On Monday March twelfth, Hornet Watersport’s 2018 March Insanity Dragon Boat Paddle Design Match was underway!
This competitors is plenty of enjoyable for us and for all our paddling associates on the market all over the world. A few of you could be questioning why we now have we named our design contest after March Insanity. One of many causes we selected this well-liked nickname for the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation’s Division 1 basketball event is that the brackets used for arranging the 64 groups which might be chosen is a simple solution to current the 16 paddle designs in Hornet Watersports’ 2018 Sting Dragon Boat Paddle Collection. One more reason we selected to emulate this thrilling March event bracket is due to the keenness and power it at all times appears to generate. Of us of all ages consult with the NCAA competitors as “The Massive Dance” for lots of causes. It’s at all times nice to observe collegiate athletes, who work onerous for the love of the sport and don’t earn any cash for taking part. These are one of the best 18 -20 12 months outdated basketball gamers on the earth they usually compete onerous, realizing how a lot is on the road for his or her college, and the massive public publicity. Thousands and thousands of followers are glued to their TV’s hoping to win some cash of their workplace swimming pools, or watch their favourite participant attempt to show themselves for a potential future within the NBA. The recognition of basketball has grown a terrific deal in international locations like The Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, France, Brazil, the UK, Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy and India. In lots of of those similar international locations, the recognition of Dragon Boat and Hornet can be on the rise. We’ve got superb sellers within the Philippines, Indonesia, the UK, and Germany. We like to ship our paddles all around the world.
This 12 months, we now have 14 thrilling and colourful designs for our paddles in addition to two black paddles, a shiny and matte design. It is going to be very thrilling to see which designs are voted the preferred contemplating that each one of our graphic paddles designs promote very effectively. After all they’re all light-weight, high-performance, and permitted by the IDBF. Right here at Hornet Watersports, we love wholesome competitors and we at all times encourage and admire it when the paddling neighborhood will get concerned in what we’re doing. We love suggestions and we hope our paddles get plenty of votes in every spherical of our 2018 March Insanity Dragon Boat Paddle Design Match.
The highest bracket has 4 superb paddle designs, Black Flowers, God of Water, Blue Dragon and Hibiscus. Sport one options God of Water going up in opposition to Black Flowers, and this might be one for the ages. God of Water means enterprise and has some methods up its sleeve. Anybody can inform by wanting on the yellow eyes and massive fangs, Black Flowers has its work reduce out for it. Nonetheless, Black Flowers has so much to supply by the wondrous brilliant pink and delightful blue petals and beautiful round imagery. Within the second sport on this bracket, Blue Dragon goes in opposition to Hibiscus. Should you’re searching for a Cinderella story, you discovered one with the massive, trumpet-shaped hibiscus flowers. However don’t depend it out.. Do you know that within the Philippines, this flower is utilized by kids as a part of a bubble-making pastime? They crush the flowers right into a sticky juice and use hole papaya stalks to blow the bubbles. The energy of Blue Dragon is clear whenever you see the spectacular brilliant blue and inexperienced scaled, fire-breathing creature. Let’s not predict any spherical 2 matchups fairly but, as upsets have been recognized to occur.
Within the second bracket area, we’re that includes 4 extra nice designs, and I’ll deal with two of them for this weblog submit. Dragon Graffiti has bought so much going for it. You will notice an eye-popping blue and yellow creature grabbing a paddle, and it looks as if its prepared for motion within the water. That is actually one among Hornet Watersports’ most colourful choices, and in spherical one, it goes up in opposition to the traditional Black Shiny paddle. These two paddle couldn’t be a lot totally different and it ought to make for an attention-grabbing matchup. Additionally, you will see Sakura Koi Fish competing in opposition to Splash Shade. Sakura can consult with a flowering cherry tree in Japan. Sakura koi fish are sometimes a beautiful yellow or purple, and this pair of Sakura dragons are an unimaginable yellow. We’ll see how effectively Splash Shade does on this spherical 1 battle.
Within the third part of the bracket, it is possible for you to to vote on two different Dragon designs – Orange Dragon and Pink Dragon. Whether or not or not they face off within the second spherical is admittedly as much as Kaizen, which is one among Hornets most lovely and inventive designs. Kaizen is a Japanese phrase for enchancment, and normally refers to a long-term strategy to work that systematically seeks to realize small, incremental modifications in processes to be able to enhance effectivity and high quality. Hornet finds this to be a really intriguing and enormously useful thought and we attempt to incorporate it into our work tradition each day. This design options white Chinese language and Japanese characters on a black background, and black waves with whitecaps. Hornet designers are at all times on the forefront of distinctive and contemporary design concepts, and it actually reveals with this clever Kaisen paddle.
The final of the primary spherical matchups is within the 4th part of our event bracket and it contains Blue Splash taking over Koi Fish. This can be a fascinating matchup between two actually lovely paddle designs. Right here the white coy fish is swimming in purple and black waves. The blue splash is at all times a preferred design and you’ll see why with its speckles of blue and aqua, it virtually makes you need to leap into the water. The Artist Dragon rivals the intense coloration of the Dragon Graffiti paddle, nevertheless it has a multi-colored dragon in opposition to a black and white background. Contemporary will probably be good competitors in spherical one as a result of it has a really good-looking inexperienced, yellow and blue with black speckles primarily on one aspect. These colours are very soothing and go very effectively collectively. This type of coloration combos will be discovered on lots of Hornet Watersports’ paddle designs, and we stay up for seeing which of them transfer on to compete within the “Elite 8” spherical.
Something can occur in spherical one among Hornet Watersports 2018 March Insanity Dragon Boat Paddle Design Match! It’s you, the followers, who make this event interactive and enjoyable! Whichever paddle wins ultimately, you already know it is going to be lightweight, excessive efficiency, and IDBP permitted. For these of you who vote in each spherical, you can be entered right into a draw to win a free paddle with the successful design. That is our method of claiming “Thanks” for taking part in our March event. We hope you get pleasure from it as a lot as we do right here at Hornet. Good luck to all of you and have enjoyable. Spring is correct across the nook and we’re all wanting ahead to a terrific 2018 Dragon Boat season forward. In case you have any questions on any of our 16 featured designs for 2018, or any customized group designs, please contact the skilled paddle designers at Hornet and we will probably be blissful to get again to you.
