Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Anyone else thinking of going to the 2009 European Vet Champs? I see free beer is once again on offer for competitors!!! Course pics etc www.rakokanoe.cz Training Thursday/Friday Morning Giant Slalom Friday Afternoon (thats my sort of slalom!) Individual Slalom Saturday Team Slalom Sunday Its an ea...

I think all the pole heights were legal, it was nice to see them that low IMHO, made it a real challenge and perhaps made it a bit more even for those of us who aren't that good at necking gates! I hit gate 13 first run, didn't do it second time. Perhaps I wouldn't have first time if I'd actually m...

I wasn't suggesting disqualification its just what other sports do, given the cost of attending an event it would be very harsh, and often it is just simply a matter of missing a gate and not being able to get back. Thus a suggestion, how about the minimum being a 50 but the rules being changed to ...

Sounds like a good solution to me - seen this a lot - particularly in lower divisions and even means people get promoted having missed gates. I don't think missing a gate on purpose can be deemed to be part of the sport, in fact I'd say it was very unsporting and in most sports you would be disqual...

You can't expect prices to respond instantly, from what I can see there is only a slight improvement in the exchange rate since its drop. A couple of week ago it was 1.05, its now around 1.11, a year ago it was more like 1.35 So a 1350 euro boat a year ago would have been a £1000, 2 weeks ago it wo...

Its bad enough setting a course for 2 Divisions as it is, lose another division and the spread of standards would be too great - probably too great even in one division to set a course that would test the top paddlers without trashing half the field. What we need to do is recuit more paddlers to sl...

Wish I'd never mentioned this upside. :( I really can't see the paddlers I am thinking about (without insulting them) preventing anyone getting promoted. If they are winning then its only because others aren't capable of getting promoted (yet). But as with any rule change you have to see how it goe...

You can't stop it unfortunately. Its only the same as racing until you are very close on promotion and then stopping or ensure you batter a few gates/miss a gate to ensure you don't get promoted. I know a number of paddlers this year that did enough races without getting enough points to ensure the...

Just thought of another positive of this. There are quite a few paddlers who don't want to get promoted but do. With this system they can still race and be ranked high in their division (even 5 wins) but if they don't race at the Cat A events (which its unlikely they will anyway) then they won't ge...