In the early morning of 3rd and 4th August, the dragon boat team members continued their intensive practice in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York. Comparing with the first practice, the team members significantly made an improvement on their skills. They started to get in hands with the rowing skills that might be involved in different stages of the race.
In that morning, all of the team members sweat very hard due to the sunny weather. Yet their passion remained to be enthusiastically high. After the two practices, they already got in hold of the wind movement and learnt how they should turn it as their opportunity. Team members were trained with the paddling skills when coming across with headwind, downwind and crosswind situations. At the same time, paddlers learnt how they can retain their energy to keep them going till the finishing line of the race.
"Though it was quite tough for the two-hour training, it was so nice to have dragon-boat rowing in such beautiful scenery." Benjamin (Hongze Li), one of the dragon boat team leaders said. Tim (Chenghuai Zheng), another team leader also expressed excitement towards the event.
During the practice, the dragon boat team members started friendly matches with other teams at the end of their practice. And the paddlers still managed to move the boat forward even though they had half the amount compared to opponent team.
"We all believe that we will surely rock the other teams away in the coming match on August 10th!" all team members unanimously yelled.
