Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

djberriman

Sounds good - looking forward to it!

djberriman

I too was worried about the course for Sunday, but was delighted to see the change made to gate 13 when I arrived on Sunday morning. This did make it possible to float across the looping pool and paddle up the eddy flow thru gate 13 and it was even possible to avoid the stopper altogether with a bi...

djberriman

Just bumping this up to see if anyone will be there Friday (water permitting!)

djberriman

We had no objections raised in principal to one on our outdoor pool (read man made pond!) when we raised the matter which is I believe 35mx25m but were asked to set it up and send in a photo of the course so they could get an idea of what it would be like. I'm probably going to send in a scale diag...

djberriman

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone else is thinking of going down to Bala on the Friday to do some training (provided there is water etc.). before the weekend.

Duncan

djberriman

I was under the impression you would usually get B.O.T.D. if gate judge and sector judge did not agree and you entered a protest. Sounds a bit odd for a 'half head' from your description if thats what they put down (not displacement, double entry, wrong direction etc.).

djberriman

pm'd but no response, also interested in the tuscan for one of our paddlers.

Duncan Berriman - duncan [at] dcl [dot] co [dot] uk

djberriman

Agree it was strange. I thought the top few gates a bit of a waste of time as it was easy to paddle nearly in a straight line and the poles were so high even I could shoulder drop under them. Not sure about not guiding though Nick, it was clear (and perhaps a good learning exercise) to me that you ...

djberriman

I would guess you are more likely to catch it from someone in the crowd or from surfaces in the changing room.

As HPP is moving water I would guess there is little chance of catching it from the water and any testing will be pointless for the same reason.

Life is a risk!

djberriman

Cakes perhaps I can miss the Div 1, then again, looking at my results and ranking perhaps not.

djberriman

Hmm, gate line moves with the pole not where the bar is.... generally it should be in focus.... but what about when the pole is belted on entry to the gate and swings off, you need to know where it is/has gone, if its not in picture, it proves nothing, thus on 2nd thoughts you really need one on th...

djberriman

Just subtract their year of birth from the current year - it works for Juniors too, I've already suggested it to Jim as an amendment to prevent confusion in junior classes.

2009 - 1966 = 43, thus an M40
2009 - 1964 = 45, thus an M45

works regardless of DOB (cheers Trudi and Start).

djberriman

And I'm not saying its impossible, I'm just putting forward all the problems I can forsee and the issues with the various suggestions made, being a techie myself (though not in cameras) I hope I have good insight into what the issues might be, where the idea might fail, the problems you might find ...

djberriman

There is of course one big issue...... the single (NOT) pole..... one pole in the middle of the river the other 25m away on the bank (as at Tully) So cameras on poles wouldn't work in the this case, nor on the spreader bar and even a couple of cameras on the bank may not work. Fortunately the human...

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Trouble is you have poles hanging on wires with water and the rain, you'd probably need them wireless and then what happens when one fails, breaks, runs down or drops off etc. What happens to the competitor who loses cause the pictures aren't available for whatever reason and gets beaten by another...

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