This Week In Buzz

12 January 2025

Buzz,

Season Start

It was a glorious day on the water at Deep Water Bay yesterday to start the 2026 season. Great to see all of you out in the boat hitting those drills - we'll be well and truly ready once race season comes!

Open Day on Sunday 18th

As is customary at the start of the season, we're putting on an Open Day to encourage new paddlers (and some old paddlers!) to join the team. It will run at the same time we have our normal training session at Deep Water Bay.

Please share the instagram post with anyone you think might be interested in joining, and/or this sign-up link: https://forms.gle/LcPoJLuGd18aZzNi9

Clarifying Expectations

There's been a little confusion around expectations of members this year. so let me try to clarify.

Firstly, it has been asked if we expect high attendance in the second half of the year, now that membership fees cover the whole year. In short - no. The season will still comprise of the first half of the year (summer season) when most races are held, and the second half of the year (winter season) when there are fewer training sessions and races. The only real difference from last year is that if you want to keep training in the second half of the year, there won't be any extra membership fee to do so.

Secondly, some people were asking about attendance levels, concerned they wouldn't reach expected levels. Of course we'd like everyone to turn up to training as much as possible, but we understand that life gets in the way and sometimes work and family need to be prioritised above training sessions. We just ask you do the best you can, not hit a minimum attendance level.

Like anything else in the team, you can always talk to your captains about these things, or other stuff you're unsure of or want to bring up. Your captains are there to motivate you, but also listen to you, and have your best interests at heart.

Fishy Dinners

There are some fishy dinners coming up:

• 16 Jan: Healthy Dragon 10th Anniversary

• 24 Jan Tung Hing Fishy Dinner

• 30 Jan: Stanley Fishy Dinner

It's important we turn up and be part of the fishy community, so do please come along to one or two if you can. Please sign up on TeamApp.

Important Dates

Date	Type	What's On
Fri, 16 Jan	Social	Healthy Dragon Fishy Dinner
Sun, 18 Jan	Open Day	Open Day
Thu, 22 Jan	Training	Town Hall
Sat, 24 Jan	Social	Tung Hing Fishy Dinner
Fri, 30 Jan	Social	Stanley Fishy Dinner

See you out on the boat!

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Willy