals
- though they stress it is not all about winning.
"It's not that we want to race at all expenses and
win," Printz said. "It's really sort of we race, we work
hard, we do well and we win our fair share. It's pretty
rewarding. It helps to win, but it's not about winning
- it's about working hard, practicing hard and then
doing well as a group of about an average age of 68 or
even older."
The Silver Dragons currently has 47 men and
women on the team ranging in age from 54 to 79,
and they consider it a mark of pride when they can
hold their own against dragon boat teams that are
sometimes less than half their age.
"We'll go up against teams in a race that are probably in their mid-30s," Printz laughed. "And to stay with
them and even beat them? It's pretty rewarding. We
have fun."
At drAgon
boAt events,
they usuAlly
hAve buddhist
monks come
down And
ActuAlly bless
the drAgon
boAts.
- Joe Nitto
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