Team Building  - have a go dragon boating!

CanSurvive can offer you and your staff an opportunity to paddle a dragon boat not only as a new physical skill and lots of fun but to develop and come together as a team.

Dragon Boating requires

• listening to each other
• clear communication
• co-ordination and timing to work together
• a shared sense of purpose.

All participants enjoy the fun and sense of achievement of reaching a goal together while testing and increasing their physical well-being.

We will provide everything you need:

• the expertise and on-board coaching
• the dragon boats
• all on-board equipment (paddles and life-jackets)
• paddling tuition and full safety briefing
• warm-up and stretching exercises
• experienced on-board sweeps
• experienced paddlers as 'training buddies'
• rescue safety boat and crew following
• optional race against CanSurvive team to gauge how well you have done!

Sessions are 2 hours. Please get in touch with any questions or for a quote contact Rose on [email protected]

Invictus Endeavour - October 2022

We were delighted to host an Invictus Endeavour activity in October 2022. Dragon boating was part of the “Land, Sea and Air Endeavour” where members of the New Zealand Invictus community came together to do adventure and sporting challenges. Invictus members are serving or previously serving members of the armed forces who have been wounded, injured or sick while serving.

None of the Invictus members or their families had been on a dragon boat before. With our CanSurvive Club members they did some fun activities to get the boat moving under the guidance of sweep Ewen and had lots of laughs. The weather was spectacular (as always!!!!) and meant they got to view Wellington from various parts of the harbour. They did really well and became super competitive in the boat tug of war at the end!

It was a great opportunity for our club members to mix with the Invictus team and learn about their experiences. It was also a fundraising opportunity for the club. We thank them and wish them well with their individual recoveries and, for some, their participation in the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf 2023.