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However I think you will find that when Sport England pulled out of HPP it was offered to the BCU, who turned it down

That might be true if, as you imply, the paddlers who come up to Div 1 are not as good as the paddlers who are already there. But the evidence contradicts that: there is an overlap of c. 30%. The paddle-up rules require a paddler to beat 40% of the division they are trying to get into three times in...

When a parent takes little Johnny along to Nottingham Athletics Club at Harvey Hadden Stadium they are given two A4 sheets to fill in. One is for all little Johnny's details. On the other, the top third is for the parents, contact details. The middle third has lots of boxes: 'tick here if you are pr...

The Divisional Structure When people write about things being wrong with the Divisional structure, they mean, by and large, that there are too many entrants for Div 1 races; and conclude that that must be a result of there being too many paddlers in Div 1, as a result of excessive promotion (usually...

This thread was launched a week ago with the title 'restructuring the divisions'. However it is rapidly being taken over by contributors who feel that the problem is young paddlers getting onto rough water too fast, going up the divisions too fast, etc: not the same thing at all. And now there is th...

When HPP was handed back by Sport England to Notts County Council a few years back, NCC mounted a consultation. Three possibilities were suggested: all involved spending millions on new equipment and facilities, and recovering the cost by charging for use. Among the consultees was Gedling Borough Co...

Steve

Am I misunderstanding? Or is the information you want not in the usual place down the left-hand side of the front page of the website?

Most of this people are just sighing about and saying 'OK if we have to'. 'The bit that is causing puzzlement/irritation on the river bank is the bit about the Club's trained safety officer having to be on the bank for the duration of the event; and Peter does not address this in his response. Was t...

Peter

I suspect that it would help organisers, particularly those of lower division events who have relatively limited contact with the sport as a whole, if you were to publish a list of qualified Event Safety Officers, ideally with their contact details

I am not Dee, but ...

All their email addresses are in the Slalom Yearbook pp 12 - 17; and their job titles on p 6

Quite Right, Silver Surfer: time for another reminder. From my starter post: "Try this one: the problem is that there are more people who want to race, and are capable of racing, on rough water (say, the Washburn upwards) than there are race slots available for the number of races they want to do. I...

Sorry, but almost all of these responses illustrate the reason I quoted for opening this thread Everyone is talking about detailed answers without committing themselves on what the problem is, or which side of the basic yes/no question they are on Could responders at least declare which side they ar...

Neil

You are of course right: Deep Throat was the insider source in the Watergate affair

The Mega- Computer Deep Throat took 7 million years to calculate that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. However it was not large enough to be capable of saying what the Question was … that required a much bigger computer to be built. Slalom, particularly in relation to what is h...

Duncan may be out of date: it is already happening: Association for Physical Education (13 March 2015) National Sun Awareness Survey for Outdoor Activity Leaders The Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code is the first sun protection initiative for those who work outdoors with children. Launched in 2014, it is...