Setting New Year’s resolutions for: growing your fitness?, making new friends?, doing something new, different and FUN?
Come along to one of our trainings and see if dragon boating is for you! We will supply you with a life-jacket and paddle, all you need is clothing suitable to exercise in on the water and footwear you don’t mind getting wet.
What you get out of joining the team:
- Living an active life and growing your personal fitness, doing research backed exercise proven to support quality of life post breast cancer treatment and to minimalize the occurrence and effects of lymphedema,
- Being part of a competitive team sport – even those who have come to us as ‘non-competitive’ soon realize they are.
- FUN! We paddle hard but enjoy laughing along the way!
- Provided with uniform, life-jacket, and paddle for team training events,
- Making friends and growing a support network who have all been through their own breast cancer journeys,
- Having opportunities to share awareness of breast cancer within the wider community, inspiring other survivors to live an active, full life post treatment.
“Moving to Auckland August 2021 just in time for lockdown, then receiving a BC diagnosis December 2021, tipped my dreams and plans upside down. During my treatment in 2022 I saw something pop up about dragon boating, which I thought sounded like fun, and later in the year I went along to a ‘Give it a Go Day’. I had to wait to participate fully to get past the 6-month treatment mark but I have been warmly welcomed into the BWL team. It has helped me meet people – an amazing, supportive bunch of women, and become a part of a community. It gave me direction at a time when everything else seemed out of sorts. It was a focus and a reason to get out of the house while helping me to regain fitness following treatment. It feels amazing to feel so strong, and to work together with other women who have all been through their own BC journeys to show the world that having had BC does not mean you can’t be fit, strong and competitive.” Katherine
If you’re interested in having a go, email us at infobwl96@gmail.com. www.bustingwithlife.org.nz.
