Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Firstly I would agree that making kids cry is a part of sport, and indeed growing up. A blunt way of putting it maybe - perhaps better is that it's only sense of failure that gives you sense of achievement. In terms of open events - I as a competitor welcome it, although for a different reason. Joh...

I'm not sure where all this uncertainty comes from. We seem to be trying to clarify the rules when I don't see any ambiguity. When I started doing gate judging with a section judge this is how the rules were and this is how it worked: Both judges view the gate indpendently, from different viewpoint...

There's been many a time where I've hit poles with the boat when flat in the water but generally I'd say due to slack appearing in the lines or perhaps water levels changing - more a problem I would say (maybe outside Prem) than being deliberately set low. I think by enlarge most courses the height...

Try being 90kg! Yes I need to lose a few kg but it's mainly leg muscle... Seriously though it's just the way it is - if you're big then slalom isn't so easy as if you're small but there's a few bigger people who seem to do ok. You could say rugby is discriminating against small people. Generally be...

No there's not a lot of difference between a climbing helmet and a watersports one (although I wouldn't want to wear my climbing helmet on the water), but that's not the point of the change. The change is to clarify the rule that the CE mark must be a watersports one. After all my bike helmet has a...

I'm sure Campbell will be happy that he's been called a true gent but not sure what he'll make of being called English... Anyhow yes this is all a bit sad that our sport has been brought to a level where the lawyers decide the outcome. What can we do to stop it again? Well videoing at this level is...

I think we have to get away from thinking of the good old days - they're gone. I paddled in Div 2 in the mid 90's and yes it was a good place to be. Getting promoted from Div 3 wasn't something you could really do without training and there were more bigger water sites. But we can't magic those day...

Over the course of the weekend I came to the same conclusion Anne - open events are the first logical step in a direction that would suit me (and I hope others). I have neither lots of time, money or and I do have other commitments, and this is exactly why open's are a good idea. If an open was ava...

There's lots of very differing views on free practice, aggregate runs, number of div 1 events, single events/double events, team runs, etc. I can't see an agreement in all of this. It seems to me Div 1 and 2 are the centre of the arguments - not many see much wrong with Prem and Div 3 and 4. Howeve...

With the will to reduce the number of Div 1 races there was always going to be casualties on the calendar. Personally I'm not sure of the need for this - only a handful of top people chasing promotion attend all and the number or races is being reduced to make less people get promoted. The net effe...

Many would prefer to see structured practice in the form of team events. I would like to see the evidence for this. I don't believe you'll find many Div 1's at all who will agree with this statement. Personally as somebody who is bottom 2/3 of Div 1 (although according to the rankings somewhere tow...

I am a div 1, and fall into the enjoyment category, rather than the en route to Prem category. However my enjoyment, like probably most of my "cohorts", is to test myself against the course, and indeed the competition. If I wanted to do some gates and not compete then I would do that (which I do), ...

1) I actually liked the idea of best 2 from 3, but am happy to drop it if I'm in the minority. 2) I'm happy for Div 2 to move to best 5. Including one big water venue is a nice idea in principle, but are we going to end up with certain Div 2's who aren't happy on big water deliberately staying in D...

If you look at the facts: 4 K1M were promoted during the weekend to Prem - was it because of the easy water at Llandysul? Well no - these were the top 4 from HPP at the previous race. I'm sure a few people were slightly higher (and lower) than usual because of the low water conditions but by enlarg...

Slalom is slalom and polo is polo. I certainly wouldn't want 160 minutes race time on a slalom - I'd never be able to get out of bed come Monday! I like the idea of increasing race time therefore experience for the lower divisions by perhaps going to best 2 runs from 3 but esentially we do slalom b...