Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

The Slalom Committee has set up working parties for:
• Communications,
• Kayak Cross,
• Officials recruitment and retention,
• Participation,
• SUP,
• Volunteer recruitment and retention.
Interested in helping? you can volunteer through https://bit.ly/2023SlalomGroups

If you are coming to the ACM bring a mug please. There are some well used British Canoeing communal mugs and I will have some old polystyrene cups. But it would be better for the environment to use reusable mugs.

If you are not coming, why not?

See you on Saturday week.

This is a motion from two clubs so the committee has no power to veto it or any part of it. What the committee is doing is proposing an amendment, well two amendments. The ACM has to decide to accept the amendments, or reject them. Then the motion will be voted on. Clubs can also put amendments if t...

Each year I try to make a post for each motion to the ACM. Aiming to allow discussion and debate before the ACM. Also to make the ACM business available to anyone who is not in close contact with the club slalom rep. I also ask Nick to post the information on canoeslalom.co.uk Remember the ACM is op...

If so you need to be on the slalom committee mailing list. You can sign up for this at http://eepurl.com/bEQI0f Clubs that are registered with the Secretary automatically get entered onto the list. If you think you should be gettng information for your club and you are not, please email me - or just...

Yes folks it's that time again, so I have posted teh motions here, as well as circulating the ACM Agenda. I have tried to reflect the rule changes using bold italic underline for eay additions, or colours for the harder ones. Please note an erratum in teh Agenda (about to be reissued) The Ed Ecclest...

Proposed and seconded by The Sharks Canoe Club To ensure every Veteran racer achieves points proportional to their own best score, and of different value to other veteran racers with different best scores in the same event. The introduction of Difficulty Factor in the calculation of Veterans Points...

Proposed and seconded by The Sharks Canoe Club This will be withdrawn if the motion above fails With the aim of improved inclusivity, this motion aims to incentivise older athletes to race through provision of the reward of recognition of UK champions by age category, which is not possible currently...

There are paddlers that take up C1 late and their progress or ability in C1 is out paced by their ranking in K1. For them to race C1 in a division just below their K1 is not appropriate and if enforced would be demotivating and potentially unsafe. 6.4.3 Changing Event Any athlete wishing to compete ...

Currently in inquorate events points awarded will be those given to the athlete in the corresponding Men’s Kayak event whose score matches the athletes modified score, which is calculated by dividing by the following factor and rounding down to the accuracy of the competition. Our observations are t...

The rules currently exclude a competition being run for division 1 and premier on the same day or indeed Division 1 and 2. The committee has posited this motion and the current draft calendar assumes that this will be accepted. This was introduced when the numbers entering these races precluded runn...

Committee Amendment Whilst supporting the principle, this is untried and the committee proposes that this is held for the next ACM. A series of Open ‘ plastic’ races should be held, or a mechanism of identifying people paddling plastic boats in ranking races be developed to enable the approach to b...

Proposed by Mold Canoe Club Seconded by Wyedean Canoe Club As many of us are aware our sport is in need of modernisation to allow and encourage greater participation. The introduction of Kayak Cross has hopefully encouraged the participation of other paddlers into the sport, although at the minute i...

Membership classes and names have changed through all home nations. With different rights associated with the different classes, and names, of membership. This leaves organisers with an uncertain position and difficulty of proof. This motion seeks to simplify the position in the rules, whilst the ho...

References to ‘Yearbook’ need revision for context with no yearbook now being produced. 5.2.1.a This is the format to be used if no other format is listed in the yearbook calendar . Each athlete has two timed race runs. The final result for each event in the competition is in order of their best run...