Eric Cham

Dragon Boat Nicknames:

Chumms

Occupation:

Marketing Specialist/ Office Manager (Construction)

Country of Birth:

Malaysia

When was my first Dragon Boat Experience:

2015 June, an invitation by a friend through Tinder meet.

Did I participate in Dragon Boat elsewhere, prior to joining a DBV club?

Never thought of paddling with a dragon boat team.

How I found out about Dragon Boat:

Second Tinder date and she extended the invitation to come for the try-out. Never look back since.  

My current Dragon Boat club:

CYSM Sea Dragons Dragon Boat Club

Something that my club doesn’t already know about me?

Once have collected about 180 or more film cameras before Dragon Boat took over my obsessions. 

Type of music I listen to.

Mostly anime Jpop music during work out. 

My favourite seat row(s) or Drummer, Sweep

Bench 1 or 10

Personal paddling achievements:

Two Auroras campaigns (2018,2019), DBV State Team (2017-2019), Down Under Dogs Australia, and State and National Titles with the CYSM Sea Dragons

My memorable paddling moments:

2018 Auroras Campaign in Foshan for Asians Championships, 2018 Down Under Dogs Australia Campaign in Vancouver Canada, 2016 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival with the CYSM Sea Dragons Team and my first Auschamp experience with the team in Albury 2017.

Sports I did before I become a Dragon Boat member:

Aggressing inline skating, Co-founded and run FilmeNeverDie.com (a Film and Polaroid shop in Melbourne).

My favourite quote for Dragon Boating:

"Keep calm and paddle on" This quote helped me to stay control and focus during my first 2 km sweep race.

If I could choose one superpower what would it be and why?

Doctor Strange's power. Get the Time Stone and time travel back 2018 to warn the world try not to screw up for the year 2020.

My words of advice for new comers?

Just enjoy the sport and companionship. You at least got to try racing once during the regatta to get the sense of "Achievement" with the team.

How would I promote Dragon Boat to my best buddy?

266 Dragon Boat videos and still counting on my Vimeo, Most of them already know that I EAT, SLEEP, WORK, PADDLE, and REPEAT.

My future expectation about this sport:

To grow the Dragon Boat culture and to be one of the events for the Commonwealth Games!

Significant photos of Dragon Boating.

2019 State Titles with the CYSM Sea Dragons Opens Team

2018 Vancouver Tour with the Down Under Dogs Crew (a composite of Dragon Boat crew around the World)

2018 - My first National Campaign in Foshan, China.