Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Dee - thats a good point and not completely clear: B3.3.1 “Paddle Up” A competitor ranked in any given division may enter compe- titions designed for the next division up (referred to below as the Host division). This is intended to enable paddlers to get experience of more challenging racing condit...

I want to paddle up in div 2 C1M at Pinkston, I kind of assumed there would be something on the entry cards to indicate this but if there is I am failing to spot it. What is the accepted way to do it? Do I just fill in the division box with host division and (PU) after, or maybe my own division with...

As the K1M's class is always chorate (I stand to be corrected if this has ever not been the case), I'm afraid you stand corrected :( At the last Alva race last year Div 3 K1M was inquorate, my unfactored C1M time was faster than both lads, one of whom was promoted the previous day, and the other ha...

On the question of the divisions overall competitive quality there are obviously some serious issues. I realise this is only a snap shot and more events need to be taken into account but with just a quick look at last weeks premier event at Lee Valley it can be seen how quickly performance tails of...

It seems to me as a relative newcomer to slalom that there are a number of issues that have built up presumably over some time: - In-season promotion has caused div 1 to fill up - In season promotion means that good paddlers don't stay in division for a whole year, which means others have less chanc...

It is really very simple but incredibly expensive to check 50's Each competitor needs a unique RFID tag in their helmet which is coupled to DGPS (or whatever the latest highest accuracy variant is), each pole needs a proximity sensor and DGPS in the bottom and to be linked to a computer which can tr...

People repeating gates in official practice at Tully was a problem and at times you may have noticed the safety team yelling and waving at competitors to move downstream because the eddies were getting crowded and there were some near misses. I did have a conversation with someone on Saturday along ...

You posted the rest of the section in your event thread, and reading through it seems simple enough to me, although the waiting list itself does seem to be implied, and optional :) Closing date is the Friday 2 weeks before the event - in your case 1st July. All entries received are recorded in date ...

I'll up at Tully on Friday. To be honest I'm not going to get much done until after Tully, I've got a lot on this week. Dberriman's post gave me an idea, I just checked the start list for Tully and the only paddler on your list not entered is Alistair. I'm sure it's not ideal but if you haven't bee...

Jim W, are you the dude in the dry suit in the C1 who capsized in practice and then carried right on? Guilty as charged. Because you are awesome. I didn't feel awesome, I felt I had lost ground against the lads I raced at the end of last year! Despite the changing room being so close, I'm not sure ...

Ooh, I've been deliberating about entering because I had something else on that weekend that I didn't want to decline, fingers crossed the new dates will work better for me!

So, the emphasis needs to shift to the clubs to ensure they train both competitors and some parents in rescue techniques, preferably encouraging some of the parents to start paddling and learn to act as safety/rescue cover during club sessions, and then encourage them to put a creek boat on the car ...

I'm a bit shocked to be reading this, and I hope it is divisional/location trending and not all encompassing - certainly at the events I have been to in lower divisions I haven't seen there being a problem with paddlers not waiting, just the odd one or 2 that forgets, or tries to follow an instructi...

These are really good points that organisers / slalom committee may have drifted out of touch with (for example, I would never have realised that there was a problem with practice at Stone if JoS hadn't mentioned it because I'm comfortable in a free for all like that). I'm just wondering, what do th...

i.e. draw cards out of a hat? We used to run kite buggy races with no helpers at all; sailing master, scorer, and when necessary marshalls were all drawn out of a hat for each race. Mind you, that got complicated, anyone drawn to officiate got their seasonal average for the races they officiated, bu...