Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

The plans being criticised by others are old ones (inaccurate at that!) from approx 2 years ago that were abandoned - not the present ones only that were only released yesterday following a feasability study that has now been completed draft plans have been released. It would have been pointless to...

There was some money set aside over the last few years with the aim of replacing the BBC - this has now been done and the new system has been tested running along side the old system and trialed at various events - it is going very well thanks to a dedicated team. At the present moment we are not l...

Yes a meeting did take place a couple of years ago but no one at that meeting was willing to take it on and move it forward. Following the recent meeting that wasn't the case - we had 4 volunteers so lets move forward on that and get England well and truly on the map. A huge thanks from me to those...

There is certainly no plan for the slalom committee to go back to 9 div 1's, or to reduce significantly more at present but we need to at least maintain the status quo - therefore increasing doubles will mean possibly loosing venues to achieve that. The idea put forward re Washburn I feel is a good...

Congratulations to Dave Florence C1M, Tim & Eienne C2 and Jacqueline Shaw C1W on their bronze medals as the Pre Worlds in Seu. It was great that we were able to have a C1W represent GB, only 3 countries managed this - special congratulations to Jacqueline - I hope she enjoyed the experience and tha...

Congratulations to Tom Brady on his silver medal yesterday - ony 0.21sec behind Gold. A greast race and well deserved. Also worthy of congratulations, Clair Kimberley K1W and Davies & Lister C2 for making the final a great achievement, particularly as Rhys & Matthew who only stepped in as reserve a...

I would tend to agree with Dave on the numbers of Div 1's. As he states when slalom was in it's hayday there were only 9 and the only double was in Tully. The other races were weekend events having teams (very competative) on the Sat which acted as practice runs, as well as an official practice run...

I am not sure dropping section judges from Div 1's is a good idea. Particularly if there are more double events and judging is a problem - at least you are getting good quality judging and consisitency. There has to be some compromise - more doble events will mean judging stints for paddler, or rep...

If we did away with Vets status could there possibly be some way of protecing divisional status for vets if requested? They could be registered as VP so everyone knows. I feel there would have to be restrictions on prizes once reached promotion points and not used for points calculations if they wi...