Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

The 4*/canoe safety qualification sounds reasonable in principle but I presume we're not suggesting all of our current Div 1 paddlers have to go and get the test? Personally I'm quite happy with my level of river craft for competing at Div 1 and I have a sum total of zero bits of paper to prove so....

I've replied more in full to Nick by email, but to add to this. If some events won't have time for a third run how are they supposed to get team events in? OK there are 3 on the water at once, but bigger start gaps are required and two runs each. We don't want slaloms going back to a full weekend a...

The jump from Div 2 to Div 1 is nothing new, I first started paddling slalom in 93 and it was the same then. You go from free practise on flater water to not much practise on harder water. Jump from best 3 to best 5 etc etc. There's a hard line there and has been for many years. How to solve it is ...

Start gaps are a fine balance. On one hand you don't want competitors who are doing their best being caught up, on the other you don't want to be finishing under the floodlights, particularly when as on Sunday you have over 320 runs to get in during the day. I think the starters both on the bank an...

Two paddlers wer J14 correctly on the Saturday at Matlock, & then back to J12's the day after!!! That was my fault as these only got corrected on one set of entries when the DOBs on the card were checked - they got corrected first thing yesterday when I remembered. There were actually only 3 compet...

Yes Div 1's have a practice run but it's useful to see people do the course before the practice run for all the same reasons. If you're a low number div 1 then you get an advantage by the fact you'll see some of the pitfalls of the course you can't see from the bank before your practice run (water ...

But if Div 1's are forerunners for Prem then who does the forerunning for the Div 1's? Anybody who gets to see somebody else of reasonable standard running the course gets an advantage - whether it's part of the challenge to do it without or not. Lower bib numbers therefore get an advantage, but ma...

I think also that there's a chicken and egg situation. Manufacturers make robust boats BECAUSE of the weight rule. If you took the rule away at international level then manufacturers would jump to it the same as when the length was reduced and we'd have lots of paper thin boats - exactly the reason...

I agree we don't want to lose organisers, but on the other hand lessons learnt in the IT age can be shared between clubs to bring other clubs up to speed. I'd say it's a mix of providing facilities for clubs to help them, and people being willing to share experiences. Whether those facilities are p...

Yep. Could have easily put an SAE in if I knew the details weren't going to be on the web. Murphy's law dictates that if I had put one in the details would be up and it would be a waste of time for the organisers.. Could somebody who's got a start list or one of the organisers simply put up a rough...