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- Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:28 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Year Books are on their way!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4325
Re: Year Books are on their way!
How can a non-ranked person get hold of one ?
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:30 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Real beginner questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3473
Re: Real beginner questions
It would be a good idea to join a club with some slalom pedigree. I'm sure you are a very good paddler, but you will be surprised how much more there is to learn. They will have boats you can try, including older 4 m boats, but most people will advise you to get a 3.5. I took my time to change but w...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:21 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Olympic TV Coverage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1776
Olympic TV Coverage
It's well worth buying next week's Radio Times. It has a pull-out with full details of the TV coverage. If you have Sky, Freesat or the other one [Virgin ?], there are 24 BBC olympic channels, each of which has a HD version. The pull-out shows that we have our own channel for canoe slalom and from S...
- Thu May 17, 2012 12:54 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: David Florence in Chemistry Exam?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3054
Re: David Florence in Chemistry Exam?
Come on then - tell us why. I'm guessing the question was something to do with carbon fibres
- Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:59 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Slalom Posters Poll - Vote on your favourite Slalom Posters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6038
Did someone offer a prize for the best? I'm Spartacus ! Yes, I'll stand by that [£50]. It wasn't a random idea; I appreciate the importance of eye-catching, but informative posters because it's part of my job, sort of. These could do a good job if placed at key sites [schools, sports centres] local...
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:53 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Enhancing the Sport - Good or Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15037
I agree with Neil After observing what goes on at all levels of racing, it seems to me that until you get to the top, and are then probably at an age when you can look after yourself, you really do need parents with both the funds and the time/commitment to take you to races for many weekends of th...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:44 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: 2011 Canoe Slalom World Cup Race 4 (Final) - Live on Web
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4645
- Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:20 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Slalom posters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5457
I wondered if it could be done through this message board [as we've had yes/no type votes set up before], but I guess it might be difficult to prevent individuals from multiple voting. Anyway, to put some money where my mouth is and make my little contribution to putting something back into the spo...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:15 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Slalom posters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5457
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:20 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Div 4 to 3 promotion - help
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8277
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Its not slalom....its slalom! - Seems we don't say it properly!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5689
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Tennis Elbow Advice Please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6420
I found that a rest and the use of specialised straps recommended by a doc e.g. http://www.equipmentforsport.co.uk/products/view/384 helped with a golfers elbow. At the end of that season my paddles snapped, and when I replaced them, I went for a smaller blade and the elbow problem never returned. ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: physiology testing
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11672
can ATP be recycled into creatine when you are working at the rate where process 3 is dominant? That’s a good question Dave, probably the big question in the case of a slalom race. I should say that much of this below is fact [well; the results of research], but some is my interpretation based on r...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:28 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: physiology testing
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11672
Time for a biochemistry lesson; potted and difficult without pictures but here goes; There is only one source only of direct energy for muscle contraction [and pretty much everything else] – the chemical ATP. In the process of giving up its energy, it is converted to ADP. Energy metabolism is all a...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:48 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Ancient History
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2009
Thanks Spiderman, for uploading the material from the 1974 race [link at bottom on main www.canoeslalom page]. What a treat – that was the year that I was most heavily – if briefly - involved as a youth. Great to see the paddlers names, as you say, but also the names and pics of the old boats in th...