You know dragonboating is a damn serious business when every team starts buying their own boats. Cost of boats range in the tens of thousands range depending if you wanna get yours from China or Germany. The newer boats these days are half lighter than the old fiber-glass boats. Even so, the amount of effort required to move those giant-ass babies is enough for a pre/post-training workout.
Where to stand to lift it up, which way to walk, which direction to launch the boat into the water, which way to flip the boat over, where to place the tyres for the boat to rest on, all requires the team to be highly coordinated in order to move the boat from one location to another quickly and efficently. Evidently the art of boat moving is something that requires skill, precision and a whole lot of practice. *Bleh*... If not it'd just end up as a mass of people each giving their own commands and everyone moving in different directions.
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