Start Your Own Dragon Boat Club

I was always fascinated at the thought of setting up a Dragon Boat Club. Although that is no longer sounds difficult, yet it is easy and it does require good leadership, good people and strong time management with. Here are three simple steps in the formation of a club: 1 Get a boat. The first step is to ensure that there is a dragon boat club in your area. These “clubs” are organizations or associations that run a practice location and rent dragon boats. Teams (including elite teams) do not buy their own boats, all the rents from a club. Dragon Boat clubs offer rental prices for their boats and offer services such as coaching and guidance. So be sure first that it is a club relatively close by. If you had your city every shallow water (ie lake, bay, or) slow moving waters, then there is a good chance that there is something paddling activity. The best thing to do is look in your area at Google. Keywords like “canoe” club or “Outrigger Paddle” clubs in addition to “Dragon Boat”. Remember that many places to rent canoes and dragon boats for rent. 2. Get people. After you sure that it must have a place to dragon boat, you make sure you have enough people on your team. Getting people, you can also start to money, that’s what you need to pay for that is the boat on it. the next step. (For Steps 1, 2 a.m. to 3 p.m. really go hand in hand). You need a minimum of 20 paddlers, but I suggest you to use 22 to 24 members of your team. The boat has just 20 seats, so with more than 20 members to give you some free paddlers. Spare parts are as important as regular paddlers. In general, your group of 22 persons, 2 or 3 people are not in the practice or race. This means that exactly 20 people, which are perfect. Other than paddlers, you also need a drummer and a steer person. These are the key roles, but for some reason I find it difficult to recruit people for these positions. An experienced steer person, but is always in demand. (A status is not unlike a good hockey goalie.) It pays to a person on your team and specially trained to have paid to control it. You also save a lot of money on the “Settings” control person for you. Drummers do not need on the other side, a lot of training, and do not in any practice. A “good” drummer is someone who is small, light and really loud. Drummers can be one of the paddlers at your leisure. 3. Money. Once you have enough paddlers, and have to find a place to practice, you need to get money. Money is important, because Dragon is an expensive sport. The costs are not created individually, as) it in other sports (eg hockey, where every player goes to hockey sticks, pads, buy ice skates, and tons of equipment. In Dragon, all the necessary equipment included in the price of a boat rental. But because you rent the boat “as a team”, are also the costs are charged “per team.” They also have race as a team, and therefore participation fees incurred as a team. These fees often have to be paid in advance, or in the vicinity of the front, and can be several hundred dollars. A novice team should have at least 6 training sessions before he races in one. As you can see, you add to these costs, even if they are divided among 22 people, so make sure that a dedicated team first, that these costs are allocated. There are several different revenue models in the world of dragon boat and I’ll list a few for you here. 1. Membership fees. On average, most of the team-members pay $ 150 each. This is a very reasonable amount of money for a sport, and is average for Dragon membership. (Other teams can charge $ 100 – $ 250, I’ve seen). For a 22-person team, we had a budget of $ 3,300, of which financed 8 weeks worth of practices to enter a few races, and team shirts for all. 2. Sponsorship. You will see many teams that are sponsored. There are many companies that their own team, for example, “IBM Dragon Boat Team” or “Deloitte Dragons”. I think it makes sense to ask your company, your team sponsor, even if the team does not entirely consist of company employees. Or you can go looking for sponsorship from other companies. Sponsors can give you money or “Sponsor” T-shirts or hats for you. The best sponsorship situation is when you sell, as I call it, “naming rights.” You’ll be surprised how many companies will give you several thousand dollars, just to name according to your team. Smaller companies may still carry a few hundred of their logo on the T-shirts. There is a lot of work to find a sponsor, but can pay off big and therefore hurt any financial head for later. 3. Fundraiser. Many of dragon boat teams raise funds throughout the year. Not only does this help to balance cost, but it’s also a great team building idea. There are several types of charity events that I am up and about, but here go some primary examples: * Easy-working, lower-paying. There are a number of bars and restaurants, an active sports club funds have set up joint ventures. An example of a dragon boat club, which has gone into a joint venture with a local pub that they have x-number of tickets worth a burger and a beer. They charge you $ 5 per ticket, but you can purchase the ticket for however much you want (usually $ 6 or $ 7) and put the difference to sell. The bar wins because you are bringing in customers, and win, because they make money without doing much effort. Will benefit of course with only $ 1 or $ 2, you have more than 500 tickets before it enough to sell to pay for a race. * Hard-working, pay low. I see that many teams keep Grill, especially in suburban areas. This is definitely a fun fundraiser and good for team spirit, but in any case lower than compensation. For an 8-hour grill, a team raised just under $ 400. A lot of money for one days, but when you consider there were 20 of us at work at the grill, that on average an annual salary of $ 2 50 hours book. We thought that the donation to pay only an hour, our salaries would be more than 5 times as high. (Of course, if you students $ 50/hour then 2nd) is pretty decent. * Paid hard-working, high. The most successful fundraising campaigns, I would have to sell the tickets, have a club. In general, club organizers, “you will open the door” for the early morning hours of a slow night. That means you can sell tickets in advance and collect covers of party-goers. Cover can be somewhere between $ 7 and $ 10 and you should expect that with a team of 20, you can sell 200 tickets for a club night. The payoff is therefore up to $ 2000 in one night! Of course, there are a lot of work in hectic cards, and when your case is bad, no one will ever be another. So these are the first three important steps in the formation of a Dragon Boat Team: 1 Get a dragon boat2. Get people3. Get moneyIt almost no role in what order you complete these steps, but you have these three criteria before you continue to move to something else. In future entries, I go into further details, such as budgeting, creating a strong roster and finding coaches.