Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Just to let people know that from this week - Canoe-Tec Ltd are taking over the UK distribution of Galasport products. We are also now distributors for Peak UK and will continue to supply Hiko Sport products. If you would like to purchase anything from these manufacturers or are looking for advice o...

Jim W is correct - its more about a paddler using a boat that is the correct size for their size and weight. Would you put someone with child size 4 feet in a pair of adult size 10 football boots and try and teach them to dribble a football ? Of course not. If a new paddler learns to paddle in a boa...

Seems silly to me that a little plastic or aluminium fin stuck on the bottom of your boat is considered a danger in a sport where there is the potential to swim down the Graveyard or Bourg and all the natural hazards you accept by doing this...... Stand up board surfers have fins on their boards and...

** latest update**

We are not running the Tuesday 27th session now so have no session available pre selection week- apologies to all who have shown interest.

Thanks

David

** update **

We now only have sessions on :-

Tue, 27 Mar 2018

10:00 until 11:00

13:00 until 14:00

Please get in touch if you would like to join in.

david@protoshape.co.uk

Hi, We have slots reserved on the LV Olympic course for slalom training at the following times in the week leading up to GB selection weekend 2018 and have capacity for any paddlers wishing to join in Mon 26 Mar 2018 10:00 until 11:00 15:30 until 16:30 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:00 until 11:00 13:00 until ...

Hi, We have booked training slots at LV and have up to 10 spaces available for slalom paddlers on the Olympic Course at the following times:- February 2018 Saturday 10th – Tuesday 13th February Sat - Session One - 10-11am Session Two 4-5pm Sun - Session One – 10-11am Session Two 4-5pm Mon – Session ...

I don't think anyone has disagreed with giving the host division priority so the only thing to decide is how long to make the priority/late entry deadline. I don't think it matters to the paddlers whether its 2, 4 or 6 weeks - whatever it is as long as it's well communicated and understood - paddler...

Yep agree - no point in going over things and apportioning blame. I'm sure decisions were made with the best intentions. Lets try and move forward constructively and come up with a better system. Andy N's idea of some sort of survey would be useful to determine what peoples opinions are on how to mo...

One year ago my son failed to get an entry for the McConkey Prem because he missed the 4-week priority entry deadline - lesson was learnt and all entries now submitted more than 4 weeks in advance. This is not a new rule this season. In the "Time to limit or split Premier Division ?" thread, Nick h...

I think somewhere along the line we have forgotten that racing in Premier is supposed to be the top flight of domestic racing. It is supposed to be the elite end of the sport - things have swung too far in the direction of development. We are opening up Premier races to anyone in Div 1, potentially ...

Some good points being raised by Zac and great to have the view of a younger current paddler and coach. I agree that challenging courses can be set on any type of water and it would be interesting to see how well this would be received or would it be dismissed as "not really proper Premier standard ...

I agree that in 2015 a lot of Div 1s filled up really early and appeared very over subscribed. However, I believe that this was at least in part "panic-buying" and that in most cases by the time the races came round there had been an unprecedented number of cancellations and most paddlers did get t...

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We already have 2 first divisions, and now it looks like we need another first division in between them - what do we propose, pick another language, call it Div Erster? Surely to make this work sensibly we need to renumber divisions 1 through 4 so 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3, 3 becomes 4, and then the...