A “dragonboater” once wrote a letter to SDBA and complained that it made no sense to go rowing every Sunday.
"I've gone for 20 years now" he wrote "and in that time I have done something like 2,000 hours of rowing. But for the life of me, I can't remember one single technique of them. So I think I'm wasting time and the coaches are wasting theirs by training us at all."
This started a real controversy in the "forum" column, much to the delight of the non-committal rowers...
It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 22,000 meals, but for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.
But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone for dragonboat trainings, I would be less fit and competitive and have lesser friends than today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing.... Dragonboat training can bring you UP to something! It helps you see the invisible, believe the incredible and receive the impossible!
Thanks dragon boat for our physical AND mental nourishment!
By Coach (Kim Hwa)
1 comment:
Very insightful. Another proof to show that there is always a need to look beyond the things that we do.
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