Name: Will “Metro” Wan Position: Powerhouse Left Committee Position: Social and Vice Captain 2008-2009 Generation: One No of Seasons with the Pandas: Three Pandas Races: Four Bewl Water 2008, 2010 London Rotary 2011 Windsor 2011 Willyboy “Metro” Wan started as an original G1 Panda back in 2008 where he gained his dragon boating skills as Read more about Panda Profile: Will “Metro” Wan[…]
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Written Jez “Jokey-Jokemaker” Cheung The Windy Pandas have announced the categories for this year’s Awards Ceremony. While the team decides the winners this year, I will reminiscent about the previous Awards Ceremony. The first Panda Awards was held in November 2009 and has been a permanent fixture in the Panda’s calender ever since. It was Read more about Windy Panda Awards 2011 – The Build Up[…]
Written by Jez “Jokey-Jokemaker” Cheung With the upcoming Windsor event coming up, the Windy Pandas are drawing to a close to their 2011 season. It is also the first time we are planning to enter two teams to an event; a boys team in the Open category and a girls team in the Women’s category. Read more about Captain’s Notes: Pre-Windsor Build Up[…]
On Sunday 31st July 2011, the Windy Pandas went to the seaside resort of Worthing to take part in their second Dragon Boating charity event in the UK. Twenty Three teams were here all wanting to have fun and do well, just like us. Prior to this event, we had already raised £300 for their Read more about Worthing Charity Event[…]
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Written by Jez “Jokey-Jokemaker” Cheung Here at the Pandas camp, the team have been busy compiling a list of A-Z must know words. This week, we are going to start with the letter A.. Aerodynamic Panda Hats Essential part of the Panda uniform and modern society fashion. This represents us symbolically and often scares the Read more about The Definitive A – Z of the Windy Pandas – A[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by Jez “Jokey-Jokemaker” Cheung Row Two If the first row, i.e. the pacing row is important, then some would argue row two is just as important. Their role is to protect the pacers, ensure the timing is absolutely perfect and assist the pacers. Further to this, row two’s paddling skills must Read more about Row Two: Ollie “Nutty Nutz” Tsui[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by “Jokey Joke-maker” Cheung The position of pacer is where you sit at the front of the boat and dictate the ‘pace’ of the strokes. There are two pacers, the left and right and normally a ‘lead pacer’ which takes charge in leading the pace and the other pacer follows. Some would argue Read more about Pacer: Meme “Royal Flush” Ly[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by “Jokey Joke-maker” Cheung The position of pacer is where you sit at the front of the boat and dictate the ‘pace’ of the strokes. There are two pacers, the left and right and normally a ‘lead pacer’ which takes charge in leading the pace and the other pacer follows. Some would argue Read more about Pacer: Cain “Jon Lin” Voong[…]
On a sunny Saturday, the Pandas organised a photoshoot to celebrate their Silver Plate Merit trophy they earnt in Stanley. The trophy is worth a lot of sweat, tears and blood. The Windy Pandas are very proud to have come back with a trophy to show for their efforts. Well done everyone! Here are the Read more about Post Stanley Photoshoot[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by “Jokey Joke-maker” Cheung The position of the drummer is often considered as the least important and the person who simply hits the drum. Here at the Windy Pandas, we consider it to be one of the most important positions on the boat. A drummer often can see the entire boat, a position Read more about Drummer: Lily “The Drummer” Chan[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by “Jokey Joke-maker” Cheung The position of the drummer is often considered as the least important and the person who simply hits the drum. Here at the Windy Pandas, we consider it to be one of the most important positions on the boat. A drummer often can see the entire boat, a position Read more about Drummer: Fiona “Out of Time” Hoang[…]
Captains Logbook, Written by “Jokey Joke-maker” CheungThe position of the drummer is often considered as the least important and the person who simply hits the drum. Here at the Windy Pandas, we consider it to be one of the most important positions on the boat. A drummer often can see the entire boat, a position only Read more about Drummer: Ting “Pouting At” Yau[…]
Stanley, Hong Kong – 6th June 2011 – written by Stephanie ‘Judas’ Ng http://www.youtube.com/user/windypandas After Saturday’s strenuous training session at Stanley – “Hong Kong style”, complete with 60 year old traditional fisher woman as our helm, I felt quietly confident that the Windy Panda paddlers would do themselves proud once again. As the only team Read more about Stanley International Dragon Boat Championships 2011[…]
One of the Panda traits required to join the team, is the need to “act natural” in front of the cameras. The team did not need any encouragement once my Canon 550D was on show. I recall seeing the team smiling and in good spirits before a training session, unusual! As I shepherd the guys Read more about Pre-Hong Kong Photoshoot[…]
At the start of the season, every new member of the Windy Pandas will need to go through an ‘initiation’ and this year is no different. The idea behind this is to give the new faces something to think about and the existing crew, exclusivity. They need to do something to be accepted in the Read more about Newbie Initiation – March 2011[…]
It’s been asked many times the secret of the Pandas success. Here at the Official Panda website, we shall reveal to you some exclusives as to why we do so well on and off the boat! The secret is…our sporting attire. Any Panda can only go to battle on the water when armed with the Read more about Top Secret – Pandas Sporting Armour[…]